List of major crimes in the United Kingdom

Columns: Date | Name | No . of Deaths | Location | Details
1955 | The Ruth Ellis case | 1 | Hampstead , London , England | Ruth Ellis , a London nightclub manager , shot and killed her fiancé David Blakely outside a Hampstead public house on 10 April 1955 . She surrendered to police upon their arrival . Despite evidence of the involvement of another lover , Desmond Cussen , she was tried and convicted of murder for which she would be the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom , later in 1955 | 1961 | The James Hanratty case ( The A6 Murder ) | 1 | Clophill , Bedfordshire , England | In August 1961 , an unidentified man abducted scientist Michael Gregsten and his mistress Valerie Storie . The man forced them to drive him around suburban North London before having them stop at a lay-by on the A6 where he shot the pair . Storie survived the attack but was left paralysed . A police investigation led to the eventual arrest of car thief James Hanratty . Although later convicted of the murder , the Hanratty case has since been disputed . Hanratty was hanged in April 1962 , one of the last people to be executed in Britain before the abolition of the death penalty three years later | 1973 | The Stephen Downing case | 1 | Bakewell , Peak District , Central England | This case involved the conviction and imprisonment in 1974 of a 17-year-old council worker , Stephen Downing , for the murder of 32-year-old legal secretary , Wendy Sewell , in the town of Bakewell , Derbyshire the previous year . Downing served 27 years in prison before his conviction was overturned in 2002 ; he had been ineligible to apply for parole at an earlier stage as he had always denied the murder . The case is thought to be the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history , and attracted worldwide media attention as the Bakewell Tart murder | 1974 | The Lord Lucan case | 1 | London , England | Lord Lucan 's nanny Sandra Rivett was found beaten to death in the basement of Lucan 's London home . Lucan subsequently disappeared and was never found , despite a large-scale manhunt . He was officially identified as the murderer in an inquest in 1975 and declared dead in 1999 , although his body has never been found and no facts about his supposed death have ever been established | 1975 | The Murder of Lesley Molseed | 1 | Rochdale , Greater Manchester , England | Lesley Susan Molseed ( born Lesley Susan Anderson ) was an 11-year-old schoolgirl from Turf Hill , who was murdered on 5 October 1975 on Rishworth Moor between Rochdale and Ripponden in West Yorkshire . Stefan Ivan Kiszko , a 23-year-old local tax clerk of Ukrainian and Slovenian parentage , was wrongly convicted of her sexual assault and murder in 1976 and spent 16 years in prison before he was finally released in 1992 . He died the following year , aged 41 . The circumstances of his ordeal was described by one MP as the worst miscarriage of justice of all time . Ronald Castree , a retired local taxi driver , was eventually found guilty of the crime on 12 November 2007 and jailed for life | 1979 | The Murder of Teresa de Simone | 1 | Southampton , England | One of the longest cases of a miscarriage of justice in British history . A three-year police investigation resulted in the arrest of Sean Hodgson , a pathological liar who confessed to numerous crimes , including ones he could not have committed and crimes that did not appear to have happened . Hodgson was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of the murder in 1982 . After serving 27 years he was exonerated and released in 2009 . DNA analysis of semen samples from the original crime scene showed that they could not have been his . In 2009 , on the basis of DNA from his exhumed body , police named a deceased man , David Lace , as the likely killer . Lace had confessed to police in 1983 that he had killed de Simone but officers refused to believe him . Lace committed suicide in 1988 | 1986 | The murder of Linda Cook | 1 | Portsmouth , England | Portsmouth barmaid Linda Cook was murdered in December 1986 and Michael Shirley , an 18-year-old Royal Navy sailor , was wrongly convicted of the crime . His conviction was eventually quashed in 2003 by the Court of Appeal after DNA recovered was proven not to be his . It was the first occasion in which the Criminal Cases Review Commission supported an appeal on the basis of newly available DNA evidence . Cook 's murder remains unsolved

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1961 | Rochdale , Greater Manchester | murder of Stephen Lawrence | The murder of Katie Rackliff