List of major crimes in the United Kingdom

Columns: Date | Name | No . of Deaths | Location | Details
1963-1965 | The Ian Brady and Myra Hindley case ( The Moors Murders ) | 5 | Oldham , Lancashire , England | Five children were killed in the area of Greater Manchester over a two-year period by serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley . After being turned in by Hindley 's brother-in-law David Smith , Brady was found guilty of three murders and Hindley of two at their trial in May 1966 , for which they received life sentences . They admitted the two other murders 20 years later . Hindley remained in prison until her death in November 2002 , while Brady was held at a secure mental hospital until his death in 2017 | 1968-1969 | The Bible John Murders | 3 ( ? ) | Glasgow , Scotland | Three women were found strangled between 1968 and 1969 by an unidentified serial killer known only as Bible John . Although police investigated the murders for over 20 years , the murderer was never identified although serial killer Peter Tobin is a suspect | 1973-1978 | The Robert Maudsley case ( Hannibal the Cannibal ) | 4 | Robert John Maudsley was a serial killer responsible for the murders of four people . Jailed for life for a single murder in 1975 , he committed three of the murders in prison . He was reported to have eaten part of the brain of one of three men he killed in jail , which earned him the nickname Hannibal the Cannibal among the British press | 1974-1975 | The Patrick Mackay case | 5-12 ? | Dartford , Kent , England | Mackay was a serial killer who confessed to murdering 11 people in London and Kent | 1975-1981 | The Peter Sutcliffe Murders ( The Yorkshire Ripper ) | 13-20+ | Yorkshire , England | Peter Sutcliffe , known to the press as the Yorkshire Ripper , murdered 13 women and attacked seven others in the north of England between 1975 and 1980 . Captured in January 1981 and sentenced to life imprisonment later that year , he was imprisoned at Parkhurst Prison until his transfer to Broadmoor Hospital later in the 1980s after he was violently assaulted by another inmate | 1978 | The Peter Dinsdale killings | 26 | Hull , England | Dinsdale was one of Britain 's most prolific killers . He confessed to a total of 11 acts of arson , and was convicted of 26 counts of manslaughter . 11 of these were overturned on appeal . Lee was imprisoned for life in 1981 | 1978-1983 | The Dennis Nilsen murders | 15+ | London | Dennis Nilsen murdered several men over a period of five years , including foreign students as well as local homeless men and male prostitutes , who were lured to his apartment and strangled before being dismembered . A number of Nilsen 's victims have never been identified

Example questions:
How old was the girl that was murdered by the English serial killer Levi Bellfield ? | When was the Scottish serial killer and paedophile who committed murders in the united kingdom beginning in 1982 convicted ? | Where did the young brunette victims meet the unidentified serial murderer who strangled three women between 1968 and 1969 ? | What was the address of the residence where the murders were committed by an English serial killer and necrophile over a 10 year period beginning in 1943 ? | Where was the body of the English serial killer and necrophile murderer 's wife found at the crime committed in Notting Hill ?

Answers:
13 | 19 May 1994 | Barrowland Ballroom | 10 Rillington Place , Notting Hill , London | beneath the floorboards of the front room