List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom

This is an incomplete list of unsolved known murders in the United Kingdom. Victims believed to have been murdered by the same perpetrator(s) are grouped together. This does not include the approximate total of 3,000 unsolved murders in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

Pre-Second World War

Year	Name of victim(s)	Location body found	Notes
1536	Robert Pakington	London	Probably the first murder with a handgun in London.
1752	Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure	Appin	"Appin Murder". At Appin, in the west of Scotland, in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745, inspired events in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped.
1759	George Burrington	St James's Park, Westminster	Burrington, late Governor of North Carolina, was retrieved from the Canal in St James's Park on 22 February 1759. He had been beaten and robbed.
1817	Mary Ashford	Sutton Coldfield	Mary Ashford's body was retrieved from a marl pit on the morning of 27 May 1817. Abraham Thornton, a local bricklayer who had been in her company, was charged with murder and rape but acquitted at a trial at Warwick on 8 August of that year, and an attempt to retry him on an appeal of murder brought by Mary's brother failed in early 1818.
1857	Emile L'Angelier	Glasgow	His lover Madeleine Smith was accused of poisoning him with arsenic. The verdict was "not proven".
1866	Janet Rogers	Mount Steward Farm, near Perth, Scotland	On 30 March 1866, Janet Henderson Rogers, age 55, was clubbed to death with an axe while visiting her brother Charles Henderson on his farm, and ploughman James Crichton was charged with her murder. At trial, the jury returned a verdict of not proven.
1876	Charles Bravo	Balham, London	Known as the Charles Bravo Murder or the Murder at the Priory. Charles Bravo, a lawyer, was poisoned with antimony: he took three days to die but gave no indication of the source of the poison. No-one was ever charged for the crime.
1881	P.C. Fred Atkins	Kingston Hill	Police Constable 356 V Fred Atkins was shot while on patrol at The Knoll, Kingston Hill, Kingston, in 1881.
1888–1902	Fairy Fay, Annie Millwood, Emma Smith, Martha Tabram, Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Jane Kelly, Rose Mylett, Elizabeth Jackson, Alice McKenzie, Frances Coles	Whitechapel, London	Murders and attempted murders mentioned in connection with Jack the Ripper.
December 1888	John Gill	Bradford, West Yorkshire	8-year-old John Gill's body was found in Manningham Lane in Bradford on 28 December 1888. His throat had been cut, his abdomen cut open and stabbed, his arms and legs hacked off and his ears removed. Milkman William Barrett was arrested for the murder but a Magistrate dismissed the charges. Newspapers suggested a connection to the Jack the Ripper murders, but doctors found the boy had been drugged.
10 February 1889	Louisa Smith	Lewisham, London	Prostitute Louisa Smith was found in Algernon Road, Lewisham, with a severe fractured skull caused by a blow with a blunt instrument.
1898	Thomas Webb	College Farm, Finchley	Known as the Finchley Murder. Thomas Webb, head cowman was found fatally shot outside his cottage at College Farm. Mysteriously, before his death Thomas had a strange presentiment that one night he would be shot when looking round the farm.
1902	Rose Harsent	Peasenhall, Suffolk	Known as the Peasenhall Murder. William Gardiner, a married man who was thought to be having an affair with the pregnant victim, was twice tried inconclusively and then set free.
1905	Mary Sophia Money	Merstham, Surrey	Body found in the Merstham railway tunnel. The post-mortem showed a scarf had been thrust into her mouth and marks were discovered on the tunnel wall showing Miss Money had been thrown to her death from a moving train.
1907	Emily Dimmock	Camden Town, London	Known as the Camden Town Murder. Prostitute Emily Dimmock was found with her throat cut. Robert Wood was accused and acquitted after a brilliant defence by Edward Marshall Hall.
1908	Marion Gilchrist	Glasgow	Marion Gilchrist was an affluent 82-year-old woman who lived in the West End of Glasgow. She had been bludgeoned to death and the only thing taken was a diamond brooch. Oscar Slater was suspected as he had gone to America and had tried to pawn a brooch. He was wrongfully convicted in 1909 and this conviction was quashed in 1928: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was prominent in securing his release.
1908	Caroline Luard	Ightham, Kent	Known as the Seal Chart Murder. Mrs Luard was shot in a summerhouse in the middle of a wood near Sevenoaks, Kent. Her husband was accused by some, and he later committed suicide in despair. Later it was suggested that murderer John Dickman, hanged for a shooting on a train in 1910, was the guilty party.
1909	George Harry Storrs	Gorse Hall, Stalybridge	Storrs was the owner of Gorse Hall and was a prominent business man in the town. There were suggestions that he was the lover of his friends' au pair and that she had become pregnant due to the liaison. She later committed suicide. His business interests also made many enemies for Storrs and after one attack he had a bell installed to warn police of intruders. On the night of the 1 November 1909, an intruder forced his way into the house and in the scuffle with Storrs, stabbed him 15 times. Two men were later tried independently of each other for the killing, but neither of them were convicted.
1911	Joseph Wilson	Lintz Green railway station	The sixty-year-old stationmaster, Joseph Wilson, was shot when returning home after closing his office at the station. Although he did not die instantly, when questioned, Wilson was unable to communicate who had shot him. Railway porter Samuel Atkinson was charged but no evidence was offered against him.
18 October 1913	Mary Speir Gunn	Northbank Cottage, Portencross, North Ayrshire	Six shots fired through a living-room window at night. The other two occupants of the room were injured, but not killed. No-one was ever charged or prosecuted for the crime.
1917	Vera Glasspool	Owslebury, near Winchester	On 11 July 1917, 15-year-old Vera May Glasspool was found in woodland close to Longwood House, where she worked as a scullery maid. She had been strangled and stabbed. Suspicion centred on the army camp at Hazeley Down and the police offered a £50 reward for information which might lead to the arrest of the guilty person or persons.
1919	Bella Wright	Little Stretton, near Leicester	Known as the Green Bicycle Case as the victim was last seen with a man owning one. A green bicycle was found in a canal and its owner Ronald Light (1885–1975) traced. He stood trial, but was found not guilty of Wright's murder, primarily due to his defence counsel, Sir Edward Marshall Hall KC, who had Light in the witness box admitting to every allegation made against him, except her murder.
1920	Florence Nightingale Shore	Sussex	Shore, the goddaughter of Florence Nightingale, was found on a train at Bexhill, Sussex, with serious head injuries and died four days later.
1920	Mabel Greenwood	Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire	Harold Greenwood (1874–1929) was accused of poisoning his wife Mabel with arsenic. He was acquitted at Carmarthen Assizes in 1920 after a defence by Edward Marshall Hall.
1931	Evelyn Foster	Otterburn, Northumbria	Foster ran a successful car hire business and on returning from one journey on 7 January 1931, picked up a 26-year-old man wearing a tweed suit, overcoat and bowler hat. He assaulted Foster, threw her into the back of the cab and then covered her with a rug which he doused with petrol and set alight. Although horrifically burned, Foster was able to crawl away from the burning vehicle and when found she was able to describe her attacker but later succumbed to her injuries the following day.
1931	Julia Wallace	Liverpool	Known as The Wallace Case. Julia's husband William Herbert Wallace was convicted, but this was quashed when he successfully appealed. Recent books have named a suspect.
1931	Vera Page	Notting Hill, London	10-year-old Vera Page's body was found in undergrowth on Addison Road in Notting Hill, London. It was believed she had been murdered elsewhere and then transported to this location.
1931	Hubert Chevis	Aldershot, Hampshire	Chevis was poisoned after eating partridge laced with strychnine.
1932	Queenie Winifred Harman (née Hicks)	St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex	Aged 17, Queenie was bludgeoned to death at her home. Her husband, Arthurd Edward Harman, was accused but never convicted. He died two years later, aged 25, after wandering onto the railway lines near Polegate. The case for murder appears to have ended at the police court (magistrates court) level as police had no solid evidence. Mr. Harman worked for John Carter, haulier, and had been to work on the fateful day in July 1932. The police seemed to want the case closed rapidly and never followed any other possible leads.
1934	Unknown female	Brighton	Torso found in a trunk at Brighton Station. This is known as the Brighton Trunk Crime no. 1. See Brighton trunk murders.
1939	George Stapleton	Greenfield, Bedfordshire	Bludgeoned to death with a fence post. Stapleton, a farm worker aged 66, was attacked on Friday, 21 April 1939 while walking from Ruxox Farm along a bridleway in Greenfield to his lodgings, the White Hart Inn in Flitton, and his wages stolen. The police report said the attack was maniacally brutal. [1][2][3]

1 September 1939–1969

Year	Name of victim(s)	Location body found	Notes
1943	Wych Elm Bella	Wychbury Hill, Hagley, Worcestershire	Skeletal remains of a woman were discovered inside a hollow tree in April 1943. Police established the victim had died approximately 18 months earlier but could not identify her. In 1944, the message "Who put Bella in the Wych Elm? - Hagley Wood" was found painted on a wall in Birmingham. Various theories about the identity of the victim and her killer have been proposed.
1945	Charles Walton	Meon Hill, Upper Quinton, Warwickshire	On Valentines Day 1945 the body of local farm labourer Charles Walton was found murdered with his own trouncing hook and pinned to the ground with a pitchfork. The body had had a large cross engraved into the chest and neck which caused many rumours to circulate linking the murder to witchcraft or satanism.
1946	Muriel Drinkwater	Penllergaer, Swansea	Drinkwater, a 12-year-old schoolgirl, was raped and shot in the woods in Penllergaer, Swansea. The case became known as the Little Red Riding Hood murder.
1946	Margaret Cook	Narrow passage near Carnaby Street	Margaret was shot dead outside the Blue Lagoon nightclub. Nobody was charged with her murder at the time, but Scotland Yard detectives interviewed a suspect in 2015 after he confessed.
1948	Evan David Harris	Swansea Docks	Retired Industrial Chemist who was a nightwatchman at Consolidated Fisheries.
1948	Terence McNamara	46 Richmond Street Middlesbrough	Terence was a 22-month-old infant who was murdered in his own home whilst his mother was out at work. His father had died in 1947.
1949	Emily Armstrong	London	Emily Armstrong was the victim of an unsolved murder in which she had been beaten to death and later found at her place of employment, a dry cleaner's shop on St John's Wood High Street. Police later determined she had been killed roughly an hour before her body was found at around 4:00 pm. A post-mortem examination also showed that her skull had been shattered by at least 22 blows from a blunt object, later believed to be a claw hammer.
1949	Gertrude O'Leary	Stokes Croft, Bristol	In the summer of 1949 the vicious murder of a well-liked, 66-year-old local licensee – Gertrude O'Leary – shocked the residents of Stokes Croft to the core. Her killer was never found.
April 1954	Olive May Bennett	Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire	On Saturday, 24 April 1954, Olive May Bennett, 45, was seen drinking alone in the Red Horse Hotel in Bridge Street. Shortly before midnight she was seen again, standing outside the hotel as the streets around her emptied. She had led a sheltered life until, suddenly in middle-age, she changed. She started smoking and drinking, taking endless pains with her make-up, drawing large sums of money from her Post Office bank account, and filling her address book with the names of men she was meeting. The next morning her body was found wedged against an obstruction on the banks of the River Avon. She had been strangled with a long woollen scarf and her body was weighted with a 56 lb. tombstone wrenched from a riverside churchyard. In 1962 two women told police that on the night of the murder they were in the churchyard with two men, one of whom threatened to push them in the river and weigh them down with a tombstone. The men have never been traced.
September 1954	Jean Townsend	Ruislip, Middlesex	On 15 September 1954, 21-year-old Jean Mary Townsend was found murdered on what was then waste land near to the junction of Victoria Road and Angus Drive. The autopsy report stated that she had been strangled with her own scarf. In 1982 the Metropolitan Police announced that they were to review their files on the case following some anonymous telephone calls. To this day, no one has been charged with Jean's killing and it remains unsolved. Britain's National Archives have indicated that the police files on the case are likely to be made available for public inspection in 2031.
May 1956	The Ormesher Sisters	Ormskirk, Lancashire	Two elderly sisters, who ran a sweetshop in a small market town, were murdered in their own home. Despite national media coverage and an extensive investigation, in which all of the adult male population of the town were fingerprinted, the identity of the murderer or murderers has never been established.
December 1957/January 1958	Anne Noblett	Whitwell, Hertfordshire	On the night of 30 December 1957, 17-year-old Anne Noblett alighted a bus on the corner of Lower Luton Road and Cherry Tree Lane in Wheathampstead and began the short walk home to Marshalls Heath. A month later her partially disrobed body was found 7 miles away in Rose Grove Wood near Whitwell. Known as the "Deep Freeze Murder", mystery surrounds the circumstances over her abduction and disappearance due to the frozen condition her body was found in and the relatively mild weather at the time. Despite extensive enquiries her killer has never been caught.
1959–1965	1959: Elizabeth Figg 1963: Gwynneth Rees 1964: Hannah Tailford, Irene Lockwood, Helene Barthelemy, Mary Fleming and Margaret McGowan 1965: Bridget O'Hara	West London	'Jack the Stripper' victims.
May 1964	Anne Dunwell	Near Maltby, South Yorkshire	On 7 May 1964, the body of 13-year-old Anne Dunwell was found strangled on a manure heap. She had been sexually assaulted. It is believed she was killed the previous evening after leaving her aunt's house to catch a bus to be with her grandmother. Despite a reported DNA 'breakthrough' in 2006, Anne's murderer has never been identified.
October 1965	Elsie Frost	Wakefield, West Yorkshire	On 9 October 1965, the body of 14-year-old Elsie Frost was found with fatal stab wounds. A subsequent investigation turned up one suspect who was later released. After this there was no further investigation and details of the case were made exempt from a Freedom of Information request. The siblings of Elsie filed an FOI request when the original exemption date was coming to an end, only to find the exemption had been extended until 2060. The case was reopened in 2015 after a series of reports on BBC Radio 4. A man in his late seventies was arrested in September 2016 on suspicion of murder, more than 50 years after Elsie's death.
November 1966	Helen Davidson	Amersham, Buckinghamshire	On 9 November 1966, popular GP 49-year-old Dr Helen Davidson was battered to death in dense woodland in Hodgemoor Wood a few miles from her Amersham home. She had been bird-watching and exercising her dog. Her body was found the next day, but nobody has been convicted of her murder.
December 1966	Mavis Hudson	Chesterfield, Derbyshire	15-year-old Mavis was last seen alive on 26 December 1966. The following day her body was found in a derelict building. She had been strangled. In spite of appeals on national TV, no arrest was ever made and the case remains unsolved.
January 1967	Bernard Oliver	Tattingstone, Ipswich, Suffolk	Bernard Oliver, 17, disappeared on 6 January 1967 and his dismembered body was found in suitcases near to Tattingstone, Ipswich 10 days later. No-one has been charged over his murder but Suffolk Police stated in January 2017 that DNA evidence may help to yield some clues 50 years on.
May 1967	Keith Lyon	Woodingdean, East Sussex	12 year-old Keith Lyon was stabbed to death on a bridleway that links the villages of Ovingdean and Woodingdean, near Brighton on 6 May 1967. Despite arrests in connection with Keith's death as recently as 2006, no-one has ever been charged with his murder.
October 1967	Herbert Wilkinson	Middlewich, Cheshire	In October 1967, the body of a solicitor was discovered in a shallow grave by the side of the Trent & Mersey Canal. 54-year-old Herbert Wilkinson, a lonely bachelor, allegedly with homosexual tendencies, who, seven months earlier, had been struck off by the Law Society because of problems with his practice in Middlewich.
November 1967	Rita Ellis	RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire	On 12 November 1967, the body of Rita Ellis was found partially hidden under leaves and foliage at Rowborough Copse, part of the RAF Halton Estate. Ellis, who was in the WRAF and worked in the catering department of the RAF hospital on the camp, had been beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled. She was last seen on the previous evening (11 November). The case was re-opened in 2017 for a second time, although new DNA techniques have meant that the police now have a DNA profile of the killer.
1968–1969	Patricia Docker, Jemima McDonald & Helen Puttock	Glasgow	"Bible John" victims.
1969	Annie Walker	Heather, Leicestershire	Beaten to death in her home. By re-examining evidence gathered at the scene, police have now been able to extract DNA samples which would positively identify the murderer, but have yet to find a match for the killer's DNA profile.

1970s

Year	Name of victim(s)	Location body found	Notes
8 March 1970	Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb	Mere, Cheshire	An 18-year-old last seen hitch-hiking from London to Manchester. Her body was discovered six days later by a farmer in Square Wood, near Knutsford. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death with an electrical cord.
10 March 1970	Susan Long	Aylsham, Norfolk	The Norwich Union worker had been out dancing at the Gala Ballroom in Norwich and caught the last bus home to Aylsham. She arrived at around 11:10 pm and began the seven-minute walk to her parents' home, but never arrived. The headlights of a milk-float picked up the shape of her body lying in a pool of rainwater in a lovers' lane the following morning.
31 March 1970	Philip Green	Shirehampton, Bristol	11-year-old Philip Green left his home in Sea Mills to collect golf balls on the nearby Shirehampton golf course. The following day his battered body was found in a wooded area of the course. The case remains unsolved despite one of the biggest police inquiries in the Bristol area, which was assisted by Scotland Yard. In 2010 on the 40th anniversary of his murder, Avon and Somerset Constabulary announced a new forensic investigation of the case that would use DNA profiling.
October 1970	Barbara Mayo	Ault Hucknall near Bolsover, Derbyshire	In October 1970, Barbara Mayo set off from her London home to hitchhike north. Six days later the 24-year-old's body was found in a wood by the north-bound carriageway in view of Hardwick Hall. The teacher had been raped and then strangled. Twenty years later, in 1990, detectives were able to confirm using DNA that Mayo's killer was the same man who had raped and strangled 18-year-old Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb seven months previously.
March 1971	Fred the Head	Burton on Trent, Staffordshire	A policeman found bone fragments near to the River Trent in Burton in March 1971. These fragments were unearthed and in the process revealed a man who was in a kneeling position with his hands tied and wearing pink socks. The only personal effect on him was his wedding ring. In 2017, a DNA analysis led police to believe it could be John Henry Jones from Trevor, near Wrexham in North Wales who had gone missing in 1970. This proved to be incorrect, and neither case has been solved.
25 April 1971	Dorothy Leyden	Collyhurst, Manchester	Dorothy Leyden's body was found hours after she had been to a Jimmy Ruffin concert at the Golden Garter nightclub in Wythenshawe in April 1971. The 17-year-old's body was found on waste ground in Collyhurst. The teenager spent the evening of 24 April 1971 at the concert before heading into central Manchester. At about 02:30, she got out of a taxi she had shared with friends at Piccadilly Gardens bus station and it is thought she decided to walk home. Her body was found the following day behind the now demolished Spread Eagle pub. Previously, it had been thought she may have been murdered by serial killer Trevor Hardy, but this was dismissed in 2008.
May 1971	Rose Lifely	Bournemouth, Hampshire	Miss Rose Lifely was 73 years old when she was stabbed to death in her Northcote Road home between 15 and 17 May 1971, the victim of a "maniacal attack", according to police. Police believed the killer lived in the local area, broke into her home to steal and repeatedly stabbed her when she confronted him. On 25 May, the Evening Times reported that police were hunting for a "cuddly" buxom 18-year-old blonde and two youths, who had gone to second-hand shops in Bournemouth attempting to sell jewellery similar to pieces missing from Lifely's home.
June 1971	Gloria Booth	Ruislip, Middlesex	On the morning of Sunday 13 June, the naked body of Gloria Booth was discovered on a recreation ground off Nairn Road, approximately half a mile from South Ruislip Underground Station and a mile from the scene of the Jean Townsend killing 17 years earlier. Like Jean Townsend, Mrs Booth – a 29-year-old housewife from Ealing – had died from strangulation and it appeared that – as in the Townsend killing – a scarf had been used.
June 1972	Judith Roberts	Tamworth, Staffordshire	A 14-year-old girl was battered to death not far from her family home in Tamworth. A young soldier stationed at Whittington Barracks confessed to the murder and served 25 years in jail. However, he later claimed that his confession was a result of psychological problems he was experiencing at the time; there being no other evidence against him, his conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeal. The real killer remains unknown.
November 1972	Amala Ruth De Vere Whelan	Maida Vale, London	On 12 November 1972, a 22-year-old woman was found dead at her home in Randolph Avenue, Maida Vale, west London. She had been beaten, raped, and strangled, but the subsequent investigation failed to link any suspect to the crime. In January 2017, police issued a fresh appeal for information.
September 1973	Wendy Sewell	Bakewell, Derbyshire	A 32-year-old legal secretary was savagely beaten in a churchyard, and later died of her wounds. The church groundskeeper Stephen Downing was convicted and served 27 years for the murder, but the verdict was eventually overturned on appeal. The case was re-investigated by police, but no further arrests were made.
1974	Glenis Carruthers	Clifton, Bristol	A 20-year-old woman from Amersham was found strangled on Clifton Down after she had left a friend's 21st birthday on Friday 18 January at 10 pm.
1974	Norfolk headless body	Cockley Cley, Norfolk	Concealed in weeds off the Cockley Cley road, near Swaffham, the badly decomposed and headless body of a young woman was found by a farm worker. She was wearing a pink, frilled Marks & Spencer nightdress, but a better clue was the brown plastic sheet in which she was wrapped, bearing the letters NCR (National Cash Register). Only six such sheets were made by a Scottish company between 1962 and 1968, but police never identified the woman, let alone her killer. Today, there is no grave or headstone, just an unmarked spot in a Swaffham churchyard.
1975	Eve Stratford	Leyton, London	Stratford was found dead on 18 March 1975. The Bunny girl who worked at the Playboy Club in Park Lane where she had been pictured with Eric Morecambe and Sid James, had her throat cut between eight and 12 times. She had also been tied up and gagged and was found by her boyfriend lying on the floor in her apartment in Lyndhurst Drive, Leyton, London. In 2007, police found links between Stratford's murder and that of 16-year-old Lynne Weedon. Weedon had been beaten over the head with a blunt object as she took a short-cut to her home in Hounslow six months after Stratford's death. Despite horrific injuries Weedon was alive when found the next morning but died a week later in hospital without regaining consciousness. Both cases were featured on the BBC Crimewatch programme in September 2007, where, thanks to new DNA techniques, it was said they were sexually motivated and were committed by the same person.
1976	Renee and Andrew MacRae	Dalmagarry, Highland	Described as one of the most baffling mysteries in Scottish criminal history, the murder of Renee MacRae and her three-year-old son Andrew, shocked and scandalised the Highlands, and it mesmerised the small, tight-knit community in Inverness. MacRae had planned to spend the weekend in Perthshire with her lover, a married man who was also Andrew's father. On the evening of Friday, 12 November 1976, MacRae left Inverness and headed south on the A9. At ten o'clock that evening a train driver reported a car ablaze on a lay-by adjacent to the A9 trunk road at Dalmagarry. The bodies have never been found, though traces of blood matching Renee and Andrew's blood type were discovered in the boot of the burnt out car. Attention focused on the nearby Dalmagarry quarry, where a senior member of the police believed they were buried. A 2004 excavation of the area found nothing of interest, however a local farmer has opined that the bodies could be buried under the A9, which was in the middle of a major programme of upgrading at the time of the disappearance. The farmer called for the road to be excavated at the spot where a radar survey he commissioned found "anomalies".
13 January 1978	Beryl Culverwell	Bath	52-year-old welfare worker Beryl Culverwell was found dead in the garage of her home in Widcombe Hill, Bath. She had been stabbed 21 times and then bludgeoned to death with a shotgun. Her body was tied with twine, although there were no signs of violent struggle. The telephone wires in the house were cut. The motive of Mrs. Culverwell's murder has never been clearly determined.
7 September 1978	Georgi Markov	London	Agents of the Bulgarian secret police, Darzhavna Sigurnost, assisted by the KGB had previously made two failed attempts to kill Markov before a third attempt succeeded. On 7 September 1978, Markov walked across Waterloo Bridge spanning the River Thames, and was waiting at a bus stop on the other side, when he was jabbed in the calf by a man holding an umbrella. The man apologized and walked away. Markov would later tell doctors that the man had spoken with a foreign accent. The event is recalled as the "Umbrella Murder" with the assassin claimed to be Francesco Gullino, codenamed "Piccadilly".
19 September 1978	Carl Bridgewater	Yew Tree Farm, Kinver, Staffordshire	13-year-old Carl Bridgewater was shot in the head at close range when he disturbed burglars while delivering a newspaper to a house on 19 September 1978. The Bridgewater Four were originally convicted in 1979, but were acquitted in 1997.
12 October 1978	Margaret Frame	Brighton, East Sussex	The body of 34-year-old mother of one, Margaret Frame, is found buried in a shallow grave in woods on the northern outskirts of Brighton ten days after disappearing on 12 October 1978. She had been raped, stabbed in the back and had her throat slit. No-one has ever been charged with her murder.
December 1978	Walter Taylor	Ashby North Lincolnshire	Taylor, 17, was found dead shortly before Christmas on Jubilee Playing Fields, Ashby. He had been attacked with a piece of wood.
1979	Lynda Farrow	Whitehall Road, Woodford Green, London	On 19 January 1979, heavily pregnant mother of two Lynda Farrow was found brutally murdered in her home in Whitehall Road. Her throat had been slashed and she had been raped. Earlier that day, Farrow had been shopping with her mother, and had bought a new pair of shoes and a coat. She then went to her partner's fruit stall before returning home by car. It is believed that Farrow either ran into her home to answer her ringing phone, leaving the door open behind her, or that she knew her attacker and let him in willingly. Farrow's body was found by her two daughters. In 2010, Farrow's killing was reconstructed on BBC's Crimewatch. The appeal featured her partner, now remarried, and her two daughters. The only sighting of Farrow's killer was by her neighbour, who saw a man wearing a long black coat entering Farrow's home at around 2 pm. He had blonde hair and blue eyes. The only other clue to the killer is a set of footprints leading to Farrow's house. So far, nobody has been convicted for her murder.
February 1979	Joe Gallagher and Freda Hunter	Hyde, Greater Manchester	Young couple found bludgeoned to death in their bedroom. Last seen after 20 year old Freda was picked up from her Saturday evening shift at a local pub by her 30 year old boyfriend Joe four days before their bodies were found. He was known to both use and deal in cannabis (for medicinal reasons) and had told family members that he had received threats. The killer or killers had broken into the house through the kitchen window.
17 April 1979	Gordon Snowden	Sutton Bridge, South Lincolnshire	At around 2am (after Easter Monday), Gordon Snowden, 60, a petrol pump attendant at Sutton Bridge Motors, located on Bridge Road near Crosskeys Bridge, was found lying beside his kiosk with severe head injuries. A cash till had been stolen. Snowden later died in hospital from his injuries. Part of the investigation centred on trying to trace a Citroën 2CV seen on the garage forecourt shortly before the murder. The cold case remains one of Lincolnshire Police' few unsolved murders. In the late 1990s, British serial contract killer/hitman John "Bruce" Childs from East London, convicted of six killings in the 1970s, confessed to five more murders from his jail cell. His claimed a fifth victim was Snowden. Childs said he killed Snowden with a cosh because he was afraid he would be recognised after dumping another murder victim's car nearby in the River Nene. Six months earlier, Childs claimed he and associate Henry (Harry) "Big H" Mackenney had called at the filling station after murdering Ronald Andrews and dumping his car in the nearby River Nene. Fearing that Snowden would remember the two strangers after the car was recovered, Childs went back to secure his silence. He said: "I battered him to death with a cosh in his office and took the till to make it look like robbery. He was an old boy, and when I look back I'm sorry. But in those days I was ruthless about eliminating risks. "It may sound silly, but I'm telling this now because I think that man might have relatives and I would like them to know the truth." However, Lincolnshire Police have confirmed that nobody has ever been charged or prosecuted in relation to the murder.
1979	Bedgebury Forest Woman	Bedgebury Forest, Kent	On 23 October 1979, a mystery woman aged between 30 and 35 was found in Bedgebury Forest having been beaten to death. The discovery led to a murder enquiry but she was never identified. It was thought she had come from Eastern Europe and had one child. She was white, about 5 ft 1 in, of thin build, with brown eyes and dark brown, shoulder-length straight hair. When found she was wearing black shoes, a floral dress and a black polo neck jumper. Police had re-investigated the case in 1999, and in May 2000 Harry Pennells from East Sussex stood trial for her murder but was acquitted after a four-week trial.

1980s

Year	Name of victim(s)	Location body found	Notes
c.15 May 1980	Jessie Earl	Eastbourne	Aged 22, disappeared around 15 May 1980. Her skeletal remains were found 9 years later in April 1989 in bushes at Beachy Head. British Serial Killer Peter Tobin is now considered an official suspect in Earl's murder, as he lived in Eastbourne in the early 1980s. Police later commented, however, that they "cannot prove anything unless Tobin confesses".
1981	Nude in the Nettles	Yorkshire	A woman's naked and decomposed body was found dumped in bushes next to a country road near Sutton Bank on 28 August 1981 after police received an anonymous tip off from a "well spoken man" who refused to give his name for "national security reasons".
1982	Roberto Calvi	Blackfriars Bridge	Italian banker, chairman of Banco Ambrosiano which collapsed in one of modern Italy's biggest political scandals, found hanged. The death was ruled as murder after two coroners' inquests and an independent investigation. In June 2007, five people were acquitted of his murder after a trial in Rome. See also "In God's Name", a book by David Yallop, which relates Calvi's murder, and the 'suiciding' of his secretary, to corruption and possibly the death of Pope John Paul I – Papa Albini.
14 August 1982	Gurcharn Singh Landa (known as 'John')	Cyprus Road, Mapperley, Nottingham	The 33-year-old Nottingham taxi driver was found dead in the early hours of Saturday 14 August 1982, having been stabbed 87 times. The police believe he was robbed of his takings and then stabbed, mostly in the chest. 11 people were arrested but no one charged. The father of eight was sent to Peel Street at about 4 am to pick up a passenger called 'Shelton,' who had rung from a phone box. Police believe he picked someone up before driving to Cyprus Road, about a mile away. At 4:05 am, a woman living on Cyprus Road heard a car brake suddenly and looking out of the window, saw the taxi rocking violently as though a fight was taking place. She also reported seeing a man searching the taxi's dashboard. She called the police then went to help but Mr Landa died shortly after police arrived. The police re-opened the case in August 2012.
1983	Janice Carole Weston	Cambridgeshire	At 0900 hrs on Sunday, 11 September 1983, the fully clothed body of an unidentified female was found in a ditch adjacent to a lay-by on the northbound carriageway of the A1 road, approximately 11⁄2 miles south of the Brampton Hut roundabout, Cambridgeshire. The body was identified as that of Janice Weston formerly living in London, a solicitor and partner of a well established firm in Lincolns Inn, London. She was last seen alive on the previous day, at her office in London.
1983	Eila Karjalainen	Oxfordshire	In summer 1983, the Finnish nursing student, 23-year-old Eila Karjalainen was on holiday in England, probably hitch-hiking, when she was murdered by an unknown perpetrator. Eila was last seen alive on Sunday, 7 August 1983 in London. Her decomposed body was found on 25 November 1983 at Barnham Woods on the Blenheim estate in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. Her rucksack, however, was found 5 miles away, beside A40 at Bernard Gate near Oxford. The cause of Eila’s death was determined as strangulation.
5 November 1983	Lloyd Simpson	Hackney, London	26-year-old Lloyd Simpson was attacked as he watched TV at his flat in 83-94 Shaftesbury Court, Shaftesbury Street, in Shoreditch, London. He was shot in the head and stomach (his pit bull terrier was left unharmed). The sound of gunshots, despite flat's thin walls, reportedly didn't attract neighbours' attention - due to fireworks display outside the building at that time. According to detectives, the murder bore all the hallmarks of an execution. Victim's body was discovered two days later by his father after he failed to turn up for work at the family's wastepaper business. The possible motive behind the killing was related to victim's sideline dealings with second-hand cars trade - however, such hypothesis was strongly disputed by his father. Other hypothesis is that perpetrators were looking for something important to them (the flat was frenzily searched through).
17 November 1983	Stephen Sylvester	Car park at the London's Heathrow Airport	In the early hours of 17 November 1983, the 39-year-old West Indian mini-cab driver Stephen Sylvester was stabbed multiple times with commando knife, while on duty. He was attacked on the car's back seat, to which he got under unclear circumstances - one of the stab wounds penetrated his heart. Sylvester's body was hidden in the car's boot and then found four days later at the airport's car park. Most likely his killer is also responsible for the murder of another taxi driver from the same area, Pardeep Sangha.
12 December 1983	Gary Collins	Brightling, Rother, East Sussex	The 25-year-old drugs dealer was discovered stabbed and beaten to death in woods at Brightling near Battle. Detectives believe it may have been a contract killing related to drug smuggling. Collins had disappeared from his home in St Thomas Road, Hastings on 12 December 1983, three months before his body was found. His unlocked grey BMW car was found abandoned at Battle rail station. Also the body of his cross-bred collie Trudy, who had been stabbed through the heart, was found in the same woods.
1984	Colin Maxwell	Streatham, London	On Sunday 19 February 1984, the 13-year-old Colin Maxwell left his home in Streatham and was never seen alive again. His skeletal remains were found on 14 June 1986 in a back garden on Polworth Road, Streatham. The cause of death is unknown, although it is believed the teenager got strangled. The murder primary suspect Albert Newman got cleared of charges at Old Bailey.
31 March 1984	Pardeep Sangha	By the A30 road close to Southern Perimeter fence of Heathrow Airport	In the early hours of 31 March 1984, the Indian mini-cab driver Pardeep Sangha was stabbed to death, while on duty. At 2 a.m. his body was found slumped behind the car's passenger seat. The killer probably attempted to hide the body in the car's boot and then abandon the car at the Heathrow Airport - however, the car had run out of petrol some distance away from the airport, where it was eventually dumped. Also, the killer wasn't able to open the car's boot. Most likely Sangha's killer is also responsible for the murder of another taxi driver from the same area, Stephen Sylvester.
17 April 1984	WPC Yvonne Fletcher	Outside the Libyan Embassy, London	WPC Yvonne Fletcher was patrolling the area just outside the Libyan embassy during a protest when shots were fired into the crowd killing her, and injuring 10 others. The official inquest into her death ruled that she was killed by automatic weapon fire from within the Embassy. After much tension, all staff were returned to their home country. The Libyan government accepted responsibility in 1999, but no one has ever been prosecuted for her death.
30 April 1984	Anthony Littler	East Finchley, London	The 45-year-old senior customs excise man was found lying in pool of blood in dark alley near East Finchley tube station. Anthony was returning home from the city centre. He was attacked soon after he'd left tube station, around 0.20 am on 30 April 1984. The man who alerted the emergency services from the nearby telephone box was never traced.
25 May 1984	Yvonne Coley	Kings Heath, Birmingham	Yvonne Coley, the 28-year-old prostitute, was discovered hidden under a hedge on the edge of Cocks Moor Woods Golf Course at Warstock Lane, Kings Heath. She had been strangled with her own bra in the early hours of May 25, 1984. Alun Kyte, the killer of two other prostitutes, was suspected of Yvonne's murder, however no official charges were filed against him in this case.
1 June 1984	Mark Tildesley	No body found	Seven-year-old Mark Tildesley disappeared while visiting a funfair in Wokingham, Berkshire on the evening of 1 June 1984. He was lured away from the fair and his bicycle was found chained to railings nearby. In 1991 it emerged that Mark had been abducted, drugged, tortured, raped and murdered by a London-based paedophile gang on the night he disappeared.
10 September 1984	Mark Yendell	Docks by Welsh Back, Bristol	On the evening of 10 September 1984, the 33-year-old British Rail steward, Mark Yendell, received fatal blows in the head at the car park by Temple Meads station in Bristol. He was attacked by at least two unidentified men. Then his body was placed at the back seat of his own red Lancia and taken to docks between Bristol Bridge and Redcliffe Bridge, where it was eventually dumped into waters. The motive behind the killing has never been clearly established.
24 September 1984	Elizabeth Sutherland	Culbokie, Scotland	In the afternoon of 24 September 1984, Elizabeth Sutherland, the mother of two, was stabbed to death in her own house in Culbokie, apparently after she disturbed burglars. Few hours later her body lying in pool of blood was discoverd by 10-year-old daughter, Jane. In December 1985 George McPhee was charged and convicted for the murder. However, the case was re-opened many years later and brought to appeal court. In 2003 the jury overturned conviction and released McPhee. The murder remains unsolved then, although the police decided not to hunt the killer anymore.
October 1984	Barbara Pinder	Battersea, London	76-year-old pensioner, Barbara Pinder, was beaten, strangled and then stabbed 35 times at her flat 24A Prince of Wales Mansions in Prince of Wales Drive, Battersea, at some point between 26-28 October, 1984. The motive behind the killing has never been clearly determined.
1984	Shelley Morgan	Backwell, North Somerset	The US-born 33-year-old mother-of-two, Shelley Morgan, disappeared on 11 June 1984 while drawing and taking pictures of Avon Gorge in Bristol. Her remains were found on 14 October 1984 in a copse off Long Lane, in Backwell. Shelley was sexually assaulted and stabbed 14 times in the back. Her Olympus OM20 camera (serial number 1032853), as well as bag, clothes and glasses were stolen and never found.
8 December 1984	Lisa Hession	Leigh, Greater Manchester	14-year-old Lisa Hession was attacked, sexually assaulted and strangled to death on Saturday 8 December 1984, as she walked home alone from a party. Her body was discovered just before midnight in Rugby Road, Leigh, 200 yards from the family home. Her mother, Christine, reported her missing when she failed to return home, but within a very short space of time, she received a call from the police to make her way to Leigh Infirmary and identify her daughter's body. Hession's clothing had been disturbed (suggesting a sexual motive), and she also had marks around her neck and a black eye. The case went cold, but advances in DNA technology allowed the swabbing of men in the Leigh and Wigan area to take place in 2011. However, nobody has been charged with the murder. Hession's mother died in 2016.
9 December 1984	Peter Miller	Great Yarmouth, Norfolk	The 24-year-old was found stabbed in his kitchen by his brother. He died of one single stab wound to the chest. Although he had links to convicted criminals Andrew Hall and James Ventham, his murder was not linked to either of them. A CS canister was also found at the scene, believed to have been used by either Miller or his killer during a struggle.
1985	Sandra Phillips	Swansea	The mother of four was found beaten and strangled inside the sex shop she managed, which was locked up. Two brothers were wrongly convicted and spent seven years behind bars before their 1992 release, after which police apologised for investigational failings. Reviews of the case in 2002 and 2004 turned up new information but no killer, and in 2009 it was announced that the investigation would cease unless and until new information surfaced.
1985	PC Keith Blakelock	London	PC Blakelock was defending firefighters as they tended to a burning supermarket during the Broadwater Farm riot; he stumbled and was set upon by a mob with bladed weapons. Three men were convicted in 1987, but the convictions were overturned after forensic evidence suggested interview transcripts had been falsified. The officer in charge of the original investigation was cleared of inventing a statement by one of the accused.
3 February 1985	Two children of Robert and Lee Goble	Hastings	On the night of 2/3 February 1985 the fire was deliberately set in the house of Goble family, at 38 St Helen’s Road in Hastings. Robert and Lee Goble managed to escape the fire with the help of alarmed neighbours, however two children (4-year-old son and 11-year old daughter) sleeping in the room on first floor didn't survive the attack. The motive of the arson hasn't been established. One of the hypothesis is that the attackers attempted to target someone else, but hit the wrong house by mistake.
February 1985	Constance „Connie” Aris	Cheltenham	73-year-old widow Constance Aris, known for short as "Connie", was brutally murdered in her house at 32 Roman Road, Cheltenham.The murderer was probably known to the victim, as there was no signs of forced entry. Conie died of several axe blows to the head. Killer struck unexpectedly as she was sitting in chair and watching TV. She was last seen alive in the evening of 27 February 1985, when she was returning home from town. Her body was discovered next morning by her son and daughter-in-law. Despite massive hunt for the killer, nobody was ever charged with killing. Potential motive of murder was robbery (missing jewelery and watch).
22 April 1985	Jakckie Waines	Framtpon Cotterell near Bristol	35-year-old Jackie Waines, also known as Linda Guest, a prostitute, mother of three, was stabbed to death on the night of 21/22 April 1985. She was last seen alive at 11.20 pm on Ashley Road in Bristol. One hour later her body was found on Perrinpit Road near Framtpon Cotterell. Jackie was probably killed by one of her clients. Witnesses who discovered the body, spotted dark Ford Cortina parked nearby. The car drove off as soon as witnesses emerged.
September/October 1985	Alexander McClelland	Brighouse	On 5 October 1985, the body of 66-year-old Alexander McClelland, also known as Sandy, was found in a car boot at car park between Bethel Street and Calder river in Brighouse. Sandy was stabbed to death for undetermined reason. He was last seen alive, and in good mood, in the evening of 12 September 1985 near his house in Leeds. The investigation was re-opened in 2017, but without results.
6 November 1985	Phil Nickson	Stoke Newington, London	A 32-year-old civil servant killed by a blow to the head in Newington Green Road at about 5 pm on 6 November 1985. An extensive police investigation including a reconstruction on the BBC programme Crimewatch failed to solve the case.
1986	Suzy Lamplugh	Fulham, London	Suzy was a British estate agent reported missing on 28 July 1986 (aged 25) in Fulham, southwest London, England. She was officially declared dead, presumed murdered, in 1994.
1986	John William Malthouse	Cambridge	John Malthouse, of no fixed abode, living in and around Cambridge for several years. On 22 August 1986 his body was found in toilets at Victoria Avenue, Midsummer Common, Cambridge. He had been the subject of an extremely violent assault.
1986	Ann Ballantine	Edinburgh	Ann was a 20-year-old woman who was found in a canal wrapped in carpet. She had been raped then throttled. The killer kept her before dumping her in the canal.
1986	Linda Cook	Portsmouth	A 24-year-old barmaid was raped and beaten to death in a school playground. Footprint evidence led to the conviction of an off duty sailor, Michael Shirley, and the case was dubbed the "Cinderella Murder". Shirley was sentenced to life in 1988, but eventually released in 2003 when DNA evidence proved he was not the killer.
10 March 1987	Daniel Morgan	Sydenham, Kent	Daniel Morgan was found with an axe wound to the head in the car park of the Golden Lion pub. There are suggestions police corruption is linked to his death.
28 March 1987	Helen Fleet	Weston-super-Mare	The brutal murder of Helen Fleet has left a lasting legacy in Weston-super-Mare. Many years since the frenzied attack, some townsfolk still fear returning to the beauty spot where she met her end. People continue to talk about the murder, apparently it was a motiveless attack on a defenceless pensioner.
1987	Simon Dale	Leintwardine, Shropshire	The body of Simon Dale, a near-blind recluse and former architect, was found at Heath House, an isolated 17th century mansion on the Shropshire/Herefordshire border. Dale's corpse bore the marks of a savage attack believed to have been inflicted some two days earlier. His ex-wife, the Baroness de Stempel (née Susan Wilberforce), stood trial in July 1989 for the murder of her former husband (earlier charges of murder against two of the Baroness's children, Marcus and Sophia Wilberforce, had been dropped); she was found not guilty. No one else has ever been charged with the murder. The investigation coincidentally revealed a fraud committed by the Baroness against her late aunt, Lady Illingworth. Police investigating the fraud made a search of the grounds of Heath House for missing gold bullion said to be worth some £10 million, but nothing was ever found.
23 March 1988	Debbie Linsley	Victoria Station, London	Debbie Linsley, 26, from Bromley was found murdered in the carriage of a Network SouthEast train at Victoria station. She had died from multiple stab wounds to the heart. The case was reopened in 2002 but no-one has so far been arrested. She lived and worked in Edinburgh and had been visiting her parents and brother Gordon. She got on the 14:16 train in an old-fashioned compartment from Petts Wood to London Victoria stations. Screams were heard between Brixton and London Victoria. The killer left traces of his blood at the scene but the murder weapon, thought to be a knife with a blade length of between 13 and 19 centimetres, was not found. There is a £20,000 reward for information. The case led to Network SouthEast reconfiguring the interiors of their trains and removing the compartments from most workings.
20 April 1988	Inga Maria Hauser	Ballypatrick Forest, near Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland	Inga Maria Hauser, 19, a German tourist, was found murdered in the remote Ballypatrick Forest area of County Antrim, Northern Ireland. She was last seen on the Stranraer to Larne ferry two weeks before her body was discovered strangled and sexually assaulted. Police have been able to identify a possible DNA profile of the culprit to a number of nearby villages but have been unable to obtain enough evidence to charge any suspects.
18 June 1988	Marie Wilks	M50 motorway, near Bushley, Hereford & Worcester	Wilks, aged 22 and seven months pregnant, was driving the family's Morris Marina when the vehicle broke down on the M50 motorway. Leaving her 13-month-old son and 11-year-old sister in the car, Wilks walked approximately 700 yards along the hard shoulder to use the emergency telephone to call for help. At some point during the call, Wilks was abducted. She was found dead two days later, three miles from the location of the emergency phone (which had been found hanging down by its cord). Wilks had been stabbed in the neck. An artist's impression of the suspect resulted in the arrest and subsequent trial of soldier Eddie Browning, who spent five-and-a-half years in prison after being convicted of the murder in November 1989. He was ultimately released in May 1994 after the court of appeal ruled the conviction unsafe due to crucial evidence being withheld by the police. Browning received a £600,000 pay-out for wrongful imprisonment. In May 2018, Browning died aged 63. Reviews of the case have failed to uncover any other potential evidence or suspects.
21 December 1988	Lockerbie bombing	Scottish airspace	On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from Heathrow to New York exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground. In January 2001, Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was found guilty of mass murder and jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years. However, no-one else has been brought to court, leaving the case open. In August 2009, Megrahi was released from prison on compassionate grounds and returned to Libya due to advanced prostate cancer, from which he died in 2012. Some relatives of the dead welcomed the decision to release Megrahi, as they were convinced that he was wrongly convicted of the mass murder.
February 1989	James Hassard	Caol, near Fort William	The badly beaten body of James "Jimmy" Hassard, 47, was found in a car park in the Highland village of Caol, near Fort William, in the early hours of Saturday, 18 February 1989. Mr Hassard had been drinking in the nearby Lochaber Bar between about 8 pm on Friday, 17 February and 1 am on Saturday. Despite a lengthy police inquiry, no-one has ever been caught. In 2010, Northern Constabulary said they are conducting a review into the murder in the hope that some new evidence may come to light and ultimately resolve the case.

1990s

Year	Name of victim(s)	Location body found	Notes
29 January 1990	Surinder Gill	Hounslow, West London	Surinder Gill was an insurance salesman drove a distinctive modified dark red Mercedes with the index plate 16 GLL. He was found stabbed to death in his car in Beavers Open Space, Hounslow. His murder was reconstructed on Crimewatch in April 1990.
June 1990	Leonard Gomm	Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire	Mr Gomm, 75, was a taxicab driver found stabbed to death in Hampton Gay, near Bletchingdon in Oxfordshire, at 10:50 am on 13 June 1990. His Ford Granada taxi was found five yards away. Mr Gomm had radioed his employers four hours earlier (at about 6:35 am) telling them he was taking a passenger to Bicester. Police believe he picked up the fare from Gloucester Green, Oxford. Two witnesses saw the victim driving his taxi with a passenger at around this time. No money or valuables had been taken from Mr Gomm or his taxi leaving the motive as to his murder a mystery. On the 20th anniversary of the murder, Thames Valley Police reported the uncovering of new forensic evidence which could shed light on the motive.
3 August 1990	Ann Heron	Aeolian House, Darlington	The mother-of-three had her throat slit while sunbathing outside her family home. Her husband, Peter, found the body and was later charged with her murder but the case collapsed. Nobody else has been charged with the murder.
December 1990	Steven Johnson	Mow Cop, Staffordshire	On 22 December, insurance salesman and part-time taxi driver Johnson was last sighted at 3:30 am collecting a fare in Hanley bound for Packmoor. His body was discovered by a dog walker four hours later with his throat cut 20 yards from his taxi.
1991	Penny Bell	Perivale, London	Body found in a car in Gurnell Grove Leisure Centre car park. The victim was a 43-year-old businesswoman and mother of two, who was stabbed 50 times as she sat behind the wheel of her car.
1991	Lynne Trenholm	Boughton, Chester	Trenholm was found dead in Pinky's massage parlour in Boughton, Chester, on 9 June 1991. She had been stabbed multiple times. Despite there being a solid fingerprint recovered from the scene, the police have no suspects and appeals are still made in an effort to solve Trenholm's murder.
1991	Sandy Drummond	Fife, Scotland	Reclusive Drummond, 33, was found dead on a farm track close to the home he shared with his brother, an isolated cottage in St Andrews, Fife, on 24 June 1991. Just days prior to his death, Drummond had withdrawn large amounts of cash from his accounts, although the money was later found in the house. He had also resigned from his job three days before his death. On the day itself, he was seen running from his house to fields opposite carrying a blue sports bag which has never been found. At 2:30 pm, a man was seen on a bus near to Drummond's cottage with a blood stained bandage wrapped around his hand. This man was never traced. Several occasions before Drummond's death (and twice on the actual day), an orange Morris Marina was seen parked outside the cottage, but it is still unknown who owned this car or who visited him. Drummond's death was originally ruled as natural, but forensics later revealed he had injuries to his neck.
1991	The Bolney Torso	Bolney, Sussex	In October 1991 a body was discovered in woodland off Broxmead Lane in Bolney, Sussex. The head and hands had been removed and the victim was never identified. In March 2009 police exhumed the body and gave a revised description of the victim. He was between 5 ft 6 and 5 ft 8 tall, well built and aged 35 – 45. Police issued pictures of his clothing, including a light-blue shirt, with a distinctive motif on its pocket.
1991	Nicola Payne	Coventry, West Midlands	Nicola Payne, aged 18, went missing from the Wood End area on 14 December 1991. She was on her way to her parents' house from her home in Winston Avenue. She had a six-month-old son at the time of her disappearance. In June 2012 police began a search of parkland after being given new information. On 20 June 2012, Nigel Barwell and his brother-in-law Thomas O'Reilly were arrested by the police but later released. On 27 January 2015, Barwell and O'Reilly were charged with her murder. However, on 16 November 2015, Barwell and O'Reilly were found not guilty of murdering Payne A tent which appeared to show DNA evidence against the defendants had been stored in uncertain conditions for a month and cross contamination was possible.
January 1992	Tracey Meade	Grand Union Canal London	20 January 1992, 14 year old Tracey Meade said good bye to her Mother (Kim) and went off to stay the night at her aunt's flat nearby. It happened so often that Kim didn't give it a second thought. Only Tracey never arrived. Twelve days later her body was found in the Grand Union Canal. She had drowned but was found to have been stabbed twice and police think it may have been a sexual motive as she was partially dressed and some of her clothes were found elsewhere. A reconstruction was done on Crimewatch in Apr 1992 but police are no further to finding the killer. The family are still seeking answers and will continue to fight for truth of what happened to her and still hope one day her killer will be brought to Justice
October 1992	Nikki Allan	Sunderland	Seven-year-old Nikki Allan was battered to death in the then derelict Exchange Building. George Heron, 24, a neighbour was subsequently charged with the murder. However at his trial the case collapsed as it was deemed that his confession had been gained by coercion. In 2006 police confirmed that the Nikki Allan murder was being reinvestigated by a "cold case" review team based at Northumbria police headquarters. In September 2013, BBC's Crimewatch reconstructed a second appeal in an attempt to solve the case.
November 1992	Natalie Pearman	Norwich, Norfolk	16-year-old Natalie was strangled and her body dumped in woodland at Ringland Hills, on the edge of Norwich. At around 3:45 am on 20 November, a lorry driver taking a short cut through Ringland Hills spotted Natalie's body in a layby. New information about the case were received in November 2012.
December 1992	Johanna Young	Watton, Norfolk	On 23 December, 14-year-old Johanna left her home in Merton Road, Watton, at around 7:30 pm and was seen outside her local fish and chip shop half an hour later. The alarm was raised the following morning when she failed to turn up for her paper round and, on Boxing Day, her body was found in a freezing pond near her home and clothes and shoes discarded nearby.
21 January 1993	Arthur Brumhill	Northampton, Northamptonshire	76-year-old Arthur Brumhill's body was found in the basement of the pet and garden centre on Wellingborough Road, where he worked part-time by a fellow employee. He had died from several blows to the head caused by a blunt metal object, thought to be a tyre iron missing from the scene. The killer is suspected to have escaped out of an upstairs window with a small amount of money taken. An eyewitness described seeing Arthur with another man in his teens with "mousey-brown" hair, standing at about 5 ft 5in tall, in the shop the evening of the murder. Despite the case appearing on Crimewatch and several arrests being made the case remains unsolved to this day. On 21 January 2013, the 20th anniversary of the murder, police announced they were reviewing the case and hoped that advances in Forensic Analysis and DNA profiling could bring the killer to justice.
1993	Doris Shelley	Martlesham, Suffolk	Pensioner Doris Shelley died after she was attacked in her own home at Martlesham, near Woodbridge on 11 February 1993.
1993	Jean Bradley	Acton, London	Stabbed to death in Carbery Avenue. Victim was a 47-year-old businesswoman. A man was charged, but due to a lack of evidence the case was dropped.
1993	Harry and Megan Tooze	Llanharry, South Wales	Shot at point blank range in their home at Ty Ar y Waun Farm. Jonathan Jones, the boyfriend of their daughter Cheryl was convicted of their murder, but the verdict was quickly overturned on appeal. Since then South Wales Police have made several attempts to solve the murder, but no further arrests have been made.
1993	Karen Hales	Ipswich, Suffolk	21-year-old Karen Hales was murdered in her own home in front of her young daughter. She had been stabbed and her body set on fire during a vicious attack on Sunday 21 November.
1994	Chris Little	Stockport	Shot while driving his car. Arran Coghlan was charged but cleared; the next decade Coghlan went on to be charged and cleared in two other murders and with cocaine smuggling.
1994	Lindsay Rimer	Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire	Teenager Lindsay Jo Rimer lived with her parents at Cambridge Street, Hebden Bridge. She was a pupil at Calder High School. At around 10 pm on 7 November 1994 she left home to visit the local Spar Supermarket in Crown Street, Hebden Bridge, to buy cornflakes. On the way to the shop she visited the Trades Club in Holme Street. According to CCTV footage in the supermarket Lindsay paid for the cornflakes at 10:22 pm. Five months later on 12 April 1995, her body was recovered from the Rochdale Canal, approximately one mile upstream from Hebden Bridge town centre.
1994	Rikki Neave	Peterborough	Six-year-old Rikki's naked body was found in woodland near his home. He had been strangled. Rikki was last seen leaving his Welland estate home on 28 November 1994. His mother Ruth was convicted of child neglect and also initially charged with murder, but was cleared of the murder charge at court in 1996. A man was arrested in April 2016 for his murder following a renewed investigation into the case in 2015, but police later confirmed he would not face charges.
1994	Dr Michael Meenaghan (Spike)	Blackbird Leys, Oxford	A lecturer at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University, Dr Meenaghan, 35, was shot at about 4:30 pm at his end-terrace home on the Blackbird Leys estate in Oxford. Police called it an apparently motiveless attack. He was shot through the kitchen window of his home at 4:30 pm on 10 December by person or persons unknown.
1994	Tracy Mertens	Eaton, Cheshire	Mother of two aged 31, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, who died 24 hours after being left on the steps of a church by her killers, who abducted her when she returned to pick up belongings from her former home in Nechells, Birmingham. She suffered horrific burns and was found by a man who heard her cries as he walked past the churchyard on 23 December 1994. It was a bitterly cold evening but her clothes were still smouldering. A petrol can was found nearby. Mertens was taken to hospital but died in the early hours of Christmas Eve.
1995	Janet Brown	Hall Farm, Spriggs Holly Lane, between Radnage and Chinnor, Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire border	Aged 51, a mother of three who worked as a nurse in Oxford, was found gagged and handcuffed at her home.
1995	Michael Doherty	Port Glasgow, Inverclyde	Michael was reported missing on 9 June 1995, and his remains were discovered on 7 August 1995. He had gunshot wounds to the head and his body was dismembered. According to the police there has never been enough evidence to convict anyone for the murder and the case still remains open.
September 1995	Nobantu 'Mandy' Zani	Druid's Altar, Harden Moor, Bingley, West Yorkshire	The body of 15-year-old Zani was found on 30 September 1995 near to Druid's Altar. Police believe that she had been strangled with her own chiffon scarf. She had not been seen for three weeks, but had not been listed as missing as her mother thought she was staying with friends. The police investigation uncovered a double life, but an inquest could not say with absolute certainty how she had died due to decomposition of the body. However, because she had been covered with branches and leaves it is classified as an undetected murder.
1995	Joy Hewer	Walthamstow, London	Hewer, 52, was stabbed and sexually assaulted at her own home on 17 October 1995. The retired primary school teacher was found dead after police and firefighters were called to a blaze at the sixth floor flat in St David's Court, off Parkstone Road, Walthamstow, at around 11:45 pm. Ms Hewer, a devout Christian, had suffered multiple injuries including a number of stab wounds. The murder remains unsolved but a £20,000 reward is on offer for information leading to a conviction.
1995	Ian Stewart Grant	Cambridge	Grant was a night club doorman working in Cambridge. He was shot dead on waste ground near Fulborne Hospital in November 1995.
1996	Alan Holmes	Camden	Found fully clothed and tied face-down to his bed by police on 4 January after being there for ten days; he died in hospital the next day. Several people had used his bank cards to steal £1,000.
1996	Melanie Hall	Bath	Melanie Hall, a 25-year-old psychology graduate from Bradford Leigh, Wiltshire, disappeared in June 1996 after a night out in Bath. Her remains were found on a motorway slip road near Bristol in 2009. A man was detained as a suspect in November 2013.
1996	Caroline Glachan	Renton, West Dunbartonshire	On the evening of Saturday, 24 August 1996, 14-year-old Caroline left the home she shared with her mother in Bonhill, a council estate in the Vale of Leven. Caroline was heading out to see friends in Renton. She was last seen alive at 11:30 pm at the Ladyton shopping centre in Bonhill. The following morning her severely battered body was found by a drug addict, hidden in shrubbery beside the river. She had been the victim of a seemingly motiveless, violent attack. There was no evidence of a sexual assault.
1996	Richard Watson	East Grinstead, Sussex	On the evening of 10 December, business tycoon Richard Watson was shot dead by an unknown gunman as he arrived home. Charges were brought against the victim's wife and stepdaughter, but these were eventually dropped. (Sussex Police later apologised to the two women and acknowledged their total innocence.) Another suspect has since been identified, but no charges have yet been brought.
1997	Billie-Jo Jenkins	Hastings, East Sussex	Foster father Sion Jenkins was originally convicted of murder in 1998. This conviction was quashed in 2004 and a retrial was ordered. The first retrial in 2005 and a second retrial in 2006 both ended when the juries were unable to reach a verdict. Jenkins was formally acquitted.
1997	Patricia Grainger	Sheffield, South Yorkshire	Mother aged 25, murdered and dumped in a brook close to woodlands.
1997	Kate Bushell	Exeter, Devon	Schoolgirl Kate Bushell was murdered as she walked a neighbour's dog a short distance from her home in Exwick, on the outskirts of Exeter. Bushell, aged 14, set off from her home in Burrator Drive, at 4:30 pm on 15 November 1997. When she failed to come home, her parents called the police. A search located her body in a field next to Exwick Lane at 7:35 pm that evening. She had been brutally murdered.
1998	Hannah Deterville	Perivale, London	The body of Hannah Deterville, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, was found mutilated at Horsenden Woods, Greenford on Monday 27 January 1998. She had been stabbed 20 times in the face and the neck. No motive could be found.
28 February 1998	John Bennett	Royston, Glasgow	John Bennett, aged 26, was beaten and stabbed multiple times on Glasgow's Royston Road in an apparently "motiveless" killing. The attack occurred in broad daylight, in front of shoppers. Three men, including Glasgow gangster Ian McAteer, stood trial but were acquitted of the murder.
7 March 1998	Elsie Viva Freeman	Cambridge	The body of Elsie Viva Freeman was discovered on her bed at her home address at Mill Road, Impington at about 1212hrs on Saturday 7 March by a member of the family.
2 May 1998	Robin Charles Wood	Northolt, West London	Car dealer Robin Charles Wood, 47, was shot dead on his front doorstep on Saturday 2 May 1998. Mr Wood was at home with his partner and 10-year-old son in Northolt, West London, when there was a knock on the door at around 10:40 pm. His partner Kath Pribisevic answered it to find to a man calling himself Terry and asking to speak with Mr Wood. As the victim approached the front door he was shot in the neck with a sawn off shotgun. Mr Wood bled to death at the scene on the Racecourse Estate. The suspect, described as white, aged between 25-35, 5'7 in height, of slim build, with sharp facial features and wearing an unzipped dark-coloured anorak, was seen to run into Kempton Avenue. On the 15th anniversary of the murder, detectives offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest and prosecution of the person responsible.
1998	Julia Webb	Sandiway near Northwich, Cheshire	Housewife Julia Webb, 52, was battered with a blunt instrument while walking her dog near her home in Sandiway on 22 July 1998.
1998	Lyn Bryant	Truro, Cornwall	Lyn Bryant was murdered as she was walking her dog along a country lane at Ruan High Lanes near Truro in Cornwall on 20 October 1998. Her body was found at 2:40 pm. She had been stabbed several times. Bryant's killing is said to be linked to the murder of schoolgirl Kate Bushell the previous year.
1998	Saul "Solly" Nahome	Finchley, London	Nahome was shot at his home several times in the back; upon collapsing, he was shot again in the head. The case is believed to be linked to the disappearance earlier in 1998 of business associate Gilbert Wynter.
1999	Steven Brown	Tranent, Edinburgh	The beaten and stabbed body of Steven Brown was found in Tranent, on the outskirts of Edinburgh on 21 February 1999. Nobody has ever been arrested for the murder.
1999	Jill Dando	Fulham, London	On the morning of 26 April 1999, Dando left the home of her fiancé, Dr. Alan Farthing, and returned to her house in Gowan Avenue, Fulham, West London. As she reached her front door at about 11:30 am, she was shot once in the head. Her body was discovered shortly afterwards by a friend, local resident Helen Doble, and she was taken to the nearby Charing Cross Hospital where she was declared dead on arrival at 1:03 pm BST. After a huge amount of press coverage and a 13-month investigation police arrested Barry George, a convicted sex offender, for her murder. Originally convicted on 2 July 2001 to life imprisonment George appealed against the conviction in November 2007. Following an eight-week hearing he was acquitted on 1 August 2008.
1999	Mary Lazenby	Bethnal Green	Aged 80 and 4 feet 8 inches (1.42 m) tall, Lazenby was murdered on 22 May 1999 at her flat at Rochester Court, Wilmott Street, Bethnal Green. Her killer was possibly a man posing as a water board official. Lazenby was disabled, after a motorcycle accident had caused the loss of her left foot. Once a successful restaurateur in South Shields and known as the 'Curry Queen of South Shields', she had eventually lost her business and settled in Bethnal Green with her son and grandchildren.
1999	David Scott	London	Scott, 30, was stabbed to death in a Tottenham underpass. In 2012 prosecutors dropped a case against Kwame Appiah for the murder on the basis of scientific evidence.
1999	Vicky Hall	Trimley St Mary, Suffolk	Seventeen-year-old Victoria (Vicky) Hall went missing at about 2:30 am on Sunday, 19 September 1999, as she walked towards her home in Faulkeners Way, Trimley St Mary. Vicky's body was found, about 25 miles away, in a stream near Creeting St Peter (near Stowmarket) at 7:30 pm on Friday, 24 September 1999.
1999	David Barnshaw	Stockport	The 32-year-old drug dealer was abducted and forced to drink petrol. He died in a burning car on 20 September 1999. Arran Coghlan – previously cleared of the murder of Chris Little – was prosecuted but cleared after it emerged the prosecution held undisclosed evidence concerning another possible suspect. Coghlan went on to be charged and cleared with a third count of murder and cocaine smuggling.
1999	John Nisbett and William Lindsay	Haddington, East Lothian	The bodies of drug dealers John Nisbett of Craigneuk and William Lindsay of Motherwell were found on the outskirts of Haddington. It is thought they had been abducted, stabbed and shot, with their bodies then set on fire. It is said to be the outcome of a Glasgow drug war. No arrests have been made in connection with the case.

2000s

Year	Name of victim(s)	Location body found	Notes
2000	Frank McPhee	Maryhill, Glasgow	McPhie, himself twice cleared of murder, was shot by a sniper in a block of flats opposite his own as he returned home.
2001	"Adam"	River Thames	Unknown boy, also known as the "Torso in the Thames" case.
c. 20 October 2001	Hugh Cameron	River Skeagh, Glenarm	Hugh Cameron's body was found in the river about a month after he went missing. He had been stabbed, beaten and possibly tortured before his death. It is believed the Ulster Defence Association were behind his murder, but nobody has ever been charged.
12 May 2001	Andre Jan Aylward	Valleyfield Road, Streatham Common North	Andre Aylward was shot in his car. He had been driving his black E28 5-series BMW, which had blacked out windows, along Valleyfield Road at about 2.10am on 12 May 2001 when six shots were fired from a handgun at his car. After the shooting, he lost control of his car and crashed into some parked cars and a garden. He had been hit twice in the head and neck and was taken to King's College Hospital where he died around 4am. A few minutes before the shooting a grey 7 series BMW car was seen alongside his and the police said that they were seeking to identify it. It was thought that the car had just previously been at a nearby BP petrol station at the top of Knights Hill, where it had bought some petrol. It was thought that the attack might have been a case of road rage or mistaken identity. He lived nearby in Streatham and was thought to have driven home from a friend's house where he had been, along Crown Lane and Streatham Common North to the junction with Leigham Court Road and then along Valleyfield Road. The police said that they found nothing in his background to suggest that he had been involved in any criminal activity. They said that they thought that the reason for his murder was based on the events shortly before the shooting rather than any long running events or targeted gangland activity as it would not have been readily predictable that he would have been driving in that area at that time. He was a pet shop manager at Oliver's Pet Supplies in Streatham Vale, and a car enthusiast. His BMW car had tinted windows, a lowered suspension and a loud car stereo. His murder was shown on Crimewatch in July 2001.
14 June 2001	Colin Beer	North Hill, Plymouth	Colin Beer died after being punched. It was thought that he had been involved in an incident of road rage. He had been out drinking at the Hyde Park pub in the Mutley district on Saturday 9 June 2001 and was seen walking along Mutley Plain, through the traffic, up to North Hill. It was thought that at some point he had become involved in an incident and a driver had got out of their car and punched him. Colin Beer fell to the ground and suffered from a fractured skull after hitting his head. He died 5 days later in Derriford Hospital, Plymouth on 14 June 2001. He had left the Hyde Park pub at 6pm and was seen walking in and out of traffic. He was seen to make contact with a wing mirror of a blue Peugeot 406 car, either hitting it or bumping into it. Witnesses then saw a man get out of a red Vauxhall Cavalier car at 6.15pm and hit Colin Beer. The car was said to have had an eight-inch black sticker on the offside of the boot. The driver was described as being aged around 30 years old, of a medium build, with a thin-face, short brown hair and a goatee beard. He was said to have been wearing a white shirt and blue or black jeans. Colin Beer had lived in Devonport. This was shown in crimewatch July 2001.
5 November 2001	Michaela Hague	Spitalfields, Sheffield	Michaela Hague was a 25-year-old woman working as a prostitute. She was stabbed 19 times and her body dumped on wasteland at Spitalfields, near Sheffield City centre. She managed to give a description of her attacker as she lay dying in the arms of a police officer. She said her attacker was white and clean shaven with fair hair. He was wearing a wedding ring and drove a blue Ford Sierra car with a roof rack.
21 November 2001	Brian Hardwick	Colne Road, Huddersfield	Brian Hardwick, 50, was gunned down at his place of work and the only evidence at the scene, was that of robbery. Mr Hardwick was shot in the head and chest at Huddersfield Car Electricals with a small calibre weapon, but not found until the following day.  He was seen by his colleagues washing his hands, ready to go home, but found his car had a flat tyre caused deliberately, so he prepared to change it. He was found the next day by the owner at 8am. Mr Hardwick had an argument earlier that day with a man who wanted his car electrics checking without making an appointment. Brian's killer, or killers, also took his cash card and used his PIN number to withdraw £350 from a cash machine at the Asda store on Bradford Road, Huddersfield, minutes after he was shot. The card has not been used since and has not been recovered. There have been arrests made but no convictions.
13 March 2002	Evan Jones	York Road, Bristol	Punched, kicked and attacked with a chain, a father-of-two was left for dead in a busy street just an hour after he enjoyed a quiet pint. The 46-year-old had enjoyed a drink in the Beaufort pub in York Road Montpelier just before 10pm.The weapon – believed to be a bike or a large dog chain – was never found.
13 March 2002	Exmoor Body in the Bag	Winsford Hill, Winsford, Somerset	The man's badly decomposed corpse was found on 13 March 2002 wrapped in bin bags, a green single bed sheet and a single duvet. He had been tied with a stereo wire that was found with the remains. He is thought to have died 2–3 years before being found. It is not clear if the body had been brought into the UK from abroad. In May 2002, Detectives appealed on Crimewatch UK in the hope someone would recognise him but nobody called in to say who he was. In September, a new reconstruction of the man's head was released in a fresh appeal to identify him. He was 25–35 years old with black or dark brown hair and 5 ft 8–5 ft 9ins tall. He was thought to be Mediterranean, Middle Eastern or North African. He was wearing a gold chain that had a 22-carat pendant with the verse 225 from the Koran, the Holy Text of Islam, inscribed in Arabic across it. In September 2006 a funeral was held for the mystery victim.
28 March 2002	Michelle Bettles	Norwich, Norfolk	Mother of three small children, none of whom were in her care, Michelle was last seen alive in the Queens Road area of Norwich. Her fully clothed body was found in a woodland off Podmore Lane, Scarning, three days later. In June 2012 criminologist Professor David Wilson suggested that the killer was serial killer Steve Wright, but police dismissed the theory.
24 April 2002	Terry Morgan	Ennerdale, Rugby, Warwickshire	69 year old grandad Terry Morgan was shot in the chest on the driveway of his home. Police think it was a contract killing. Mr. Morgan was an anti-drug campaigner for the local area and Police think his murder was connected to this. There were arrests but all were released without charge.
25 June 2002	Alex Blue	Dowanhill, Glasgow	A businessman from the city's west end, Blue was found outside his home with head injuries. He died two days later. Blue ran a taxi business with an annual turnover of £7m. One theory is that he was the victim of a house buying scam. He told friends he was in the process of buying a new house and planned to view it the day after he was attacked. It was later discovered the home had never been on the market. Although nobody has been charged with the murder, Blue's mother and brother are convinced they know who murdered him. His brother said: "I know who was behind this but they got someone else to carry out their dirty work for them."
October 2002	Julie Dorsett	Walthamstow	Dorsett, a 33-year-old prostitute, vanished in 2002 and her skull and upper body were discovered buried in an allotment in 2008. It is believed her remains were placed there shortly after she disappeared. In 2012 her former partner, Sinclair Lewis, was cleared of killing her and of burying her body.
8 October 2002	Billy Sibbald	A1, near Musselburgh	Father of three Billy Sibbald went missing on 8 October 2002 from Joppa, Edinburgh, after telling his wife he was meeting business associates. Three months later, his decomposing body was found in woodland by a lay-by on the A1 near Musselburgh. There have been various theories for Billy Sibbalds murder including one that he may have been the victim of a gangland killing. Due to a lack of information coming through to the police, nobody has been arrested for his murder.
13 January 2003	David Warrilow	Chelmsley Wood, Solihull	The father-of-two suffered serious head injuries when he was run over as he tried to stop thieves taking his van from outside GB Singh's newsagents in Willow Way, Chelmsley Wood. His murder was shown on Crimewatch Feb 2003.
3 February 2003	Margaret Muller	Victoria Park, London	Muller, 27, was fatally stabbed while jogging in the park. Police suspect she may have been targeted in a robbery gone wrong.
4 February 2003	Paul Savage	Mold, Wales	30-year-old postman who died after being attacked by two men while on his round in Mold, Flintshire. He had been struck on the head several times with a wooden baton and was found lying in a pool of blood on the driveway of the home of Flintshire councillor Ray Dodd. The police later said they knew why Savage was killed, but would not elaborate. There is a £100,000 reward for information.
2003	Peter Stone	Cottenham, Cambridgeshire	Postman Peter Stone of Cottenham, a father of two, was attacked near the Chequers pub where he had been drinking on a Saturday night. He was found with serious head injuries in the early hours of the following morning. Stone was taken to Addenbrooke's hospital where he died.
13 September 2004	Patrick Devine	Claudy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland	Patrick Devine was found shot dead in his home at Stranagalawilly on 13 September 2004. The 51-year-old was a sheep farmer and part-time nurse. He was shot six times through his window as he ate his dinner and then at point-blank range three times in the head with a .22 rifle.
November 2004	Alistair Wilson	Nairn	Alistair Wilson, 30, was shot dead on the doorstep of his home in Crescent Road, Nairn near Inverness in November 2004 one Sunday evening after his wife opened their door to the killer. Police have stated that they are not aware of a motive for the murder. Detectives remain puzzled by some peculiarities of the crime. The killer had asked for Wilson by name, and then handed an envelope to Wilson, who took it back inside briefly before returning to the door where he was gunned down; it is unknown what was inside as the killer took it with him when he fled. Police revealed that the gun that killed Wilson was a rare CG Haenel Waffen 1920s pistol, often referred to as a "ladies" gun, and manufactured in Suhl, Germany.
3 August 2005	Lucy Hargreaves	Walton, Liverpool	She was sleeping on the living room sofa at her home in Lambourne Road on August 3, 2005, when the killers struck. Three masked men burst into the address armed with a sawn-off shotgun and shot her twice in the stomach and once to the head from close range. Possibly to try to cover up the murder, the duvet cover Lucy was sleeping under was then covered in petrol and set alight. Gary Campbell, Lucy's boyfriend, was sleeping upstairs with the couple's youngest daughter Faye, and it is believed he could have been the intended target. He escaped the blaze by jumping with his daughter from an upstairs window.
2005	Robert McCartney	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Robert McCartney, 33, was killed during an altercation in Magennis' Bar. He was dragged outside onto Verner Street in the centre of the city and beaten and stabbed. Allegations were made, particularly by friends and relatives of McCartney, that there was involvement of the IRA and Sinn Féin in both the murder and subsequent cover-up. McCartney died of his wounds the following morning.
March 2006	Carlton Alveranga and Richard Austin	Salford	The pair had been hired as hitmen to murder David Totton, and entered the Brass Handles public house to carry out their contract. Although Totton was shot, he survived. His assailants were then disarmed by the bar's patrons and shot dead with their own guns by a person or persons unknown. Alveranga and Austin's hirers were convicted of conspiracy to murder in 2007, but the actual killer or killers remain unidentified.
July 2006	Jim Stanton	Liverpool	Stanton, a used car salesman, was shutting up shop after working late one Monday evening in July 2006, when at around 6 pm, two armed men burst into the car showroom where he worked and opened fire. Although Stanton's colleagues managed to escape to safety, Stanton was stuck behind his desk which was situated just metres from the back wall of the showroom, which subsequently resulted in him receiving a number of fatal shots. The person(s) responsible have never been traced, although police have suggested that they suspect Stanton was not the intended target of the attack. A £20,000 reward has been offered by Merseyside police.
September 2006	Jessie James	Moss Side, Manchester	James was murdered in a drive by shooting in September 2006. It is believed his murder was a case of mistaken identity. Police have been worried about the lack of witnesses coming forward, possibly due to fear of the repercussions.
February 2007	James Andre Smartt-Ford	London	On 3 February at 10:55 pm the Metropolitan Police received a call of a shooting at an ice rink, where around 300 were attending a disco. A youth had shot 17-year-old Smartt-Ford, who had staggered down stairs to the ice and collapsed. He died at midnight in hospital. Although there were multiple witnesses, the killer has not been identified.
2008	Andrew Cunningham	Earlsfield, London	Andrew Cunningham, a 52-year-old convicted paedophile, was found stabbed with his genital mutilated in his caravan outside a haulage yard where he worked. Despite 500 witness statements and a £20,000 reward, no trace of the killer has been found. Police believe it was either a vigilante killing or a robbery.
24 June 2008	Adam Chadwick	Harehills, Leeds	Father-of-one, Adam Chadwick, was shot when a masked gang tried to force their way into his sister's house. Mr Chadwick was watching a film at his sister's house in Clifton Mount, Harehills, when a woman knocked on the door and asked for "Michelle". She knocked again and three masked men tried to force their way in, shooting Adam in the struggle. Despite extensive appeals, including a reconstruction on the BBC's Crimewatch programme and a reward of £10,000, no-one has been convicted. West Yorkshire Police said the men were described as black and wearing masks and camouflage clothing. The woman with them was described as white, aged in her late 20s, around 5 ft 5ins (165 cm) tall with dark brown hair, olive skin and dark eyes.
June 2009	Anthony Otton	Fulham, London	Otton, age 28, was killed by a single bullet through his heart just before 7 pm on 4 June 2009, as he left Geranium House, in Fulham Court, London. On the day of a wake for Darcy Bruce, who was gunned down outside Wandsworth Prison on 1 May, officers from the Metropolitan Police Homicide and Serious Crime Command offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to the killers' prosecution. Family members believe he was the victim of revenge shooting.
2009	Paula Hounslea	Fazakerley, Liverpool	Paula Hounslea was a British victim of an unsolved murder. She had been missing since 22 August 2009 and her body was later found in a fire pit on the loop line cycle path in Fazakerley Liverpool on 5 May 2010 by a dog walker, the body was identified using Hounslea's medical and dental records.
October 2009	Alan Wood	Lound, Lincolnshire	In October 2009, 50-year-old Wood was found dead in his home, tortured – possibly for financial details – and with head wounds and a slit throat. A £60,000 reward and televised appeals have not resulted in a prosecution.

2010s

Year	Name of victim(s)	Location body found	Notes
January 2010	Angel of the Meadow	Angel Meadow, Manchester	In January 2010, the skeletal remains of a woman were discovered hidden under multiple pieces of carpet in Angel Meadow, Manchester. A post-mortem revealed the decedent had suffered a fractured jaw, neck and clavicle prior to her death. Investigators believe the victim was most likely Caucasian aged 18 – 30, and that her murder had occurred between 1975 and 1988.
2010	Niamh and Cayden Adams	Buxton, Derbyshire	Five-year-old Niamh and Cayden, aged two, died in a house fire. Police suspected the arsonist was their 24-year-old mother, Fiona, who escaped the blaze by jumping from a window with her third child, and she was charged. She was later cleared at Nottingham Crown Court of the children's deaths, as well as arson and inflicting grievous bodily harm. Derbyshire Police set up an independent review team after the verdict.
2010	Daniel Smith	Harrow Road, London	Smith, 22, was shot dead as he left a takeaway. It is thought to be a case of mistaken identity. Two years later a jury cleared Kervin Kavuala, Shane Lewis, and Zeleke Forde of murder. Jonathan Yeboah was cleared of related gun crimes.
2010	Imran Farooq	Green Lane, Edgware, North London	Farooq was found dead outside his home in London on 16 September from multiple stab wounds and head injuries.
19 January 2011	Joseph Cummins	Longmoor Lane, Fazakerley, Liverpool	Cummins was shot in the back in the street by an unidentified assailant. The case was dubbed "murder in the mist" by police because of foggy conditions, and a £20,000 reward is available.
February 2011	Lee Duncan	Lauriston Place, Edinburgh	Duncan's body was discovered in his flat in Edinburgh city centre. He had been bludgeoned to death with a hammer. His neighbour Gary Parker was tried in court for the murder but he was found not guilty. The case remains unsolved.
8 August 2011	Trevor Ellis	Croydon, London	During riots in London, Ellis and friends were caught up in a car chase with a group of looters. He was shot in the head shortly after.
17 December 2012	David 'Les' Ross	Corby, Northamptonshire	David 'Les' Ross was found in his hotel room after having suffered injuries to his face, chest and arms, and had probably been rolled into a foetal position. Several people were arrested in the inquiry, but no one was charged. Police said the murder investigation remained open and detectives continued to visit potential witnesses.
13 January 2013	Una Crown	Magazine Lane, Wisbech	Una Crown, 86 and a widow, was found dead in her bungalow on this date. She had been stabbed and set on fire, and had been robbed of her wedding ring and front door key. At least one suspect was arrested but nobody was ever charged.
18 May 2013	Xhem Krasniqi	Church Road, Hove	Kransniqi, 31, was walking with his brother and nephew when the trio were shot at. Kransniqi died and the other two narrowly avoided injury. Edmond Nela, 32, was cleared of murder, two attempted murders, and possessing a gun illegally at a February 2014 trial.
29/30 December 2013	Valerie Graves	Bosham, near Chichester, Sussex	Ms Graves, 55, was found dead by family members at a property at which she was house-sitting over the Christmas and New Year period. She was killed with a claw hammer which was found approximately 600 metres from the murder scene.
24 July 2015	Aivaras Danilevičius	Hawthorn Lane, Bracknell	A body was found wrapped in bin bags and a blanket in Hawthorn Lane, Bracknell, on 24 July 2015. The skull was found to have two injuries indicating blunt force trauma. It is not known how the body got to Hawthorn Lane or who put it there. The man was thought to have been 30–40 years old at the time of his death between 2008 and 2013. In July 2016 he was identified as Aivaras Danilevičius.
14 November 2015	Clocaenog Forest Man	Clocaenog Forest, Wales	On the evening of 14 November 2015, two brothers out camping in woodland found the body of a man who had lain dead for up to 20 years. Detectives believe he was murdered after being struck on the head at another location and then taken to the woods between 1995 and 2005.

See also

• List of people who disappeared mysteriously

External links

• The BBC News Magazine article "When the murder trail goes cold" lists statistics for unsolved murders in the United Kingdom as of May 2010.
• A website devoted to unsolved murders in the UK can be found at Unsolved Murders