Major Crimes in Britain
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Major crimes in Britain
| Date | Name | Deaths | Location | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1886 | The Pimlico Mystery | 1 | Pimlico, London, England | Following the suspicious death of Thomas Edwin Bartlett, his wife Adelaide is brought up on charges of murder. While it is indeed found that Bartlett's stomach contained a fatal quantity of chloroform (although had not caused any damage to his throat or windpipe), Adelaide Bartlett was acquitted possibly due to the fact that the prosecution were unable to explain the cause of death or how she could have committed the crime. |
| 1888 | Jack the Ripper | 5+ | Whitechapel, London, England | At least five prostitutes are murdered and then mutilated by an unidentified serial killer known only as "Jack the Ripper" as dubbed by the press. The murderer eventually disappears and is never apprehended. |
| 1910 | Dr Crippen case | 1 | Holloway, London, England | |
| 1911 | The Siege of Sidney Street | 4 | East End, London, England | |
| 1915 | Brides in the Bath Murders | 3 | Leicester, East Midlands, England | |
| 1929 | Podmore Case | 1 | Southampton, South East England, England | |
| 1931 | The Vera Page Case | 1 | Notting Hill, London, England | |
| 1934 | Brighton trunk murders | 2 | Brighton, England | |
| 1946 | The Chalkpit Murder | 1 | Wimbledon, London, England | |
| 1949 | The Acid Bath Murderer | 6-8 | London, England | |
| 1952 | Bentley and Craig | 1 | Croydon, Surrey, England | |
| 1953 | 10 Rillington Place | 8 | Notting Hill, London, England | |
| 1955 | Ruth Ellis | 1 | Hampstead, London, England | |
| 1961 | The A6 Murder | 1 | Clophill, Bedfordshire, England | |
| 1963 | The Great Train Robbery | 0 | Ledburn, Buckinghamshire, England | |
| 1965 | The Moors Murders | 4 | Oldham, Lancashire, England | |
| 1966 | Shepherd's Bush Murders | 3 | Shepherd's Bush, West London, England | |
| 1965-66 | The Kray-Richardson Gang War | 8 | North-South London, England | |
| 1968 | The Krays | 8 | London, England | |
| 1969 | Bible John | 3(?) | Glasgow, Scotland | |
| 1978 | The Carl Bridgewater Case | 1 | Wordsley, West Midlands, England | |
| 1981 | The Yorkshire Ripper | 13 | Yorkshire, England | |
| 1984 | The shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher | 1 | St. James's Square, London, England | |
| 1987 | Hungerford massacre | 17 | Hungerford, Berkshire, England | Michael Ryan went a rampage in a small rural town in England, shooting people at random (including his own mother) with an array of firearms before killing himself. |
| 1993 | The abduction and murder of Jamie Bulger | 1 | Walton, Merseyside, England | |
| 1993 | The murder of Stephen Lawrence | 1 | Eltham, South London | |
| 1994 | The House of Horrors Fred West case | 14(+?) | Gloucester, England | |
| 1996 | Dunblane massacre | 18 | Dunblane, Scotland | A gunman murders 16 children and their teacher at a primary school in Scotland before shooting himself dead. |
| 1998 | Harold Shipman | 250+ | Hyde, Tameside, England | |
| 1999 | The Jill Dando Murder | 1 | Fulham, West London, England | |
| 2000 | The murder of Sarah Payne | 1 | East Preston, West Sussex, England | |
| 2001 | The murder of Damilola Taylor | 1 | Peckham, London, England | |
| 2001 | The Torso in the Thames case | 1 | River Thames, London, England | The discovery a human torso floating in the River Thames on September 21, 2001 is eventually revealed to be the remains of a recently arrived Nigerian boy, between the ages of four and seven. Although the child is thought to be a victim of a ritual killing, the London Metropolitan Police Service have yet to apprehend those responsible. |
| 2002 | The Soham murders | 2 | Soham, Cambridgeshire, England | Two ten-year-old children, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, are murdered by local school caretaker Ian Huntley after luring them into his home. The search for the two girls is one of the longest undertaken by British authorities. |
