List of mass stabbings in the United Kingdom
This is an incomplete list of mass stabbings in the United Kingdom. As definitions of a mass stabbing can differ, this article uses the definition of at least three people being stabbed. Weapons which can be used in mass stabbings include knives, scissors, swords, hammers, screwdrivers, ice picks, bayonets, axes, machetes and glass bottles.
2020s[edit]
| Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 April 2024 | Hainault, London, England | 1 | 4 | 5 |
A man crashed his vehicle into a house before walking around stabbing people. A 14-year-old boy was killed and four others were wounded before the attacker was arrested.[1] |
| 24 April 2024 | Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales | 0 | 3 | 3 | Three people were stabbed at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman, a comprehensive school in Ammanford.[2] |
| 12 January 2024 | Brighton, East Sussex, England | 0 | 3 | 3 | A group of friends were attacked in the North Laine.[3] |
| 27 December 2023 | Liverpool, England | 0 | 3 | 3 | Three men were stabbed near the Sir Thomas Hotel on Victoria Street.[4] |
| 22 December 2023 | Westminster, London, England | 0 | 3 | 3 | Three men were taken to hospital with knife wounds after police found them on Ganton Street and in the surrounding area.[5] |
| 10 December 2023 | Liverpool, England | 1 | 2 | 3 | Two men and a woman were taken to hospital with stab and slash wounds sustained from a property in Toxteth. One of the men later died in hospital.[6] |
| 13 November 2023 | Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire, England | 2 | 1 | 3 | Two men were killed and another seriously injured after they were stabbed during an attack following an altercation earlier in the day.[7] |
| 1 October 2023 | Halifax, West Yorkshire, England | 2 | 1 | 3 | Three men were taken to hospital after being stabbed in the town centre, two of whom later died.[8] |
| 29 September 2023 | Luton, Bedfordshire, England | 1 | 2 | 3 | Three teenagers were stabbed, one fatally, on Nunnery Lane.[9] |
| 9 August 2023 | Harrow, London, England | 1 | 2 | 3 | Two men were found with stab wounds on Wellesley Road, followed by another who was later found nearby. One of the men died at the scene, whilst the other two were taken to hospital.[10] |
| 13 June 2023 | Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England | 3 | 0 | 3 | Three people were fatally stabbed at two locations in the centre of Nottingham as part of a wider attack.[11] |
| 30 April 2023 | Bodmin, Cornwall, England | 1 | 7 | 8 | One man was killed and seven other people injured after an altercation outside a nightclub in Bodmin.[12] |
| 13 February 2023 | Walthamstow, London, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four men were injured, one critically, after a machete attack at a pub.[13] |
| 5 November 2022 | Portsmouth, Hampshire, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four men were stabbed outside a nightclub in Portsmouth.[14] |
| 25 April 2022 | Bermondsey, London, England | 4 | 0 | 4 | Four people were killed in a three-bedroomed terraced house.[15] |
| 18 September 2021 | Killamarsh, Derbyshire, England | 4 | 0 | 4 | A man killed his pregnant partner, her two children and one of their friends by striking them over their heads with a claw hammer at his home in Killamarsh.[16] |
| 6 September 2020 | Birmingham, England | 1 | 7 | 8 | A man with schizophrenia killed a man and injured seven others during a series of seemingly random knife attacks.[17] |
| 26 July 2020 | Moss Side, Manchester, England | 1 | 3 | 4 | Four people were stabbed, one fatally, in an incident which occurred as a result of a gangland feud. The attackers were armed with a knife, machete and imitation handgun.[18] |
| 26 June 2020 | Glasgow, Scotland | 0 | 6 | 6 | Six people, including a police officer, were seriously injured when a man stabbed them at the Park Inn Hotel in Glasgow's city centre.[19] |
| 20 June 2020 | Reading, Berkshire, England | 3 | 3 | 6 | A man armed with a kitchen knife attacked six people in Forbury Gardens, killing three and seriously injuring three others.[20] |
2010s[edit]
| Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 November 2019 | City of London, London, England | 2 | 3 | 5 |
A man armed with two kitchen knives stabbed multiple people inside Fishmongers' Hall and on the north side of London Bridge.[21] |
| 11 October 2019 | Manchester, England | 0 | 5 | 5 | Five people were injured, one seriously, after a man started attacking people at the Arndale Centre in Manchester.[22] |
| 31 December 2018 | Manchester, England | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Three people, including a British Transport Police officer, were seriously injured after a man attacked them at Manchester Victoria station.[23] |
| 27 November 2018 | Edmonton, London, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four men were found with stab wounds following a fight apparently related to a shooting which happened the day before.[24] |
| 3 June 2017 | Southwark, London, England | 6 | 48 | 54 |
Three attackers armed with ceramic knives killed six people and injured 48, 21 critically, in the Borough Market area in central London.[25] |
| 4 March 2017 | Bristol, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four people were stabbed during a large fight outside a popular nightclub in Bristol.[26] |
| 3 August 2016 | Bloomsbury, London, England | 1 | 5 | 6 |
A man killed one person and injured five others, one seriously, in a stabbing attack in Russell Square.[27] |
| 5 December 2015 | Leytonstone, London, England | 0 | 3 | 3 |
A man armed with a bread knife injured three people at Leytonstone tube station, one of them seriously.[28] |
| 14 August 2011 | St Helier, Jersey | 6 | 1 (the perpetrator) | 7 |
A man armed with two kitchen knives killed six people, including four members of his family, before repeatedly stabbing himself in the chest.[29] |
| 29 April 2011 | Wootton, Northamptonshire, England | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Four people, all members of the same family, were found stabbed to death at their home on 1 May 2011.[30] |
2000s[edit]
| Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 December 2004 | London, Greater London, England | 1 | 5 | 6 | A man killed one person and critically injured five others after "rampaging" through the Green Lanes area of London.[31] |
1990s[edit]
| Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 December 1994 | Birmingham, England | 1 | 9 | 10 | A man with two knives stabbed ten people in a Netto supermarket, killing one.[32][33] |
| 8 December 1994 | Birmingham, England | 0 | 15 | 15 |
A man injured 15 women, three seriously, with a butcher knife and a bread knife in a Rackhams department store.[34] |
| 28 March 1994 | Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England | 1 | 2 | 3 | One girl was killed and two others injured when a masked man armed with a shotgun and knives burst into their classroom at Hall Garth School and stabbed them.[35] |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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