2019

At least 137 UK women have been killed by men (or where a man is the principal suspect) in 2019.

1. 1 January 2019: Charlotte Huggins, 33 was stabbed in the early hours of New Year’s Day in London by her ex-partner Michael Rolle, 34. Rolle, who had threatened Charlotte with a knife in the days prior to the femicide, was convicted of her murder.
2. 1 January 2019: Jay Edmunds, 27, was killed in a house fire in Kirton, Lincolnshire, which was deliberately started by her ex-partner Ashley Martin, 32. Martin was also one of three people left dead.
3. 4 January 2019: Simbiso Aretha Moula, 39, was found dead at the home she shared with her husband Garikayi Moula, 51, in Rainham, Essex. An inquest found that Garikayi Moula had strangled Simbiso, before killing himself.
4. 5 January 2019: Sarah Ashraf, 35, was found strangled at her brother’s home in London. Khalid Ashraf, 32, pleaded guilty to manslaughter with diminished responsibility and was detained in a secure hospital.
5. 5 January 2019: Susan Ward, also known is Susie, died of a heart attack after witnessing her son, Adam Burnside, 45, stab her husband at her home in Durham. Adam Burnside was convicted of GBH against Paramijit Singh and the manslaughter of Susan Ward.
6. 9 January 2020: Tracey Lovell, 44, from Cornwall, was shot dead by her partner Tom Bailey, 60, just weeks after moving to Texas, USA, to be with him.
7. 11 January 2019: Asma Begum, 31, was stabbed more than 60 times, mainly in her head and neck by her husband Jalal Uddin, 46, in their home in East London. Uddin was sentenced to 19 years for murder.
8. 13 January 2019: Luz Margory Isaza Villegas, 50, was strangled by her husband Rodrigo Tascon, 55. He shoved her body into a suitcase before setting the suitcase alight. The suitcase containing her charred remains were found in a shallow grave in in Hertfordshire. Tascon, a former police officer in Colombia, was sentenced to 19 years imprisonment.
9. 14 January 2019: Leanne Unsworth, 40, died of head injuries at her home in Burnley. Acquaintance, Shaun Sanders, 39, struck Leanne 21 times over the head with a hammer. She suffered a total of 28 injuries.
10. 15 January 2019: Christy Walshe, 40, was shot in the face at point-blank range by her partner Michael Strudwick, 33, in Southend, Essex.
11. 16 January 2019: Alison Hunt, 42, was stabbed 18 times on the doorstep of her home in Swinton by her ex-partner Vernon Holmes, 47. He was sentenced to 25 years.
12. 22 January 2019: Mary Annie Sowerby, 69, known as Annie, was stabbed repeatedly in her chest and neck by her son, Lee Sowerby, 40, as she sat watching TV in her home in Cumbria. Lee Sowerby was given a life sentence and detained in a secure hospital.
13. 23 January 2019: Julie Webb, 44, was found with serious head injuries in a house in Birmingham and died in hospital the next day. She had also suffered a broken nose and a gash to her forehead. In January 2021, Julie’s partner, Darren Constantine, 37, was convicted of her murder.
14. 27 January 2019: Margaret Smythe, 29, known as Maggie, was missing for six days before police found parts of her body under rubble at a former pub in Bolton where her ex-partner Christopher Taylor, 39, had been working. Her leg was found in a park by a dog walker, her head and arm has not been found. Taylor was sentenced to 24 years for her murder.
15. 29-31 January 2019: Susan Waring, 45, from Darwen, Lancashire, was last seen alive in January 2019. Police believe she was killed between 29-31 January. In April 2021, her partner Alan Edwards, 47, was sentenced to 27 years for her murder. He was also found guilty of GBH, ABH and making threats to kill against four women he had been in a relationship with between 1990 and 2014. Susan’s body has not been

16. 1 February 2019: Mary Page, 68, was kicked and punched by her son, Mathew Page, 40, before he killed her by hitting her over the head with a cabinet door at her home in Wolverhampton. He made a plea of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and was jailed for 6-years.
17. 1 February 2019: Libby Squire, 21, disappeared after a night out in Hull. Her body was found in the Humber estuary 7-weeks later. Pawel Relowicz, 25, who was not known to Libby, was convicted of rape and murder and sentenced to 27 years.
18. 1-2 February 2019: Antoinette Donnegan, 52, was beaten and strangled to death by her lodger, Kristian Smith, 41. A post-mortem found Antoinette had seven broken ribs, a deep gash to her head, and had been strangled by clothing. Smith continued to live in her London flat for five weeks after her death, using her phone and her credit cards.
19. 7 February 2019: Rosie Darbyshire, 27, was beaten to death with a crowbar in a street in Preston by her partner, Benjamin Topping, 25. Rosie suffered at least 50 separate blows and defensive injuries. Topping was sentenced to 20 years for murder.
20. 8 February 2019: Aliny Mendes, also known was Aliny Godinho, 39, was stabbed multiple times as she walked with her daughter to pick up her son from school in Surry. Her ex-husband, Ricardo Godinho, 41, who had a history of violence and abuse, was convicted of murder. An inquest found that police failings contributed to her murder.
21. 11 February 2019: Sarah Henshaw, 40, was attacked with a hammer and then strangled with a vacuum cord whilst in bed in her home in Leeds. Her ex-partner, Kileo Mbega, 32, was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
22. 14 February 2019: Dorothy Bowyer, 77, was stabbed to death by her grandson William Blundson, 23, at her home in Derbyshire. He also killed Dorothy’s pet dog. Blundson pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
23. 15 February 2019: A 73-year-old woman who has not been named died 11 days after being mugged in Birmingham. A 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was convicted of manslaughter.
24. 19 February 2019: Susan Howells, 51, was last seen alive. Dale Tarbox, 39, was convicted of murder. Five weeks before her disappearance in February 2019, Susan reported to police that he had sexually assaulted her. Her body was found buried at a campsite in June 2019, burnt and discomposed. Tarbox continued to withdraw £3,500 in benefit payments from her bank account while she was missing.
25. 25 February 2019: Jodi Miller, 21, was murdered by Kahar Ali, 29, in a flat in Leeds. Ali, who had been harassing Jodi for sex in the days leading up to the attack, had repeatedly demanded to pay her for sex. When she refused again, and Ali was told to leave the flat, he kicked and stabbed Jodi death.
26. 1 March 2019: Jodie Chesney, 17, was with friend in a park in Romford, Essex when she was stabbed in the back. It is believed Jodie was killed by mistake when Svenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, and Arron Issacs, 17, were looking to take revenge on a rival gang. The pair were convicted of murder.
27. 2 March 2019: Elize Stevens, 50, was stabbed 86 times by her partner, Ian Levy, 54, at his flat in north-west London. Levy claimed that he feared she would leave him. He was sentenced to a minimum of 21 years for murder.
28. 6 March 2019: Laureline Garcia-Bertaux, 34, was found naked, wrapped in bin-bags in a shallow grave in her garden in south west London. She had been strangled by her ex-boyfriend Kirill Belorusov, 32. Belorusov was convicted of murder.
29. 7 March 2019: Giselle Marimon-Herrera, 37 and her 15-year-old daughter Allison, were found dead at their home in Newry, Northern Ireland. Giselle was strangled and suffocated by her ex-partner, Russell Steele, 38. Steele then raped and strangled Allison to death, before killing their pet dog and then himself.
30. 7 March 2019: (see above) Allison Marimon-Herrera, 15 and her 37-year-old mother, Giselle, were found dead at their home in Newry, Northern Ireland. Giselle’s ex-partner, Russell Steele, 38, raped and strangled Allison before killing himself and their pet dog.
31. 9 March 2019: Lala Kamara, 26, was strangled to death at her home in Denton, Greater Manchester. Her borther-in-law, Mustapha Dia, 21, was convicted of murder.
32. 10 March 2019: Alice Morrow, 53, was beaten to death by her partner, William Hutchinson, 42, at her home in Belfast. Alice suffered 71 injuries. Hutchinson was convicted of murder.
33. 17 March 2019: Rachel Evans, 46, suffered 100 stab wounds at her partner’s home in Liverpool after she told him she wanted to end the relationship. Carl Harrison, 42, was convicted of murder.
34. 20 March 2019: Alison McKenzie, 55, was killed by her son, Ian McKenzie, 34, in Middleborough. She had seven stab wounds to her head, neck and jugular vein, three further punctures to her face and bruises to her head and body.
35. 22 March 2019: Janette Dunbavand, 81, and her husband John Dunbavand, 81, were found dead in their home in Hertfordshire. John Dundavand shot Janette before shooting himself.
36. 22 March 2019: Tracey McFarquhar, 52, was run down by Costica Mihai, 19, as she attempted to stop him stealing scrap metal from a campsite in Doncaster. Mihai left the scene. He was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 7 years.
37. 27 March 2019: Barbara Heywood, 80, was stabbed to death at her home in Manchester. Her 88-year-old husband Arthur Haywood was arrested on suspicion of her murder and detained under the Mental Health Act. A trial of facts hearing found Arthur Heywood, who had a history of domestic violence and abuse towards Barbara, responsible for her death.
38. 2 April 2019: Paula Meadows, 83, was found strangled at her home in Berkshire. A coroner ruled that her husband, Tony Meadows, had killed Paula before taking his own life.
39. 9 April 2019: Anna Reed, 22, from Harrogate, North Yorkshire, was found dead in Switzerland. A most mortem revealed that she died from asphyxiation and had small fractures and cuts on her body. Her boyfriend Marc Schatzle, 29, was convicted of murder.
40. 17 April 2019: Sarah Fuller, 35, was strangled to death by her partner at their home in Exeter. Jason Carr, 35, was convicted of her murder.
41. 18 April 2019: Lyra McKee, 29, was reporting on rioting in Londonderry in April 2019 when she was shot in the head. The New IRA have claimed responsibility for the shooting. Three men charged with her murder were found not guilty in July 2026.
42. 20 April 2019: Megan Newton, 18, was found at her home in Stoke-on-Trent. She had been raped, stabbed and strangled by Joseph Trevor, 18. Trevor was sentenced to at least 21 years in prison.
43. 21 April 2019: Leah Fray, 27, was found dead in a burning flat in Leicester. She had been beaten with a sauce pan, strangled, bound, gagged and raped by an acquaintance, Curtis Moyse, 18. Moyse was convicted of murder, rape and arson.
44. 23 April 2019: Saima Riaz, 33, was stabbed 75 times by her husband at their home in Rochdale. Mohammed Choudhry, 36, was convicted of murder.
45. 23 April 2019: Sammy-Lee Lodwig, 22, was tied up, gagged and stabbed in her face, neck and chest by her partner, Jason Farrell, 49, at his flat in Swansea. Farrell was convicted of murder.
46. 26 April 2019: Amy Parsons, 35, was bludgeoned to death with a metal bar while she was showering at her home in Whitechapel, causing horrific injuries to her head, face and brain by her partner, Roderick Deakin-White, 37. The court heard that Deakin-White was unwilling to accept Amy’s decision to leave him, due to his coercive behaviour and interest in cross-dressing.
47. 29 April 2019: Emma Faulds, 39, was last seen alive. Her friend, Ross Willox, 40, killed Emma after a party at his home in South Aryshire. Her body was found naked in woodland on 12 June and it was not possible to establish a cause of death. Willox was convicted of murder.
48. 30 April 2019: Lauren Griffiths, 21, was found dead in her flat in Cardiff. She had been strangled and her body wrapped in cling film and bin bags. Her partner, Madog Rowlands, 22, was convicted of murder.
49. 3 May 2019: Ellie Gould, 17, was stabbed and strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend, Thomas Griffiths, 17, at her family home in Wiltshire. A review into the killing found that Griffiths had subjected Ellie to coercive control and psychological abuse.
50. 6 May 2019: Joanne Hamer, 48, was found dead at home in Lincolnshire when police attended due to fears for her safety. She had been strangled with a dressing gown cord by her husband, Ian Hamer, 53. Hamer had spent years controlling Joanne, monitoring her phone, emails and isolating her from friends and family.
51. 10 May 2019: Mavis Long, 77, was strangled to death by her of 57 years at their home in Ceredigion, Powys. Frank Long, 80, was sentenced to three years and four months after pleading guilty to manslaughter.
52. 12 May 2019: Julia Rawson, 42, was last seen alive, her remains were found in two different locations a month later in Tipton, West Midlands. She was identified by her dental records and DNA. Nathan Maynard-Ellis, 28, and David Leesley, 23 were convicted of murder. Maynard-Ellis was convicted for four further counts of rape, one attempted rape and of making threats to kill.
53. 20 May 2019: Tatiana Koudriavtsev, 68 and her 69-year-old husband were stabbed to death by their son Sergey Koudriavtsev, 48, in London.
54. 24 May 2019: Jayde Hall, 26, was found stabbed to death at her home in Stoke-on-Trent just days after ending her relationship with Carl Scott, 46. Scott was found hanging in his prison cell while on remand for her murder. An inquest found that Jayde had been unlawfully killed by Scott.

56. 29 May 2019: Linda Treeby, 64, was found with serious head injuries after emergency services were called to a caravan site on the coast of Lincolnshire. She had been punched, kicked and beaten with an ashtray by her partner Andrew Highton, 50. Highton was convicted of murder.
57. 5 June 2019: Regan Tierney, 27, was found stabbed to death in Salford. Her ex-partner, Daniel Patten, 31, who killed her, died in hospital.
58. 7 June 2019: Paige Gibson, 23, was stabbed to death in Halifax, W. Yorkshire by a 16-year-old male who cannot be named for legal reasons. He has been found guilty of her murder and jailed for 16 years.
59. 9 June 2018: Neomi Smith, 23, was stabbed to death in Aberdeen by her partner, Keith Rizzo, 23. Rizzo forced entry into her home, compressed her neck and then repeatedly struck her on the head and body with knives. At sentencing, the judge described Rizzo as ‘jealous’ and ‘possessive’. He was also abusive towards previous partners.
60. 17 June 2019: Safie Xheta, 35, was killed by knife wounds to the neck at her home in Oxford. Her husband Fatos Xheta, 45, was treated for injuries and later convicted of murder.
61. 20 June 2019: Valerie Richardson, 49, was violently killed in her home in Fife by Ross Thom, 39, said to be a friend of hers, who then killed himself.
62. 24 June 2018: Lucy Rushton, 30, was repeatedly stamped on by her estranged husband Shaun Dyson, 28, at her home in Andover. He was convicted of murder and jailed for a minimum of 17 years.
63. 29 June 2019: Kelly Fauvrelle, 26, was stabbed at her home in Croydon by her ex-partner Aaron McKenzie, 25. McKenzie broke into her home at stabbed her 21 times while she slept. Kelly was heavily pregnant and her baby boy, Riley, who was delivered by Caesarean after the attack died four days later. McKenzie was jailed for 35 years.
64. 29 June 2019: Julia Flynn, 74, died of smoke inhalation when Tyler Flanagan, 20, who was not known to Julia, set fire to her home. Tyler Flanagan denied the murder charge against him, instead pleading guilty to manslaughter. His pea was accepted by the court.
65. 1 July 2019: Joanna Thompson, 50, was strangled and stabbed 118 times by her son, Rowan Thompson, 18, at their home in Hampshire. Rowan was detained under the Mental Health Act and found dead at a secure unit ahead of his trial. An inquest found that Joanna was unlawfully killed by Rowan Thompson.
66. 2 July 2019: Ligita Kostiajeviene, 42, was stabbed at least 30 times when she was attacked by her husband with a knife, a screwdriver and two hammers at her home in Cambridge. Another woman and a nine-year-old child also sustained stab injuries following the attack. Andriejus Kostiajevas, 46, was convicted of murder and must serve at least 28 years.
67. 11 July 2019: Carol Milne, 59, was stabbed 33 times by her son, Jordan Milne, 27, at her home in Aberdeen. The court heard that Carol was frightened of her son’s aggressive behaviour and demands for money. Jordan Milne was detained in a high security mental health facility without time limit.
68. 12 July 2019: Layla Arezo, 74, and her husband Akbar Arezo, 64, were stabbed to death in their home in South West London. Their son, Mustafa Arezo, 31, was convicted of manslaughter and detained indefinitely at a secure hospital.
69. 15 July 2019: Doreen Virgo, 89, was found dead in a respite care home in Norfolk. She had been strangled by her husband Michael Virgo, 81.
70. 18 July 2019: Diane Dyer, 61, was beaten and strangled by her partner, David McCorkell, 54, at her home in Beckenham. She sustained 71 injuries. They had known each other for three months and in the days leading up to the murder, Diane had complained to friends about the way McCorkell was treating her.
71. 21 July 2019: Kayleigh Hanks, 29, was strangled to death in her home in East Sussex by her partner, Ian Paton, 36. Paton was convicted of murder.
72. 25 July 2019: Christine Ford, 71, was hit over the head with a hammer and stabbed 18 times by Brian Coote, 64, at his home in Flamstead, Hertfordshire. Reports suggest he had become ‘infatuated’ with her.
73. 30 July 2019: Kelly-Anne Case, 27, was found dead after a fire at her home in Hampshire. She had been tortured and stabbed by Brendan Rowan-Davies, 28. Kelly-Anne was found on her bed, with her body bound with cable ties by firefighters. Rowan-Davis was convicted of murder.
74. 30 July 2019: Tracey Walker, 40, was stabbed multiple times in the neck and beaten in Lerwick, Shetland during a robbery in which the attackers stole £100. Ross MacDougall, 31, and Dawn Smith, 29, were convicted of murder.
75. 3 August 2019: Dorothy Woolmer, 89, was raped, punched and hit over her head with a truncheon by Reece Dempster, 22. She died of multiple blunt force trauma injuries. Dempster, who had done some gardening for Dorothy in the past, was convicted of rape and murder and sentenced to 34 years in prison.
76. 5 August 2019: Dr Premm Leela Monti, 51, and her partner Robert Tully, 71, were found dead in the home in Lincolnshire. Dr Monti had been strangled and her partner bludgeoned with a hammer. Her son, Andrei-Mihai Simion Munteanu, 22, was found guilty of double murder and given a minimum term of 32 years.
77. 5 August 2016: Kathleen Gold, 78, also known as Gwen, was found dead at her home in Surrey. She died of a gunshot wound. Her husband, Ronald Gold, 83, and their two dogs was also found dead at the scene. Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.
78. 12 August 2019: Lindsay Birbeck, 47, was last seen alive. She was found wrapped in plastic in a shallow grave in a graveyard in Lancashire on 22 August. She had been beaten and strangled in woodland near her home. Rocky Marciano Price, 16, who was not known to Lindsay, was convicted of murder. At trial, the court heard that Marciano Price had been stalking another woman moments before killing Lindsay Birbeck.
79. 17 August 2019: Belinda Rose, 63, a care worker was stabbed to death in Birmingham in a property in which she provided support to residents. She had been stabbed five times by her colleague, Inderjit Ram, 52, during a meeting in which Ram had asked to borrow thousands of pounds from Belinda Rose.
80. 17 August 2019: Pamela Mellor, 55, was found dead in a house in Handforth, Cheshire. She had been beaten around her face and head and strangled by her ex-partner, Matthew Bolland.
81. 19 August 2019: Linda Vilika, 41, was stabbed and strangled to death in her home in Essex. Wilfred Jacob, 42, from whom she had recently separated, was convicted of murder.
82. 25 August 2019: Michelle Pearson, 36, died of injuries from an arson attack at her home in Salford in December 2017. The attack killed four of her children. Zak Bolland and David Worral had both been given four life sentences for the children’s murders in May 2018. In 2021, they were also convicted of the murder of Michelle Pearson.
83. 26 August 2019: Rebecca Simpson, 30, died in hospital after being found with serious head injuries at her home in Castelford, W. Yorkshire. She had been pushed down the stairs by her partner, Ricky Knott, 32.
84. 29 August 2019: Alice Farquharson, 56, was found dead at her home in Aberdeen. She had been strangled to death by her, Keith Farquharson, 60. The ex-police inspector was sentenced to 15 years for murder.
85. 29 August 2019: Laura Rakstelyte, 31, was stabbed to death in the neck and chest in her home in Ilford. Her ex-boyfriend Rahul Malhi, 43, then fatally stabbed himself.
86. 31 August 2019: Sandra Samuels, 44, was beaten to death in her home in Hackney, London. Gavin Lewis, 40, who was homeless and whom she had offered shelter, was convicted of murder. The court heard that Lewis had a history of attacking women in their own homes.
87. 1 September 2019: Janet Lewis, 77, was stabbed and clubbed with a mallet as she slept at her home in Essex. She managed to get into the hallway before she was stabbed again and her carotid artery was severed. Her husband of 60-years, Robert Lewis, 80, was convicted of murder.
88. 6 September 2019: Marlene McCabe, 71, had suffered serious head and face injuries before she was found dead in her home in Blackpool. She had been punched and beaten with a weighted door stop. Her grandson, Conor Clarkson, 25, was given an indefinite hospital order.
89. 9 September 2019: Natalie Harker, 30, was abducted by her ex-partner, Andrew Pearson, 44, while she was on her way to work. Pearson took Natalie to a woodland in Colburn, North Yorkshire and drowned her in a stream. During sentencing for murder, the judge said it was a serious aggravating feature that Andrew Pearson sexually assaulted her while she was unconscious or already dead.
90. 11 September 2019: Lana Nemceva, 33, was found strangled at her home in Burton, Staffordshire. She had been killed by her husband, Kirils Nemcevs, 31, before he killed himself.
91. 12 September 2019: Bethany Fields, 21, was stabbed multiple times in the street in Huddersfield. Her ex-partner, Paul Crowther, 35, was given a life sentence for murder.
92. 18 September 2019: Serafima Mashaka, also known as Sima, 58, was bludgeoned to death at her home in Ealing, W. London. Business associate, Armen Aristakesyan, 41, was convicted of murder.
93. 19 September 2019: Vera Hudson, 57, was hit over her head with a dumbbell weight and strangled in her home in Hull. Her neighbour, Mark Jewitt, 25, was convicted of murder.
94. 19 September 2019: Keely Bunker, 20, was found face down in a pool and covered by brunches in woodlands in Tamworth, Staffordshire. She had been raped and strangled by her childhood friend, Wesley Streete. Streete, 19, was convicted of rape and murder. He was also convicted of two further rape charges and three of sexual assault relating to three other women.
95. 20 September 2019: Wendy Claxton, 70, died when her husband caused her to fall down the stairs of their home in Gateshead. Alan Claxton, 74, a retired police officer with a history fo domestic violence, was convicted of manslaughter.
96. 21 September 2019: Christina Ortiz-Lozano, 28, was stabbed multiple times by her ex-partner, Abdelaziz El Yechioui Ourzat, at her home in Southampton. At the time of her murder, Abdelaziz El Yechioui Ourzat was awaiting sentence for criminal damage and sending malicious communications to Christina after she told him she wanted to end the relationship.
97. 24 September 2019: Emily Goodman, 42, was stabbed in the neck by her partner, Rashid Hussain, before jumping out of his 14^th floor of a block of flats in Oxford. Hussain, 37, had been convicted of common assault against Emily in June and she had told police he had assaulted by him numerous times.
98. 24 September 2019: Katrina Fletcher, 64, was killed by her partner Paul Webster, 62, at their home in Keswick, Cumbria. He had a history of convictions for violence against her.
99. 27 September 2019: Margaret Robertson, 54, also known as Meg, was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death at her home in Aberdeen. Norman Duncan, 40, was convicted of murder.
100. 2 October 2019: Arlene Williams, 46, was stabbed to death at her home in Enfield, London. Her son, Criston Preddie, 28, was given a hospital order.
101. 6 October 2019: Sarah Hassall, 38, was stabbed 22 times by Brian Manship, 37, after meeting in a pub. Her body was found the next morning wrapped in a curtain at Manship’s flat in Pontypridd. Manship was convicted of murder.
102. 8 October 2019: Suvekshya Burathoki, 32, also known as Fatima, was stabbed to death at her home in Leicester. Her former partner, Hafiz Sharifi, 29, was convicted of murder and sentenced to a minimum term of 17 years. The court heard that Sharifi was violent towards Fatima throughout the relationship.
103. 10 October 2019: Niyat Berhane Teklemariam, 21, was found dead with a neck wound after police were called to in a property in N. London. Amanuel Amahatsion,38, died in a central London tube station. Police are treating the two deaths as linked and his death is believed to be suicide.
104. 10 October 2019: Niyat Berhane Teklemariam, (also known as Niyat Beshane) 21, was found dead with a neck wound after police were called to a property in N. London. Her husband Amanuel Amahatsion, 38, died in a central London tube station. Police confirmed that he was deemed responsible for her death in an ‘information release’.
105. 10 October 2019: Lesley Spearing, 55, was stabbed and stamped on by her son at her home in Rainham, Essex. Her son, Jamie Burnett, 27, was found unfit to stand trial due to mental illness. A trial of facts hearing found that he was responsible for killing Lesley Spearing. He was detained in a secure hospital.
106. 20 October 2019: Kirsty Robertson, 29, was killed at her home in Ayr, Scotland. David Hose, 30, has been convicted of her rape and murder. He has also been convicted of raping another women in 2017.
108. 22 October 2019: Thi Tra My Pham, 26, was one of eight women, along with 29 men and two 15-year-old boys, who died of suffocation and hyperthermia in the locked trailer of a refrigerated lorry travelling from Europe to Greys, Essex. Four men: Maurice Robinson, 25; Ronan Hughes, 40; Eammon Harrison, 23 and Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted of 39 counts of manslaughter and charges related to the smuggling of people for unlawful immigration.
109. 22 October 2019: Thi Van Nguyen, 35, was one of eight women, along with 29 men and two 15-year-old boys, who died of suffocation and hyperthermia in the locked trailer of a refrigerated lorry travelling from Europe to Greys, Essex. Four men: Maurice Robinson, 25; Ronan Hughes, 40; Eammon Harrison, 23 and Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted of 39 counts of manslaughter and charges related to the smuggling of people for unlawful immigration.
110. 22 October 2019: Thi Nhung Bui, 19, also known as Anna, was one of eight women, along with 29 men and two 15-year-old boys, who died of suffocation and hyperthermia in the locked trailer of a refrigerated lorry travelling from Europe to Greys, Essex. Four men: Maurice Robinson, 25; Ronan Hughes, 40; Eammon Harrison, 23 and Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted of 39 counts of manslaughter and charges related to the smuggling of people for unlawful immigration.
111. 22 October 2019: Thi Thanh Tran, 41, was one of eight women, along with 29 men and two 15-year-old boys, who died of suffocation and hyperthermia in the locked trailer of a refrigerated lorry travelling from Europe to Greys, Essex. Four men: Maurice Robinson, 25; Ronan Hughes, 40; Eammon Harrison, 23 and Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted of 39 counts of manslaughter and charges related to the smuggling of people for unlawful immigration.
112. 22 October 2019: Thi Tho Tran, 21, was one of eight women, along with 29 men and two 15-year-old boys, who died of suffocation and hyperthermia in the locked trailer of a refrigerated lorry travelling from Europe to Greys, Essex. Four men: Maurice Robinson, 25; Ronan Hughes, 40; Eammon Harrison, 23 and Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted of 39 counts of manslaughter and charges related to the smuggling of people for unlawful immigration.
113. 22 October 2019: Thi Nhgoc Oanh Pham, 28, was one of eight women, along with 29 men and two 15-year-old boys, who died of suffocation and hyperthermia in the locked trailer of a refrigerated lorry travelling from Europe to Greys, Essex. Four men: Maurice Robinson, 25; Ronan Hughes, 40; Eammon Harrison, 23 and Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted of 39 counts of manslaughter and charges related to the smuggling of people for unlawful immigration.
114. 22 October 2019: Thi Mai Nhung Tran, 18, was one of eight women, along with 29 men and two 15-year-old boys, who died of suffocation and hyperthermia in the locked trailer of a refrigerated lorry travelling from Europe to Greys, Essex. Four men: Maurice Robinson, 25; Ronan Hughes, 40; Eammon Harrison, 23 and Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted of 39 counts of manslaughter and charges related to the smuggling of people for unlawful immigration.
115. 22 October 2019: Thi Ngoc Tran, 19, was one of eight women, along with 29 men and two 15-year-old boys, who died of suffocation and hyperthermia in the locked trailer of a refrigerated lorry travelling from Europe to Greys, Essex. Four men: Maurice Robinson, 25; Ronan Hughes, 40; Eammon Harrison, 23 and Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted of 39 counts of manslaughter and charges related to the smuggling of people for unlawful immigration.
116. 25 October 2019: Annie Temple, 97, was found dead in her bed. Although she had been killed by blunt force trauma to her head and body, and her airways had been obstructed and constricted, police did not initially recognise her death as suspicious. Three weeks later, Sandeep Patel, 38, the son of her late GP, was charged in relation to her death. He was found guilty of defrauding her and in 2021, of her murder.
117. 26 October 2019: Beatrice Yankson, 59, died of burns and smoke inhalation in a fire at her home in London. Her son Joel Ellis, 35, was convicted of manslaughter and arson. He was detained indefinitely in a secure hospital.
118. 28 October 2019: Evie Adams, 23, was poisoned with Tramadol and Diazepam over a number of days by her partner, Jordan Monaghan, 30. Monaghan, from Blackburn, was also convicted of the murder of his daughter of 24 days on 1 January 2013 and of his 21-month-old son on 17 August 2013 and two counts of attempted murder of another daughter. He was sentenced to a minimum term of 48 years.
119. 3 November 2019: Levi Ogden, 26, was killed when her partner, Lloyd Birkby, threw a mobile phone at her neck in a street in Halifax, W. Yorkshire, causing cardiac arrest and a bleed on her brain. Birkby, 26, whom she had repeatedly reported to police for domestic violence, was convicted of manslaughter.
120. 9 November 2019: Tsegereda Gebremariam, 29, was found stabbed to death at a house in Moseley. It is believed she was murdered by her ex-husband, Michael Tesfamariam, 28, who then killed himself.
121. 13 November 2019: Nicola Stevenson, 39, was found dead in a wheelie bin in Lewes, E. Sussex. She had been killed by her lodger, Richard Canlin, 41, when she asked him to move out. Her body laid undiscovered for a month and in that time, Canlin continued to live in her home and spend her money. He was convicted of murder.
122. 13 November 2019: Mandeep Singh, 39, was beaten to death with a mallet by her husband, Kulvinder Singh, 57, at their home in Nottingham. Kulvinder Singh, was found hanging at the scene. A coroner concluded that Mandeep had been unlawfully killed by her husband.
123. 21 November 2019: Alison McBlain, was stuck by a car as she walked along a street in Blackburn. Three men: Dean Qayum, 20, Kaylib Connolly, 18 and Joshua Titterington, 26 were convicted of murder. John Chatwood, 25, was convicted of manslaughter.
124. 27 November 2019: Katy Sprague, 51, was found dead in supported accommodation in Cambridgeshire. She had been strangled by another resident, Zac Jackson, 36, in the common room. The court heard that in the lead up to the attack Jackson had threatened to kill Katy and members of staff.
125. 27 November 2019: Saskia Jones, 23, was stabbed by Usman Khan, 28, in the London Bridge terror attack. Jack Merritt, was also fatally stabbed in the attack. Usman Khan was shot dead by police.
126. 12 December 2019: Djolanda Jakubowski, 50, was stabbed to death at her home in Watford, Hertfordshire. Her son, Marcin Jakubowski, 18, pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to a minimum of 13 years and 223 days.
127. were acquitted of charges relating to her murder, but the acquittal was appealed and the country’s supreme court ruled that there should be a new trial in front of three different judges. At the time of writing (August 2026) no further information has been released.
128. 15 December 2019: Marion Price, 63, was found dead in her car in Earls Burton, Northamptonshire. She had been shot. Her estranged husband, Michael Reader, 69 and his friend Stephen Welch, 60, were convicted of murder.
129. 16 December 2019: Jolanta Jacubowska, 50, was stabbed to death at a house in Watford. She suffered 29 stab wounds. Her son, 17, who has not been named, was given a life sentence of her murder.
130. 17 December 2019: Kayleigh Dunning, 32, was beaten with a crowbar and stabbed in her neck by her partner, Mark Brandford, 48, at his flat in Portsmouth. He was given a life sentence for murder.
131. 18 December 2019: Nelly Myers, 58, was punched, kicked and stamped on by her partner, Jayesh Gobar, 35, at her home in East Sussex. Gobar was convicted of murder.
132. 19 December 2019: Angela Tarver, 86, was decapitated with an ornamental sword by her son, Philip Tarver, 47, at their home in Woking, Surrey. Tarver was convicted of murder and threats to kill his father.
133. 22 December 2019: Amy Appleton, 32, was chased out of her house in West Sussex and attacked on her driveway by her husband, Daniel Appleton, 37. When passerby, Sandra Seagrave, 76, tried to intervene Appleton beat her to death with her walking stick. He then used the metal walking stick to bludgeon Amy Appleton to death.
134. 22 December 2019: Sandra Seagrave, 76, was beaten to death with her own walking stick by Daniel Appleton, 37. She had intervened as he was attacking Amy Appleton, 32. Daniel Appleton was convicted of double murder and sentenced to a minimum term of 26 and a half years.
135. 23 December 2009: Frances Murray, 37, and her partner, Joseph Dutton, 37, were beaten to death by neighbour, Steven McBrine, 35. Frances Murray was also stabbed in the neck. McBrine was convicted of double manslaughter.
136. 25 December 2019: Vivienne Bryan, 74, was stabbed to death at home in Fairbourne, N.Wales by her husband of 54 years, Thomas Bryan, 75.
137. 31 December 2019: Stacey Cooper, 34, was found dead in her home in Redcar, Cleveland. Her partner, Liam Murray, 27, was charged with murder. In January 2020, was found hanging in his cell.

In addition

1. March 2019: A woman whose body was found in a stream in the Yorkshire Dales in 2004 was identified as Lamduan Seekanya/Armitage. She lived in the UK between 1991 and 2004. The exact cause of death has never been established as her soft tissue had started to disintegrate when she was found. Police are asking for information from anyone who knew her.
2. 26 April 2019: Mihrican Mustapha, 38, was one of two women whose bodies were found in a freezer in East London. Mihrican had been reported missing by her family in May 2018. Zahid Younis, 35, of Newham, east London, was convicted of the murders of both women in 2020.
3. 26 April 2019: Henriett Szuchs was one of two women whose bodies were found in a freezer in East London. Police were trying to establish whether she had been seen alive since a contact with someone in her native Hungary in 2016. Zahid Younis, 35, of Newham, east London, was convicted of the murders of both women in 2020.
4. 12 July 2019: The remains of Brenda Venables were found in a sceptic tank. She had been ‘missing’ since in 1982. Her husband from that time, David Venables, 89, was found guilty of her murder in 2022.

Last updated 18 August 2026.