GB incident archive
Source-backed homicide and attempted homicide records documented in GB. This page summarizes the archive's documented floor for the country; it is not an official total or a representative sample.
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- Documented records
- 15
- Cities represented
- 11
- Latest incident date
- 8 August 2026
- Latest review
- 14 August 2026
Documented floor by year
| Year | Documented here | Official reference |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 13 records | — |
| 2025 | 2 records | — |
No Eurostat reference series is currently loaded for GB.
Current judicial status
- 3Alleged
- 9Charged
- 2On trial
- 1Convicted
Latest judicial-status entries
- Leicester, GB
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- Birmingham, GB
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- Edinburgh, GB
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- Leicester, GB
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- Glasgow, GB
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- Belfast, GB
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- Edinburgh, GB
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- Haytor Vale, GB
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Latest documented records
- Homicide in birmingham, GB
· Charged · 3 sources
A 32-year-old man was stabbed to death on Chester Road in Sutton Coldfield, in the City of Birmingham, in the early hours of Saturday 8 August 2026. Police were called shortly after midnight and found him at the scene, where he died. A man in his 20s was arrested on suspicion of murder the same day and held in custody. West Midlands Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the killing and that the suspect and the victim were thought to have known each other. On Sunday 9 August a 20-year-old was charged with murder and remanded in custody to appear before magistrates in Birmingham the following day. The victim's family asked for their privacy to be respected.
- Homicide in glasgow, GB
· Alleged · 2 sources
A 44-year-old man was found seriously injured in the close of a block of flats on Burgher Street, in the Parkhead area of the east end of Glasgow, at about 3pm on Friday 24 July 2026. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police Scotland launched a murder investigation led by the Major Investigation Team. Detectives have appealed for witnesses and asked anyone in the Burgher Street or Parkhead Cross area on the day, or in the days before, to come forward and to check private CCTV and dash-cam footage. No arrest has been reported and enquiries into the full circumstances are continuing.
- Homicide in leicester, GB
· Charged · 2 sources
A 24-year-old man died after being stabbed in De Montfort Place, off London Road, in Leicester on 22 July 2026. Four men, aged 18, 19, 20 and 21, have been charged with murder. All four also face one count of having an imitation firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence and one count of possession of a knife or bladed article in a public place. A fifth man, aged 21, has been charged with assisting an offender. All five were due to appear at Leicester Magistrates' Court on 27 July 2026. Leicestershire Police said a 33-year-old man who had been arrested on suspicion of murder was released with no further action. Two men aged 52 and two women aged 43, arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, were released on bail.
- Homicide in edinburgh, GB
· Charged · 2 sources
A 44-year-old woman was found with serious injuries at a house on Craigievar Square in Edinburgh on the evening of 20 July 2026 and was pronounced dead at the scene. A 46-year-old man, her former partner, was charged with her murder and appeared in court on 23 July 2026. On the morning of 26 July 2026 the accused was found dead at HMP Edinburgh. Police Scotland said there did not appear to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding that death and that a report would be submitted to the procurator fiscal. No court disposal of the murder charge has been reported. On 30 July 2026 the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner announced an investigation into the circumstances leading to the death, following police contact with the victim before the killing. A report on that investigation is to be submitted to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.
- Homicide in belfast, GB
· Charged · 1 source
A 44-year-old man was seriously injured in an attack inside Eithne House on Duncairn Parade, in the New Lodge area of north Belfast, on Monday 20 July 2026. He was taken to hospital and died there of his injuries two days later. A 41-year-old man appeared at Belfast Magistrates' Court on Friday 24 July charged with the murder. A police officer told the court she could connect him to the charges; there was no application for bail and he was remanded into custody. Two other men, aged 40 and 32, who had been arrested earlier in the week on suspicion of attempted murder, were released unconditionally.
- Homicide in hayes, GB
· Alleged · 2 sources
The victim, a 24-year-old woman, was fatally stabbed at a property on Uxbridge Road, Hayes, west London on 12 July. A second victim, a man in his 20s, was found outside the property with stab injuries and survived. A 44-year-old suspect matching the attacker's description was arrested nearby on suspicion of murder and possession of a bladed article; he was hospitalized with injuries believed to have been sustained jumping from a window.
- Homicide in wandsworth, GB
· Charged · 2 sources
The victim, a man, is believed to have come to harm at a property in Wandsworth on 9 July; his body was later found inside a suitcase in a wooded area at Borstal Recreation Ground, Rochester, Kent. Two men known to the victim were arrested; one has been charged with murder and preventing a lawful burial, the other with preventing a lawful burial. A third man arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender has been bailed.
- Homicide in haytor vale, GB
· Charged · 1 source
A 78-year-old woman, a former Member of Parliament and party spokesperson, was found dead with serious injuries by the ambulance service at her home in Haytor Vale, on Dartmoor in Devon, at 11:40 on 9 July 2026. Devon and Cornwall Police said they believed she had been attacked the previous day at around 12:30. On 20 July the Crown Prosecution Service announced that a 28-year-old man from Rotherham had been charged with her murder and would appear at Westminster magistrates' court. The chief crown prosecutor of the CPS special crime and counter-terrorism division said the decision to prosecute followed a police investigation into the death, and that inquiries into the defendant's motives were continuing, including a possible political or terrorist motivation.
- Homicide in bedford, GB
· Charged · 2 sources
A mother and her two young daughters were found dead at a property near Bedford. A murder investigation was launched by Bedfordshire police, who said the suspect, known to the victims, was believed to have fled the country. He was later arrested in South Africa following an international manhunt involving UK, Zimbabwean, and South African authorities, and the Crown Prosecution Service authorised three counts of murder against him. He was remanded in custody in South Africa pending extradition to the UK.
- Attempted homicide in birmingham, GB
· Charged · 5 sources
The 16-year-old boy was taken to hospital after the shooting in the Alum Rock area of the city. A later source reported that a teenager was charged with attempted murder.
- Homicide in sheffield, GB
· Charged · 2 sources
Detectives have said the victim was simply an innocent bystander after she was fatally shot near the One Four One bar on West Street in Sheffield.
- Homicide in leicester, GB
· On trial · 1 source
the suspect put the victim in the recovery position and left the park
- Homicide in leicester, GB
· On trial · 1 source
A 20-year-old university student was stabbed to death in Oxford Street, close to De Montfort University's Innovation Centre in Leicester, shortly after 5pm on 3 February 2026. An 18-year-old student at a different Leicester university went on trial for his murder at Leicester Crown Court on 10 August 2026. He denies the charges against him, which also include possessing a bladed article and failing to provide the PIN for his phone. The trial is expected to last three weeks. Opening the prosecution case, counsel for the Crown told the jury that the two men had known each other from online gaming and had fallen out over money the defendant believed he was owed, including over a watch the victim had given him to sell which turned out to be a counterfeit. The Crown alleges the defendant attacked the victim in the street over that perceived debt. The jury was told the encounter lasted seconds and was captured on dashcam footage, that the victim was stabbed five times in the chest, and that one wound, 13cm deep, penetrated his heart and caused his death. Four other chest wounds did not contribute to death and a defensive wound was found on his hand. He collapsed in the street and never regained consciousness. A passing driver stopped to help him.
- Attempted homicide in edinburgh, GB
· Convicted · 2 sources
A 30-year-old woman was stabbed repeatedly on Duke Street in Leith, Edinburgh, in November 2025, as she walked to a GP appointment with her young daughter in a pram. Her estranged husband, from whom she had moved away, approached them in the street, told her he had a knife, seized her by the hair and stabbed her about the head and body. Three men who witnessed the attack came to her aid, disarmed him and held him until police arrived. She sustained twelve injuries, including facial scarring and a collapsed lung, and spent four days in hospital. The couple had married abroad about four years before the attack and had moved to London, where their daughter was born. After the relationship broke down the victim and the child moved to Edinburgh, where he tracked them down — which the sentencing judge said indicated a degree of foresight. In August 2026 the man, 26, admitted attempted murder at the High Court in Edinburgh and was jailed for seven and a half years. The judge described a sustained attack on a defenceless victim, said she could have died and that her survival owed to a combination of luck and the intervention of passers-by, and commended those who stepped in. He was also banned from contacting her for life.
- Homicide in liverpool, GB
· Alleged · 1 source
A woman of 68 was found with a blunt-force head injury at her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, just after 12.30pm on Saturday 4 October 2025. Merseyside Police opened a murder investigation into her death. A 37-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of her murder in May 2026 and remains on conditional bail. No charge had been brought at the time of the cited report. On 14 August 2026, on what would have been the victim's 69th birthday, her family made a public appeal for anyone with information to contact the police or pass it anonymously to Crimestoppers, which is offering a reward of up to £20,000 for information leading to an arrest. The senior investigating officer said detectives believe the answers lie within the local community and that people with information have not yet come forward.