List of major crimes in the United Kingdom

This is a list of major crimes in the United Kingdom and Crown dependencies that received significant media coverage and/or led to changes in legislation.Legally each deliberate and unlawful killing of a human being is murder;[1] there is no crime of assassination or serial killing as such, for example.Murder is the unlawful killing of another person without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought.England
Unsolved murders in the UKUnited Kingdommurderassassinationserial killingFanny AdamsHampshiredismemberedsolicitor's clerkMurder of Muriel DrinkwaterSwanseaPenllergaerTeddington towpath murdersNotting HillTeddingtonMurder of Roy TutillSurreyMurder of Mark TildesleyWokinghamBerkshireMurder of James BulgerMerseysideBootleMurder of Stephen LawrenceMurder of Richard EverittSomers TownBritish BangladeshisWhite BritishMurder of Victoria ClimbiéNorth Middlesex University HospitalEdmontonIvory CoastLondonfoster careWitchcraftdemonically possessedKilling of Peter ConnellyHaringeyNorth Londonbroken backfractured ribsMurder of April JonesMachynllethMurder of Breck BednarCaterhamGrays, Essexonline gamingMurder of Alesha MacPhailRothesay, ButeAirdrie, North LanarkshireIsle of ButeFacebookMurder of Arthur Lambinjo-HughesWest MidlandsShirleyMetropolitan Borough of SolihullCOVID-19 pandemicjustificationexcusemalice aforethoughtRed Barn MurderPolsteadSuffolkLord William RussellLord John RussellfingerprintsMurder of Gay GibsonPortuguese GuineaSouth AfricaBelgraviaJohn Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucanlegally deadWhite House Farm murdersTolleshunt D'ArcyJeremy Bamberwhole life orderJerseyGibraltarRoyal NavyM25 motorwayGreater LondonKenneth Noyeroad rageparoleMurder of Jill DandoFulhamKosovo WarMurder of Sarah PayneWest SussexRoy WhitingMurder of Lee RigbyMurder of Jo CoxBirstall, West YorkshireJo CoxLabourBirstall, West Yorkshirewhite supremacyNazismMurder of Joy Morganlife imprisonmentMurder of Sarah EverardCOVID-19Murder of David AmessLeigh-on-Seaconstituency surgeryIslamic Statepreparation of terrorist actsHungerford massacreSavernake ForestWiltshireHungerfordDunblane massacreDunblaneStirlingmass shootingCumbria shootingsWest CumbriaSellafield nuclear sitejoinerHM Revenue and CustomsPlymouth shootingKeyham, Plymouthwelfare checkinceldomnihilismWilliam Burke and William HareEdinburghanatomyMary Ann CottonarsenicJack the RipperWhitechapelJohn ChristieTimothy EvansIan Brady and Myra HindleyManchesterSaddleworth MoorAshworth HospitalBible JohnGlasgowBarrowland BallroomPeter SutcliffeWest YorkshireBroadmoor HospitalDennis NilsenMuswell HillRose WestGloucesterGloucestershireBeverley AllittGranthamLincolnshireHarold ShipmanGreater Manchestergeneral practitionerLucy LetbyCountess of Chester HospitalMedomsley Detention CentreDurhamJimmy SavileStoke Mandeville HospitalLeeds General InfirmaryDerby child sex abuse ringDerbyshiresexual abuseReynhard SinagaCrown Prosecution ServiceCorruption in the United KingdomGangs in the United KingdomList of terrorist incidents in Great BritainList of killings by law enforcement officers in the United KingdomList of heists in the United KingdomList of unsolved murders in the United KingdomTerrorism in the United KingdomOxford English DictionaryOxford University PressBBC NewsThe IndependentIndependent.co.ukThe GuardianAlbaniaArmeniaAustriaAzerbaijanBelgiumBulgariaCyprusCzech RepublicDenmarkEstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryKazakhstanLatviaMoldovaMontenegroNorwayPolandPortugalRomaniaRussiaSerbiaSlovakiaSloveniaSwedenSwitzerlandTurkeyUkraineVatican CityKosovoTransnistria