This is an incomplete list of mass stabbings in the United Kingdom.
| Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 July 2025 | Bermondsey, London, England | 2 | 2 | 4 | Two men killed and another two were injured following a stabbing at a business; one of the injured was subsequently arrested. [1] |
| 17 May 2025 | Thamesmead, London, England | 0 | 5 | 5 | Five men were stabbed during a fight at a music event; all of them were subsequently arrested. [2] |
| 23 January 2025 | Beddington, London, England | 0 | 5 | 5 | Five people were injured after being stabbed at a warehouse. [3] |
| 29 July 2024 | Southport, Merseyside, England | 3 | 10 | 13 | Three children were killed and 10 people, eight of whom were children, injured after a man attacked a children's Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga event. [4] |
| 30 April 2024 | Hainault, London, England | 1 | 4 | 5 | A 14-year-old boy was killed and four other people injured after a man crashed his vehicle into a house before walking around stabbing people. [5] |
| 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. [6] |
| 13 February 2023 | Walthamstow, London, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four men were injured, one critically, after a machete attack at a pub. [7] |
| 5 November 2022 | Portsmouth, Hampshire, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four men were stabbed outside a nightclub in Portsmouth. [8] |
| 25 April 2022 | Bermondsey, London, England | 4 | 0 | 4 | Four people were killed in a three-bedroomed terraced house. [9] |
| 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. [10] |
| 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. [11] |
| 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. [12] |
| 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. [13] |
| 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. [14] |
| 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. [15] |
| 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. [16] |
| 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. [17] |
| 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. [18] |
| 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. [19] |
| 4 March 2017 | Bristol, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four people were stabbed during a large fight outside a popular nightclub in Bristol. [20] |
| 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. [21] |
| 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. [22] |
| 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. [23] |
| 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. [24] |
| 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. [25] |
| 14 January 2003 | Crumpsall, Greater Manchester, England | 1 | 4 | 5 | Five police officers were stabbed, one fatally, in a flat during an immigration operation by terrorist Kamel Bourgass who had participated in the Wood Green ricin plot. [26] |
| Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 November 1999 | London, England | 0 | 11 | 11 | A schizophrenic man attacked a church with a samurai sword, slashing 11 before being subdued by 7 people. [27] |
| 28 December 1995 | Birmingham, England | 1 | 9 | 10 | A man with two knives stabbed ten people in a Netto supermarket, killing one. [28] [29] |
| 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. [30] |
| 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. [31] |