List of mass stabbings in the United Kingdom

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This is an incomplete list of mass stabbings in the United Kingdom.

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2020s

DateLocationDeadInjuredTotalDescription
29 July 2024 Southport, Merseyside, England31013 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. [1]
30 April 2024 Hainault, London, England145 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. [2]
30 April 2023 Bodmin, Cornwall, England178 One man was killed and seven other people injured after an altercation outside a nightclub in Bodmin. [3]
13 February 2023 Walthamstow, London, England044Four men were injured, one critically, after a machete attack at a pub. [4]
5 November 2022 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England044Four men were stabbed outside a nightclub in Portsmouth. [5]
25 April 2022 Bermondsey, London, England404 Four people were killed in a three-bedroomed terraced house. [6]
18 September 2021 Killamarsh, Derbyshire, England404 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. [7]
6 September 2020 Birmingham, England178A man with schizophrenia killed a man and injured seven others during a series of seemingly random knife attacks. [8]
26 July 2020 Moss Side, Manchester, England134 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. [9]
26 June 2020 Glasgow, Scotland066 Six people, including a police officer, were seriously injured when a man stabbed them at the Park Inn Hotel in Glasgow's city centre. [10]
20 June 2020 Reading, Berkshire, England336 A man armed with a kitchen knife attacked six people in Forbury Gardens, killing three and seriously injuring three others. [11]

2010s

DateLocationDeadInjuredTotalDescription
29 November 2019 City of London, London, England235

A man armed with two kitchen knives stabbed multiple people inside Fishmongers' Hall and on the north side of London Bridge. [12]

11 October 2019 Manchester, England055Five people were injured, one seriously, after a man started attacking people at the Arndale Centre in Manchester. [13]
31 December 2018 Manchester, England033

Three people, including a British Transport Police officer, were seriously injured after a man attacked them at Manchester Victoria station. [14]

27 November 2018 Edmonton, London, England044Four men were found with stab wounds following a fight apparently related to a shooting which happened the day before. [15]
3 June 2017 Southwark, London, England64854

Three attackers armed with ceramic knives killed six people and injured 48, 21 critically, in the Borough Market area in central London. [16]

4 March 2017 Bristol, England044Four people were stabbed during a large fight outside a popular nightclub in Bristol. [17]
3 August 2016 Bloomsbury, London, England156

A man killed one person and injured five others, one seriously, in a stabbing attack in Russell Square. [18]

5 December 2015 Leytonstone, London, England033

A man armed with a bread knife injured three people at Leytonstone tube station, one of them seriously. [19]

14 August 2011 St Helier, Jersey 61 (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. [20]

29 April 2011 Wootton, Northamptonshire, England404

Four people, all members of the same family, were found stabbed to death at their home on 1 May 2011. [21]

2000s

DateLocationDeadInjuredTotalDescription
23 December 2004 London, Greater London, England156A man killed one person and critically injured five others after "rampaging" through the Green Lanes area of London. [22]
14 January 2003 Crumpsall, Greater Manchester, England145 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. [23]

1990s

DateLocationDeadInjuredTotalDescription
28 December 1995 Birmingham, England1910A man with two knives stabbed ten people in a Netto supermarket, killing one. [24] [25]
8 December 1994 Birmingham, England01515

A man injured 15 women, three seriously, with a butcher knife and a bread knife in a Rackhams department store. [26]

28 March 1994 Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England123One 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. [27]

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