This is an incomplete list of mass stabbings in the United Kingdom.
Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
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13 June 2023 | Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England | 3 | 0 | 3 | Three people were fatally stabbed at two locations in the centre of Nottingham as part of a wider attack. [1] |
30 April 2023 | Bodmin, Cornwall, England | 1 | 7 | 8 | [2] | One man was killed and seven other people injured after an altercation outside a nightclub in Bodmin.
13 February 2023 | Walthamstow, London, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four men were injured, one critically, after a machete attack at a pub. [3] |
5 November 2022 | Portsmouth, Hampshire, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four men were stabbed outside a nightclub in Portsmouth. [4] |
25 April 2022 | Bermondsey, London, England | 4 | 0 | 4 | [5] | Four people were killed in a three-bedroomed terraced house.
18 September 2021 | Killamarsh, Derbyshire, England | 4 | 0 | 4 | claw hammer at his home in Killamarsh. [6] | A man killed his pregnant partner, her two children and one of their friends by striking them over their heads with a
6 September 2020 | Birmingham, England | 1 | 7 | 8 | A man with schizophrenia killed a man and injured seven others during a series of seemingly knife attacks. [7] |
26 July 2020 | Moss Side, Manchester, England | 1 | 3 | 4 | machete and imitation handgun. [8] | 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,
26 June 2020 | Glasgow, Scotland | 0 | 6 | 6 | [9] | Six people, including a police officer, were seriously injured when a man stabbed them at the Park Inn Hotel in Glasgow's city centre.
20 June 2020 | Reading, Berkshire, England | 3 | 3 | 6 | kitchen knife attacked six people in Forbury Gardens, killing three and seriously injuring three others. [10] | A man armed with a
Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
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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. [11] |
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. [12] |
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. [13] |
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. [14] |
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. [15] |
4 March 2017 | Bristol, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four people were stabbed during a large fight outside a popular nightclub in Bristol. [16] |
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. [17] |
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. [18] |
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. [19] |
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. [20] |
Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
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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. [21] |
Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
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28 December 1994 | Birmingham, England | 1 | 9 | 10 | A man with two knives stabbed ten people in a Netto supermarket, killing one. [22] [23] |
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. [24] |
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. [25] |
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