List of United Kingdom criminals
This is a list of British people who have been convicted of serious crimes, or are notable for their criminal activities.
Murderers
Britons convicted of murder.
Serial killers
- Beverley Allitt – aka "Angel of Death"; paediatric nurse who killed four babies in her care and injured at least nine others; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1991.
- Robert Black – Scottish schoolgirl killer; convicted of three murders, suspected of many more.
- Ian Brady and Myra Hindley – aka "Moors Murderers"; murdered five children, aged between 10 and 17 and buried them in Saddleworth Moor.
- Leslie Bailey – killed at least three young boys in and around London in the 1980s.
- William Burke and William Hare – notorious body snatchers in Edinburgh in the 19th century.
- George Chapman – poisoned three women; suspected by some authors of being Jack the Ripper.
- John Childs – murdered six people between 1974 and 1978; sentenced to life imprisonment.
- John Reginald Halliday Christie – killed at least six women (including his wife) between 1943 and 1953 and hid the bodies in his house. He has been implicated in the murders of one other woman and her infant child, of which Christie's fellow tenant, Timothy Evans, was convicted in 1950.
- Mary Ann Cotton – British Victorian killer; said to have poisoned more than 20 victims.
- Thomas Neill Cream – aka "Lambeth Poisoner"; began his killing spree in the United States then moved to London; hanged in 1892.
- Amelia Dyer – murdered infants in her care; executed in 1896.
- Kenneth Erskine – aka "Stockwell Strangler"; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988 for murdering seven pensioners.
- Steven Grieveson – aka "The Sunderland Strangler"; murdered three teenage boys in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear in 1993 and 1994.
- John George Haigh – aka the "Acid Bath Murderer" and the "Vampire of London"; active in England during the 1940s; convicted of six murders, but claimed to have killed 9; executed in 1949.
- Anthony Hardy – aka the "Camden Ripper"; convicted of three murders; suspected of at least four.
- Trevor Hardy – aka "The Beast in the Night"; killed three teenage girls in Manchester from 1974 to 1976.
- Colin Ireland – aka "Gay Slayer"; killed five gay men in the early 1990s.
- Michael Lupo – aka "Wolf Man"; convicted of four murders and two attempted murders.
- Bruce George Peter Lee – serial arsonist and killer.
- Patrick Mackay – charged with the murders of five individuals, convicted of three; confessed to killing 11 people.
- Peter Manuel – Scottish murderer of seven, suspected of killing 15; executed in 1958.
- Robert Maudsley – killer of four; killed three in prison.
- Peter Moore – businessman who killed four men at random in Wales.
- Donald Neilson – aka "Black Panther; killed four people, including heiress Lesley Whittle.
- Dennis Nilsen – killer of 15 (possibly 16) men between 1978 and 1983.
- Colin Norris – nurse convicted of killing four patients in Leeds hospitals.
- William Palmer – aka "Palmer the Poisoner"; doctor suspected of numerous murders, convicted of one; hanged on June 14, 1856.
- Mark Rowntree – 19 year old who killed four people at random.
- Amelia Sach and Annie Walters – murdered an unknown number of babies put up for adoption.
- Harold Shipman – doctor convicted of 15 murders; a later inquiry stated he had killed at least 215 and possibly up to 457 people over a 25-year period.
- George Joseph Smith – aka "The Brides in the Bath"; killer of three women.
- John Straffen – child killer and Britain's longest serving prisoner until his death on November 19, 2007.
- Fred West and Rosemary West – aka "House of Horrors"; she was convicted of 10 murders; both are believed to have tortured and murdered at least 12 young women between 1967 and 1987, many at the couple's home in Gloucester; he committed suicide in 1995 while awaiting trial.
- Steve Wright – aka "The Suffolk Strangler" or "The Ipswich Ripper"; killed 5 women in six weeks around Ipswich in late 2006.
- Graham Young – aka "The Teacup Poisoner"; killed three people from 1962 to 1971.
Mobsters
Rapists
- Antoni Imiela M25 rapist [1]
- Peter Sutcliffe – aka the "Yorkshire Ripper"; convicted in 1981 of murdering 13 women and attacking seven more from 1975 to 1980.
- Delroy Grant British 'Night Stalker' rapist of many elderly victims who operated between 1992 and 2009
- John Worboys a convicted British serial rapist, known as the Black Cab Rapist. He was convicted in March 2009 for attacks on 12 women.
Terrorists
Britons convicted of terrorism
Other
See also