254 known cases 1993 – 2023

94 investigations and official reports

In addition to the individual homicide inquiry reports available here, in September 2009 NHS North West published a study of all local mental health homicides between 2002 and July 2006 which had not been investigated properly.

They found 42 mental health homicides occurred in the area during that time.

By contrast only 22 cases have been found in press reports for the same period (involving 27 victims).

Of the 42 cases identified by the NHS North West report, 21 have still not been properly investigated.

In 2023 NHS England published a thematic review of five violent incidents by patients in Lancashire between 2019 – 2020

Date	Victim	Location	Event	Comment	download
09 July 2023	John Neil (82)	Timperley	Psychotic man (following Epilepsy) fatally batters his father with a hammer	Parents had tried repeatedly to get him help. Found insane at time – Sec 37/41
05 Feb 2023	Esmaeil Tofigh	Manchester	Delusional undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally batters his neighbour with a hammer	Diminished responsibility Sec 37/41 Hospital order with restrictions
06 Nov 2022	Alexis Karran	Manchester	Mentally disordered man fatally batters girlfriend with a claw hammer	Diminished responsibility –  Hospital Order Sec 37/ 41
24 Sept 2022	Thomas Murphy	Manchester	Delusional paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stabs housemate	Diminished responsibility –  Hospital Order Sec 37/ 41
10 May 2022	Lorraine Cullen	Liverpool	Paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stabbed his mother after misdiagnosis	Diminished responsibility – indefinite hospital order
22 Jan 2022	Andrew McDiarmid	Heswall, Wirral	Psychotic man with epilepsy repeatedly and fatally stabbed his stepfather	Diminished responsibility – Hospital Order with restrictions Sec 37/41
20 Nov 2021	Anthony Tipping Patricia Livesey	Preston	Paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stabbed parents hundreds of times	Long MH history – off meds, convicted of murder
08 Nov 2021	Tamby Dowling	Chadderton	Schizophrenic and delusional man fatally and repeatedly stabbed ex partner	MH History – had been begging authorities to section him
30 Aug 2021	Mohammed Mukhtar	Manchester	Mentally disordered woman fatally strangled her partner	Convicted of murder – Life with a minimum of 22.5 years
26 Jul 2021	William Ludlow	Neston	Mentally disordered man fatally crashes his car into another at high speed after drinking	Convicted of death by dangerous driving
29 Mar 2021	Simone Ambler	Blackpool	Psychotic man repeatedly and fatally stabbed partner	Diminished responsibility – history of previous violence
06 Mar 2021	Martin Dekker	Birkenhead	Mentally disordered man fatally bludgeons man with a hammer	History of killing animals – Guilty of murder – Life minimum of 33 years
29 Jan 2021	Rose Marie Tinton (82)	Southport	Paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally batters elderly mother with lump hammer	Previously well but deteriorated during COVID
29 Jan 2021	N’Taya Elliot-Cleverley	Liverpool	Mentally disordered man (undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenia) fatally strangles his girlfriend in front of baby daughter	Convicted of murder – sentenced to life with minimum of 19 years	Sentencing Remarks
22-23 Jun 2020	Leon Blaney	Workington	Psychotic man repeatedly and fatally stabbed and battered vulnerable brother with a knife and an axe	Diminished responsibility, sentenced to 21 years
03 June 2020	Mandy Houghton	Nelson	Delusional and demented pensioner fatally battered neighbour with claw hammer	Trial of facts – history of mental ill health
22 May 2020	Tom Walker	Nelson	Psychotic man repeatedly and fatally stabbed his father	Recently released from hospital after previously attacking his Dad
07 May 2020	Hyacinth Morris	Manchester	Severely depressed man fatally strangles his mother	Undiagnosed illness – diminished responsibility
22 Mar 2020	Emily Jones (7)	Bolton	Paranoid schizophrenic woman off meds & known to be a danger to children,fatally attacks young girl	Sec 45a Hybrid order	Inquiry Assurance Review Sentencing Remarks
06 Mar 2020	Raymond Conlan (75)	Longton	Schizophrenic woman fatally assaults pensioner	Diminished responsibility.
27 Feb 2020	Ryan Lowry	Manchester	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally and repeatedly attacks his cousin	Long MH history – off meds, inadequate risk assessment	Inquiry
01 Jan 2020	Mark Roberts	New Brighton	Mentally disordered man fatally stabs neighbour with machete	History of prev. violence – diminished responsibility
20 Dec 2019	Paul Cooke	Macclesfield	Mentally ill man fatally stabs man in the head and throws hot liquid over him	Diminished responsibility
11 Sept 2019	Zakari Bennett-Eko (11 mths)	Manchester	Psychotic man with paranoid schizophrenia fatally throws young son into river	Had been to A&E 6 times before incident with concerns about his MH	Sentencing remarks Serious Case Review
04 Sept 2019	Marlene McCabe	Blackpool	Man with paranoid schizophrenia fatally batters his grandmother	Family previously raised concerns about his deterioration which went unheeded	Coroner’s PFD
18 Aug 2019	Pamela Mellor	Handforth, Cheshire	Mentally ill man fatally batters and strangles friend	Unfit to plead – hospital order
18 Jun 2019	John MacMillan	Barrow in Furness	Mentally ill man fatally batters father days after release from psychiatric hospital	Released early due to bureaucratic error – Judge made critical comments	Inquiry
29 Apr 2019	Alex Davies	Parbold Hill, Lancs	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally and repeatedly stabs and batters young man	Convicted of murder – substantial planning & theft, planned more victims
28 Mar 2019	Hassan Mohamoud	Toxteth, Liverpool	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs acquaintance after hearing voices
27 Mar 2019	Barbara Heywood (80)	Bolton	Man with dementia fatally stabs wife	unfit to plead – trial of the facts
14 Feb 2019	Jessie McKinley (91)	Freckleton	Man with Dementia fatally batters and kicks fellow care home resident	Not prosecuted because of his mental state
22 Jan 2019	Mary Sowerby	Dearham, nr Maryport	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs mother in a ‘brutal and frenzied’ attack	Family had warned of his deterioration	Joint Inq & DHR
14 Jan 2019	Leanne Unsworth	Burnley	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally batters woman	Diminished responsibility	Inquiry
14 Jan 2019	Casey Lea Taylor (3) Darcey Stevens (1)	Bolton	Mentally disordered and paranoid woman fatally drugs her young children and herself	Previously referred to MH services 8 times but didn’t engage
03 Jan 2019	David Capseed	Liverpool	Mentally disordered man with schizophrenia fatally battered acquaintance	Convicted of murder	Inquiry
22 Aug 2018	Julie Owens	Liverpool	Mentally disordered man with schizophrenia fatally battered his mother	Admitted manslaughter – jailed for four and a half years	Inquiry
08 Jul 2018	Patricia Franks (84)	Stockport	Mentally disordered man fatally bludgeoned sick wife with scaffolding pole and smothered her	Diminished responsibility
14 Jun 2018	Graham Renshaw	Ellesmere Port	Psychotic man repeatedly and fatally stabbed his father
20 May 2018	Jonathan Palgrave	Preston	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally punches mentally-ill fellow resident		Inquiry
26 Apr 2018	Elizabeth Lacey	Garston, Liverpool	Paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stabs his mother and injures another	Had been unwell for weeks before hand	Trust internal investigation
Late Jan early Feb 2018	William Phelan	Manchester	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs vulnerable mentally ill friend	Convicted of murder	Learning Paper
17 Oct 2017	Tommy Grace	Prescot	Schizophrenic man repeatedly and fatally stabs stranger four days after discharge from prison	Previous history of mental illness and violence
26 Aug 2017	James Lesicka (23 mths)	Wythenshawe, Manchester	Mentally ill woman fatally stabs son after breakdown following abuse by boyfriend	Sudden onset of iilness – Diminished responsibility
02 Jul 2017	Jason Gregory	St Helens	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs friend in the heart with machete		Inquiry
30 May 2017	Areena Saeed Shadia Salem (7) Rami Saeed (4)	Toxteth Liverpool	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally suffocated his wife and drowned his children	Family had recently tried to get him MH help
22 Mar 2017	Thomas Jones	Manchester	Mentally disordered man fatally stabs vulnerable man and sets his body alight	Convicted of murder – had killed before but had been released	Inquiry Assurance Review
08 Dec 2016	Anthony Culley	Oldham	Mentally ill and manic woman fatally stabs husband	History of previous violence
28 Nov 2016	Natasha Wild	Rochdale	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs vulnerable girlfriend	History of MH problems & previous warnings	Inquiry DHR
30 Oct 2016	Phillip Owen	Manchester	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs man		Inquiry Assurance Review
26 Oct 2016	Victor Maroukian	Liverpool	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally batters co-worker with claw hammer
31 Aug 2016	Stephen O’Brien	Crewe	Mentally disordered man convicted of fatally stabbing man		Inquiry Report
25 Aug 2016	Michael Keen	Darwen	Mentally disordered man repeatedly anf fatally stabbed acquaintance	Inquiry due
22 Aug 2016	Jia Lu Huang	Manchester	Paranoid Schizophrenic fatally batters man and seriously assaults his wife	Convicted of Manslaughter by diminished reponsibility
21 Jul 2016	Nicola Howarth	Burnley	Mentally ill man fatally strangles partner	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs friend in the heart with machete
29 Feb 2016	Julie Archer	Manchester	Deluded paranoid schizophrenic pours petrol on his sister and fatally sets her alight.	Convicted of murder – Life with a minimum of 27 years
08 Feb 2016	William Lound	Salford	Paranoid schizophrenic with history of violence fatally stabs man	Had previously made threats to kill	Coroner PFD Report Inquiry
07 Feb 2016	Maylyn Couperthwaite	Bury	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs neighbour and seriously injures her vulnerable mother	Known to services – Previous offending history with knives
02 Oct 2015	Allan Wallace (86)	Huncoat, Lancs	Man with dementia fatally attacks and kicks fellow care home resident		Safeguarding Adults Review
29 Jul 2015	Florence Higham (16 days)	Stockport	Mentally ill man inflicts multiple fatal injuries on young baby		SCR Inquiry
09 Jun 2015	Ian Dollery	Lytham St Annes	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs stranger	Long history of mental illness and violence.   Poor investigation.	Inquiry Inq. Follow Up Appeal Court
15 Apr 2015	Bernadette Fox Sarah Fox	Bootle	Paranoid Schizophrenic strangles mother and fatally stabs sister	Off meds and abusing substances	Inquiry
25 Mar 2015	Adam Nightingale	Rochdale	Mentally ill man with history of violence fatally punches stranger	Investigation finds death was preventable	INQUIRY
31 Dec 2014	Sandra Brotherton	Stockport	Paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stabs mother	History of MH problems – Failed to take meds	INQUIRY
02 Dec 2014	Edith Gravener (79)	St Helens	Depressed man strangles wife then kills himself
19 Sept 2014	Paul Brown Dorothy Brown	Liverpool	Paranoid Schizophrenic fatally stabbed parents	Had sought psychiatric help the day before	Inquiry
29 Apr 2014	Carole Dyson	Adlington	Mentally disordered man fatally strangles wife		Inquiry
15 Apr 2014	Mussad Mohsin	Liverpool	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs father
14 Dec-2013	Glennis Brierley	Littleborough	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs mother	Long history of mental illness
13 Sept 2013	David Rimmer	St Helens	Schizophrenic teenager fatally batters pensioner with bottle	Substance abuse problems
09 June 2013	Carol Parr	Liverpool	Mentally ill woman fatally throttles her mother	Concerns raised with medics before incident
08 Jun 2013	Alice McMeekin Katie Jenkin	Millom, Cumbria	Mentally ill man kills mother and sister with an axe	Discharged two days before incident	Court of Appeal
09 Apr 2013	Lisa Clay Joseph Chadwick (6)	Bolton-le-Sands	Mentally ill man fatally stabs partner and young son		Serious Case Review High Court
28 Nov 2012	Paula Clinton	Liverpool	Mentally ill man fatally stabs wife
28 Nov 2012	Brian Melling	Liverpool	Mentally ill woman fatally stabs boyfriend	Long history of deprivation, PD
4 – 7 Sep 2012	Hazel Bailey (82)	Winsford	Demented man fatally batters wife with walking stick		DHR Exec Summ
31 Aug 2012	Khalid Kassian Hassan	Manchester	Psychotic woman beats man to death	Previous history of psychotic mental illness
21 Aug 2012	Jane Archbold (77)	Outgate, Cumbria	Mentally disordered man smothers and strangles his mother	History of drug and alcohol problems
19 May 2012	Hannah Windsor	Wirral	Long term MH patient repeatedly stabbed, cut and strangled & sexually assaulted girlfriend	Long MH history
05 Feb 2012	Josephine Gilliard	Blackpool	Mentally ill man repeatedly stabs and fatally batters wife with garden statue		Sentencing remarks
02 Jan 2012	Mark Chandler	Cheadle	Mentally ill woman fatally stabs partner 90 times and then kills herself	MH history
07 Oct 2011	Neil Ryan	Blackburn	Mentally ill teenager fatally stabs father
22 Sep 2011	Kalya Blake (4yrs)	Manchester	Paranoid schizophrenic mother suffocates daughter	Pre. MH history. Did not believe she was ill	SCR Exec Summary   SCR – Full
19 Sep 2011	Tracey Jones Shaun van Straaten (15)	Altrincham	Mentally disordered man sets fire to house killing woman, her son and himself		DHR Exec Summary Redacted
15 Sep 2011	Darren Brewster	Birkenhead	Psychotic teenager repeatedly and fatally stabs friend	History of autism
18 June 2011	Harry Morris	Warrington	Psychotic man ‘doing God’s will’ drowns stranger	Drug history – Previous warnings about mental state, but no action taken after assessment	Internal Investigation
17 Apr 2011	Thomas Thompson	Liverpool	Mental Health patient fatally batters man with variety of implements	History of violence. Previous inpatient month before incident	INQUIRY REPORT
15-21 Apr 2011	Ryan Livesey	Blackburn	Unmedicated paranoid schizophrenic punches and kicks friend to death	Extensive drug and MH history	Inquiry
11 Apr 2011	Bernadette Gallagher	Preston	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs mother and mutilates her body	MH History
07 Apr 2011	Daniel Skeffington	Manchester	Mentally disordered man fatally stabs son	Alcohol related – Diminished responsibility – sentenced IPP, min 2.5 years
24 Mar 2011	Valerie Donnelly	Preston	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs and slashes Mother 80 times	MH History – due for ’emergency appointment’	Inquiry
18 Feb 2011	Peggie Wilson	Kendal	Psychotic man punches, strangles and repeatedly and fatally stabs wife then kills himself	Discharged from hospital 2 days before	Serious Case Review
16 Feb 2011	Chloe Makin (4)	Bury	Mentally ill woman repeatedly and fatally stabs daughter then attempts suicide
10 Feb 2011	Noreen Patrick (89)	Burnley	Woman with dementia fatally punches fellow care home resident
30 Jan 2011	Peter Hopwood	Rochdale	Mentally ill man fatally beats stranger about the head	MH History	Inquiry
21 Jan 2011	Ferat Kesmez	Manchester	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally batters co-worker	Undiagnosed?
21 Nov 2010	Michael Naylor	Manchester	Psychotic man fatally stabs flatmate	Had prev. made threats to kill not passed on	Inquiry
01 Nov 2010	Muriel Richards (79)	Ellesmere Port	Psychotic pensioner with Dementia fatally and repeatedly batters wife in the head and face
28 Oct 2010	Simon Makin	Liverpool	Schizophrenic man fatally strangles friend with dog lead	Deliberately stopped taking meds
30 Jun-10	Elsie Hayes	Salford	Paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally batters mother with hammer, then stabs and mutilates her body	Long MH history
24 Jun 2010	Patricia Hammond	Alsager	Mentally ill man (dementia) repeatedly and fatally stabs wife		Inquiry
02 Jun 2010	David Bird Kevin Commons Darren Rewcastle Susan Hughes Kenneth Fishburn Isaac Dixon James Jackson Jennifer Jackson Gary Purdham Jamie Clark Michael Pike Jane Robinson	West Cumbria	Mentally ill delusional man goes on shooting spree, then kills himself
03 Apr 2010	Tia Rigg (12)	Manchester	Mental Health patient drugs, rapes, stabs and strangles 12 year old niece	MH history – drugged her with Olanzapine	SERIOUS CASE REVIEW
31 Mar 2010	Edna Gadsby	Liverpool	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs mother (had previously murdered father in Feb 2004 – released 2006)	MH staff unaware of previous warning signs	Inquiry – Full    Inq Exec Summ
10 Sep 2009	Jean Darbyshire	Wigan	Mentally ill man fatally strangles wife, then kills himself.	Long MH history. Inq found many care failures	Inquiry
29 Apr 2009	Chloe Fletcher (4)	Wallasey, Merseyside	Schizophrenic woman drowns daughter and attempts suicide.		Serious Case Review
24 Jan 2009	Claire Marshall	Millom, Cumbria	Psychotic mentally ill man fatally stabs ex-girlfriend 41 times in front of her two children		Court of Appeal
16 Jan 2009	Patricia Smales	Manchester	Mentally ill man bludgeons wife to death with a brick
12 Jan 2009	Jean Nevin (81)	St Helens	Mentally ill psychotic woman strangles elderly aunt.
15 Dec 2008	Patrick McGee	Manchester	Paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stabs pensioner, decapitates him and leaves head in wheelie bin.
12 Nov 2008	Delayno Mullings-Sewell (6m)	Manchester	Mentally ill woman fatally stabs children	MH history, recent contact with MH services – discharged	IPCC Report
12 Nov 2008	Romario Mullings-Sewell (2)	Manchester	Mentally ill woman fatally stabs children	MH history, recent contact with MH services – discharged	Reference to SCR
01 Nov 2008	John Crook	Liverpool	Mental health patient fatally attacks man in ‘brutal and savage’ assault	Long MH history with violence – Ind Inq. 2013 Conseque	Inquiry
21 Aug 2008	Judith Davidson	Penrith	Depressive fatally and repeatedly stabbed wife
28 Jul 2008	Sidney Waller	Manchester	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs stranger	internal inquiry found many failings	Inquiry
23 Jul 2008	Ethel Heyworth (93)	Carlisle	Man with Dementia pulls elderly woman from bed fatally breaking her neck		SCR
01 Jun 2008	Michael Kahan	Manchester	Recently released Schizophrenic fatally stabs stranger	CCTV. Pennine Care NHS Trust.	Inquiry
31 May 2008	Abdo Saeed Al Selwi	Huyton, Liverpool	Mentally ill man fatally shoots newsagent	Paranoid schizophrenia undetected until after incident
07 Apr 2008	Philip Ellison	Preston	Psychiatric patient fatally stabs care worker during visit		Inq Exec Summ   Inquiry Full
31 Mar 2008	Alan Scott Stella Scott	Allerton, Liverpool	Schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stabbed parents	Previous inpatient	Inquiry
19 Feb 2008	Geeta Rao Leela Rao	Wigan	Paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stab sister and mother		Inquiry
31 Oct 2007	Thomas Grundy	Islington, Liverpool	Paranoid Scizophrenic fatally shoots stepfather
13 Aug 2007	Rosalind McManus	Birch Hill H, Rochdale, Lancs	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally strangled co-patient in Psych hospital believing her to be a spy	MH patient in hospital	Inquiry
22 Apr 2007	Steven Calvert	Toxteth Liverpool	Psychotic fatally and repeatedly stabbed stepfather
16 Apr 2007	Simon Sutton	Birkenhead	MH patient fatally batters sister’s boyfriend with pool cue and kidnaps acquaintances	Critical Inquiry – D&A2012-Verita	Inquiry
29 Dec 2006	Sandra Wilson	Newton le Willows	Mental Health Patient fatally strangles acquaintance	Prev history of depression & suicide attempts	Inq. Exec. Summ Inquiry Full Update
14 Dec 2006	Jeannette Hullah	Cheetham, Manchester	Psychotic mentally ill man strangles and fatally stabs landlady in front of her child	Indefinite detention under MHA	Appeal
13 Nov 2006	Kevin Redford	Salford	Mentally ill woman fatally stabs stepfather	History of drug abuse and violence
28 Sep 2006	Leslie Brown	Warrington	Paranoid Schizophrenic fatally stabs neighbour after failing to take meds		Inquiry
09 Jun 2006	John Speakman	Wigan	MH patient fatally and repeatedly stabbed drinking partner	With Alcohol abuse.(Ind Inq2012 Consequence)	Inquiry
23 Apr 2006	Andrew Anderson	Barnston, Wirral	Psychotic mentally ill man fatally stabbed lodger 39 times, mainly to face and head	Previously sectioned twice. Before attack Mother had taken him twice to hospital the same day. Had reduced meds.
01 Mar 2006	Joe Geeling (11)	Bury, Gtr Manchester	Mentally disordered youth fatally batters and stabs schoolboy	Court found he was mentally disordered at time
Jan 2006	Kenneth Coombes	Stockport	Depressed woman fatally battered father and hid his body in garden for 12 years
25 Dec 2005	Donelle Schofield	Warrington	MH patient strangled partner then killed himself	Had warned of killing partner , no MH appt
31 Aug 2005	James Brennan (6)	Chorlton, Manchester	Paranoid schizophrenic babysitter fatally stabbed sleeping young boy 73 times	Diagnosed year earlier with drug induced psychosis	Serious Case Review summary
19 Mar 2005	Miriam Poulin	Macclesfield	Mental Health Patient sets fire to house killing woman	drug user – MH history – brief Ind Investigation six years later	Inquiry
18 Mar 2005	Paul Cooper	Rochdale	Mentally ill man fatally and repeatedly stabs disabled man in the head	IOPC investigation
16 Mar 2005	Alison Lumsden	Altrincham	Depressive repeatedly and fatally slashes face and neck of partner
20 Feb 2005	Edward Mills Margaret Mills	Liverpool	Paranoid Schizophrenic bludgeons parents to death with hammer & tried to burn bodies	Undiagnosed?
25 Jan 2005	Premawatnie Dolamullage	Thornton, Merseyside	Depressive fatally strangled houskeeper with necktie.	MH patient
02 Sep 2004	Terezia Sternberg Erova	Salford	Psychotic fatally stabs stranger	Sectioned (BBC Film on this case)
26 Aug 2004	Neville Young (77)	Bolton	Mentally ill woman fatally attacked her husband by pouring boiling water over him	Diminished responsibility – guardianship order
30 Jul 2004	Charles Shaw	Liverpool	fatally stabbed boyfriend in the throat	history of MH problems
25 Jul 2004	Sydney Blackwell Jaqueline Blackwell	Liverpool	PD fatally battered and stabbed parents
19 Jul 2004	Janet Courtney	St Annes, Lancs	Mentally ill man strangled disabled wife	detained indefinitely under MHA
29 Apr 2004	Mary Blain	Liverpool	Paranoid Schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stabs elderly neighbour
06 Apr 2004	David Brown	Blackpool	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally batters man after argument	Previous inpatient	Court of Appeal
01 Apr 2004	Ida Heginbotham (87)	Preesall	Mentally ill man cuts wife’s throat and attempts suicide
08 Mar 2004	Alan Reece	Formby, Lancs	Schizophrenic son stabs parents, mother survives	Had been diagnosed & asked for home visit, ignored.
19 Feb 2004	Arthur Gadsby	Liverpool	Paranoid Schizophrenic fatally batters father with hammer the day he was due to be admitted to Psych hospital
30 Oct 2003	Edward Lowe (83)	Walkden	‘Insane’ man fatally punches, batters and stamps on his father (90 times) whilst sleepwalking	Not guilty of murder by reason of insanity – released after 2.5 years
28 Aug 2003	Stephen Bradley	Wigan	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs neighbour
20 Jul 2003	Pauline Stephen Hanane Parry	Aintree Merseyside	Schizophrenic murders two women, dumps dismembered bodies in binbags in alley	Ind Inq 2006 – previously sectioned for stabbing, released as ‘no risk’, had warned of intention	Inquiry
09 Jul 2003	Judith Hunter	Manchester	Mentally ill man fatally stabs ex partner 113 times – whilst not taking meds	History of mental illness
04 Jul 2003	Richard Hodgson	Nether Kellet, Lancs	Mentally ill man fatally stabs neighbour and buries him in garden
27 Jun 2003	Chloe Fahey (5)	Manchester	Fatally stabbed daughter 52 times – attacked partner day before	Ind Inq 2010 – recently released MH patient – family and school concerns ignored	Inquiry Court of Appeal
26 Apr 2003	David Crawford	Crewe	fatal stabbing by MH patient	MH patient
12 Mar 2003	George Waitahaka	Bolton	Psychotically depressed man fatally stabs friend
27 Mar 2003	Patricia Jarvis John Jarvis (11) Stuart Jarvis (8)	Blackpool	Psychotic fatally stabs and removes heart from wife, fatally stabs two children
17 Jan 2003	Tamra Shaw	Manchester	Mentally ill man tortures and repeatedly and fatally batters young woman	Diminished responsibility
11 Dec 2002	John Williams	Oxton, Wirral	Mentally disordered man fatally batters and stabs father	Later suicide
17 Aug 2002	Joan Key (79)	Manchester	Depressed man fatally smothers vulnerable mother	Diminished responsibility – Sentenced to three years probation
23 Jul 2002	Celia Boyes	Brierfield, Lancs	Mentally ill man fatally stabs wife 74 times
26 May 2002	Daisy Hallsworth Fiona Hallsworth	Manchester	Mentally disordered man fatally batters wife and disabled daughter with an axe	Diminished responsibility – sentenced to 9 months
29 May 2002	Harry Upton (75)	Culcheth, Warrington	Former MH patient fatally stabs pensioner during burglary	Ind Inq 2005	Summary   Inquiry
12 Feb 2002	Hostel resident	Manchester	Mentally ill man kills fellow hostel resident	Long MH history – Internal review only	Internal Review
11 Feb 2002	Ahmed Adia	Bolton	Paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stabs acquaintance and attacks another	Long MH history, Inquiry announced but never published
07 Jan 2002	Anthony Rigby	Blackburn	Schizophrenic with history of violence fatally shot friend in the back of the head, three months after release from hosptal	Critical Ind Inq 2003	Inquiry 964kb
03 Nov 2001	Aaron Elleray (18mnths)	Bowness, Cumbria	Psychotic mentally ill woman sets garden shed alight with baby son inside killing him
5 Feb 2001	Julie Schaap	Standish	Depressed man fatally battered wife with a baseball bat and strangled her	Diminished responsibility – jailed for four years
7 Dec 2000	Colin Davies	Morecambe	Mentally ill woman fatally stabbed complete stranger in stomach	Diminished responsibility, depression and alcoholism
14 Oct 2000	Michael Dickinson (7)	Seascale, Cumbria	Mother poisons son (Munchausens)	Serious Case Review
23 Sep 2000	Matthew Murphy	Manchester	Mentally ill man with history of violence fatally and repeatedly stabs man	previously jailed for knife attack – released early
14 Mar 2000	Emma Jade Dyson (5 mnths)	Burnley	MH patient drowns baby daughter	Long history of MH problems
14 Feb 2000	Joanne Whitelegg	Bolton, Lancs	MH patient fatally and repeatedly stabs friend 27 times	Ind Inq 2003	Inquiry
04 Dec 1999	Eunice Watts	Runcorn	Schizophrenic fatally strangles wife and kills himself	Ind Inq 2001	Executive Summary
16 Sep 1999	Liaquat Ali	Bury	MH homicide	Ind Inq 2003. Previous threats of violence	Inquiry-Full Inquiry-Summary
27 Dec 1998	Carol Houghton	Birkenhead	Schizophrenic fatally battered girlfriend around face and head.	Ind Inq 2001, Ceased meds, previously sectioned after stabbing	Inquiry Board Summary
20 Dec 1998	new born baby daughter	Blackburn	Mentally ill woman gives birth and leaves baby outside in plastic bag in freezing conditions	Infanticide case – 3 month probation order
20 Dec 1998	Gary Sadler	Moreton	Ex-soldier with PTSD kicks man tp death	Diminished responsibility – sentenced to 6 years
30 Nov 1998	Garry Warburton	Lancs	Long term MH patient fatally batters best friend	Ind Inq 2002	Inquiry
29 Nov 1998	Heath Rowson	Manchester	Delusional paranoid schizophrenic batters flatmate to death	Critical Ind Inq – 2001	Inquiry
16 Oct 1998	Eileen Halewood	Liverpool	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs mother	Ind Inq 2000	Inquiry
13 Oct 1998	Lurlene Morris	Newton le Willows	Mentally ill man fatally batters his wife with a scaffolding pole and then kills his dog	Diminished responsibility
10 Oct 1998	Irene Lythgoe	Atherton	Paranoid schizophrenic kills mother with hammer & then attacks father.	Ind Inq 2000	Inquiry
22 Apr 1998	Nicholas Proctor-Beauchamp	St Helens	Mentally disordered man fatally stabbed friend four times	Long MH history – convicted manslaughter / sentenced five years
13 Dec 1997	Senga Kelly	Morecambe	Mentally disordered woman repeatedly and fatally battered woman with an axe	Diminished responsibility – sentenced to 6 years
26 Nov 1997	Margaret Lamb	Northwich	Depressed man fatally batters wife with a cricket bat	Diminished responsibility – sentenced to 5 years
12 Nov 1997	Mary Helen Tarry	Bolton	Severely mentally ill man fatally bludgeons his mother	Diminished responsibility – Judge warned about release
03 Nov 1997	Patrick Kelly	Ashworth Hospital	Mentally disordered patient fatally throttles another
28 Oct 1997	Lillian Agnes Wilson (81)	Maghull, Liverpool	Mentally disordered pensioner fatally smothered his wife	Diminished responsibility
28 Feb – 2 Mar 1997	Harold Bostock	Skelmersdale	Delusional man fatally shot brother
21 Feb 1997	Janet Smith	Liverpool	Mentally disordered and depressed teenager fatally stabbed his father’s partner	Diminished responsibility
05 Jan 1997	Tracey Corless	near Bacup	Mentally ill man fatally stabs wife in front of their children	Inquiry report
24 Dec 1996	Paul Masters	Wigan	homicide by patient w brain injury	Ind Inq 1999	Inquiry
18 Nov 1996	Kenneth Horrocks	Bolton	Paranoid Schizophrenic suffocates elderly neighbour	Ind Inq 1998 – care and comms failures	Inquiry
31 Oct 1996	Mohammed Guled	Moss Side	Psychotic man repeatedly and fatally stabbed a friend after habitually chewing Khat	Diminished responsibility – 5 years imprisonment
24 Apr 2006	new born baby boy	St Annes, Lancs	Mentally ill woman suffocated new born baby, wrapped in towels and newspapers and left on beach.	Convicted of infanticide	Appeal Court
27 Mar 1996	Hazel Horner	Lower Darwen	MH patient kills wife and self a day after discharge from psych unit.	Critical Ind Inq 1997	Inquiry
08 Mar 1996	Dennis Spencer	Darwen	MH patient killed neighbour	Critical Ind Inq 1999 – catalogue of failures
18 Feb 1996	Wendy Morrey	Wythenshawe	Mentally ill man repeatedly and fatally stabbed his girlfriend	Diminished responsibility – Life, 15 years imprisonment before parole
11 Feb 1996	Lee Kinch (14)	Huyton, Merseyside	Schizophrenic fatally stabs 14 year old	sectioned twice. Inq initially kept secret
28 Jan 1996	Lesley Pilling	Garston, Liverpool	Mentally ill man fatally batters and strangles his wife and attempts to kill his children	Diminished responsibility
20 Jan 1996	Elsie Donaldson	Heald Green	Psychotic man fatally stabs his mothers after believing Television was talking to him	Diminished responsibility – hospital order
Nov 1995	Dannon Harrison (4 mths)	Oldham	Post-natally depressed young woman fatally smothers young baby	Infanticide case – three years probation
21 May 1995	Thomas Disley	Wallesey	Mentally disordered man shoots ex girlfriend’s new boyfriend	Diminished responsibility
05 Feb 1995	Janet Lynn Fox	Macclesfield	Mentally disordered man fatally stabbed neighbour, a psychiatric patient	Diminished responsibility – jailed for three and a half years
21 Dec 1994	Stephen Cuddy	Liverpool	Paranoid schizophrenic stabs stranger	Previous assault with blade on WPC weeks earlier
28 Sep 1994	Harry Johnstone	Oldham	MH patient bludgeons man to death	Ind Inq 1997	Inquiry
05 Aug 1994	Anne Watkinson Miles Trigg (5)	Birkenhead	Mentally ill man strangled his mother and son
11 Jul 1994	Philip Bell	Bolton	Mentally disordered man fatally stabbed his father after ‘brainstorm’	Diminished responsibility – three years probation with MH treatment
06 Jun 1994	Joanne Skelton	Accrington	Mentally disordered man with a history of violence repeatedly and fatally stabbed ex-partner	Diminished responsibility
03 Apr 1994	Helen McEwen (80)	Manchester	Mentally disordered man fatally batters neighbour and tried to incinerate her body	Diminished responsibility – life sentence
25 Mar 1994	Lesley Kenny (10) Joseph Kenny (8)	Wythenshawe	Schizophrenic kills both children with a hammer
25 Feb 1994	Jason Comerford	Manchester	Mentally ill man fatally stabs stranger	Long MH history – only convicted in October 2020
Feb / Mar 1994	new born baby daughter	St Anne’s	Mentally disordered woman gave birth in secret and killed baby	infanticide case
26 Dec 1993	Henry Smith (91)	Wigan	Depressed man fatally battered and strangled his father	Diminished responsibility – three years probation with MH treatment
03 Sep 1993	Tracey Williamson	Macclesfield	Mentally disordered man fatally stabbed vulnerable wife	Diminished responsibility – jailed for two and a half years
20 Jun 1993	Sandra Greech	Littleborough, Rochdale	Mentally ill man fatally stabs wife	Diminished responsibility – two year suspended sentence
Jun 1993	James Bradley	Manchester	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs neighbour in supported housing complex	Diminished responsibility – sent to Ashworth
27 May 1993	Sean Kemp (18 months)	Lancaster	Mentally ill delusional woman fatally strangles young son	Had previously killed her sister’s child in 1981
23 May 1993	Amy Turton	Crosby, Liverpool	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabbed mother after hearing voices	Diminished responsibility
27 Apr 1993	baby daughter (2 mths)	St Helens. Lancs	Suffocated daughter whilst suffering post natal depression	infanticide case
18 Dec 1992	Halima Power	Toxteth	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally cut his mother’s throat and battered her with a hammer	Sent to Ashworth ‘indefinitely’