Prostitution murders in United Kingdom
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„The Home Office notes in its 2011 report on prostitution that […] at least 137 prostitutes have been murdered in the UK since 1990“
„180 sex workers were murdered in the UK between 1990 and 2016. 110 of these 180 homicides were directly work-related; the sex worker was killed either by a client, in a sex working workplace or last seen alive in a known street sex work area. Based on this data from 1991 to 2000, working as a sex worker in the UK carried the absolute greatest risk of occupational homicide for women.“ 1)
2020 - 2029
2021
August 19 2021: Sharon Pickles, 45, Marylebone, London, England, was murdered by Lee Peacock, 49 2)
May 31 2021: Sandra Moore, 40, Stoke-on-Trent, England (Drogentod) 3)
May 9 2021: Agnes Akom, 20, hungarian, Cricklewood, London, England, murdered by Neculai Paizan, 63 4) 5)
2020
December 2020: Angela Williams, 42, London, was found dead after falling from the eight floor of an hotel 6)
August 3 2020: Therasia Gordon, 44, London, murdered by Brian Segundo, 26 7)
July 2020: Stella Frew, 38, Sutton, London, England, killed by James Martin, 27 8)
May 15 2020: Melissa Belshaw 9)
March 2020: Beverley Barzey, Islington (Murder Attempt) 10) 11)
2010 - 2019
2019
May 7 2019: Name unknown, 31, Vauxhall Street, Hillfields, Coventry, almost murdered by Bartosz Konopacki, 25 (murder attempt) 12)
January 18 2019: Daniel Moss, 43, Bexhill, committed suicide
2018
December 24 2018: Alena Grlakova, Rotherham, England, murdered by Gary Allen, the murderer of Samantha Class 13)
June 28 2018: Monika Stibla, 39, hungarian, Bradford Street, Bolton, drug overdose
May 25 2018: Christina Abbotts, age 29, Crawley, was murdered by john Zahid Naseem, age 48, on her birthday. Naseem stayed in the apartment for 12 hours following the killing, even sending explicit photos and videos to another prostituted woman.
April 7 2018: Shaquelle Vidal
March 18 2018: Naomi Hersi, 36, trans, Heathrow Palace Hotel in Cranford, Hounslow West, London, was stabbed to death by sexbuyer Jessie McDonald, 25
March 15 2018: Hope Barden
March 7 2018: Lady Beth Douglas (drug overdose)
February 23 2018: Charlotte Teeling
2017
June 22 2017: Anna Jura, 43, Rhondda Cynon Taff, died of prescription drugs and alcohol. She had been groomed into prostitution by her partner Gary Rich, 74
May 29 2017: Romina Kalachi, 32, italian, Fernhead Road, Kilburn, London, was stabbed to death multiple times. Noor Mohammed, age 28, was charged with murder.
2016
July 20 2016: Lenuta Ioana Haidemac
February 12 2016: Nkechi Jessica McGraa
January 13 2016: Georgina Symonds, 25, Beech Hill Farm, Usk, strangled to death by her „sugerdaddy“ Peter Morgan, 54.
2015
December 23 2015: Daria Pionko
December 21 2015: Natalie Gentle, 32, Plymouth, was found dead in her apartment. Natalie was addicted to heroine and prostituted. A neighbour said: „She tried to get help but they wouldn't help her. She had been attacked so many times.“
September 28 2015: Maxine Showers, 42, Hinton Street, Fairfield, Liverpool, found dead on the alleyway
July 30 2015: Denisa Silmen
June 23 2015: Anita Kapoor, 34, Saxon Road, Southall, allegedly murdered by sexbuyer Navin Mohan, 34
June 20 2015: Jennifer Williams, 25, Colehill Crescent, Bournemouth, was stabbed multiple times by sexbuyer Stefan Mayne, age 26, who was obsessed with her and wanted a relationship. Jennifer died one day later in hospital from her injuries.
March 28 2015: Vanessa Santillan, 33, mexican, trans, London, Fulham, murdered by Joaquin Gomez-Hernandez (23)
March 2015: Rivka Holden, 55, israelian, Colindale, murdered by sexbuyer Nicolae Patraucean (21). Rivkas face and body were scored with deep and long gashes, caused by a work knife. She was also strangled and subjected to repeated beatings with a blunt object, likely to be fists
February 1 2015: Christina Spilane
2014
December 5 2014: Luciana Maurer, 23, Falkirk, romanian (Medias, Transylvania), stabbed 44 times. Murdered by Steven Mathieson (38) who had also raped at least two other women
November 19 2014: Lidia Pascale
October 30 2014: Kadie Patterson, Prospect Street, Hull, repeatedly stabbed with a 6in kitchen knife by Christopher Croft (54) - murder attempt
July 26 2014: Jacqueline Jordan
June 21 2014: Samantha Jamison, London, store room in Bramfield Court, on the King’s Crescent Estate, Finsbury Park. He initially paid her £15 for oral sex behind a camper van after picking her up on the street nearby on June 21 last year. Kirk Wynter, 32, a crack cocaine dealer, returned later that evening and offered her £40 to ‘finish him off’. But he became irate when he was unable to get aroused, the Old Bailey heard, and abruptly ran to the corner of the dingy room to vomit. He then put his shirt back on and demanded she return his money. When she refused, Wynter launched the terrifying attack, leaving her with two punctured lungs, stab wounds, and severe bruising. The brutal assault involved beating her with an umbrella, setting her hair alight with a cigarette lighter and stabbing her with a pair of scissors found in her own bag. He grabbed a broken tile lying nearby and began hitting her with it, telling her: “You’re dying in here, bitch – don’t think you’re getting out of it”. - murder attempt
May 8 2014: Name unknown, 30, Rochdale, murder attempt by sexbuyer Matthew Graham, 29. Graham hit her head against a wall before pulling out a kitchen knife which he plunged through her neck „from one side to the other“. She was lucky to survive.
April 6 2014: Yvette Hallsworth
17 February 2014: Karolina Nowikiewisz, 25, Slough, Lowestoft Drive, polish, got her throat cut, murdered by Michael Wenham, following a failed penis enlargement operation prosecutor: „The killing was utterly premeditated, planned and clinically executed. Attacking her from behind, he sliced open her neck, cutting through her major arteries and her spinal chord.“
January 28 2014: María Duque-Tunjano
2013
November 27 2013: Bernadeta Nawracaj, 43, polish, The Tower, Richmond, London, stabbed to death by her flatmate Edyta Zawadska, 24. Bernadeta was killed out of jealousy because she was earning more money.
October 29 2013: Mariana Popa
2012
around June 2/3 2012: Kelly Davies, age 31, Farnworth, Bolton, was stabbed to death by her ex-partner Joseph DSavies, 35. 2 days after he'd been released from prison. The domestic homicide review in to her death refers to her being prostituted by him to pay for their drugs. „Adult D (the victim's sister) states that this behavior conformed to a pattern of violence perpetrated by Adult B (the killer) in which he would send Adult A (the victim) out to Shifnal Street to prostitute herself to pay for their drugs then beat her up when she came home for having gone through with it.“ p13 14)
April 16 2012: Carole Waugh
2011
August 14 2011: Jennie Banner, 32, Chatham, strangled with a belt by client
2010
May 21 2010, Suzanne Blamires, 36, dissapaered from Bradford without a trace
April 26 2010 Shelley Armitage
2000 - 2009
2009
November 5 2009: Destiny Lauren, 29, trans, Kentish Town, Leighton Crescent London, strangled by john Leon Fyle at her home
October 15 2009: Andrea Waddell, 29, Brighton, murdered by john Neil McMillan
June 22 2009: Susan Rushworth, 43, disappeared from Bradford without a trace
March 28 2009: Kirsty Grabham
2009: Anna, 35, chinese, near London Heathrow Airport, committed suicide. The movie „The Receptionist“ is based on her story working at an illegal massage parlour.
2008
December 22 2008: Cheryl Camm, 28, Toll Bar, Doncaster, stamped to death by Kieran Blackwell, 19.
December 19 2008: Laura Milne, Aberdeen, was murdered by Stuart Jack, 22, Debbie Buchan. 18 and Leigh McKinnon, 18
2007
September 18 2007: Bonnie Barrett
2006
December 10 2006: Paula Lucille Clennell, 24, Ipswich, her body was found on 12 December near Levington, she was found naked but not sexually assaulted and a post mortem reported that she had been killed by a compression of her throat. Prior to her death, Clennell commented on the then recent murders in an interview with Anglia News, stating that despite them making her „a bit wary about getting into cars“ she continued to work because „I need the money.“ Clennell had three children with Elton Norris; all were taken into care and adopted due to her drug addiction. she herself had spent some of her childhood in a referral unit, and it was shortly after being placed there that she started taking drugs, victim of serial killer Steve Wright („The Suffolk Strangler“)
December 8 2006: Annette Nicholls, 29, Major’s Corner, Ipswich, mother of a son, Nicholls' body was found on 12 December near Levington, naked but not sexually assaulted, and also posed in the cruciform position; a definite cause of death could not be established, but her breathing had been hampered. Nicholls, the oldest victim, had been a drug addict since the early 2000s, shortly after completing a beautician's course at Suffolk College. Soon afterwards, she had started working as a prostitute to fund her addiction, victim of serial killer Steve Wright („The Suffolk Strangler“)
December 3 2006: Anneli Sarah Alderton, 24, a mother of one who was also in the early stages of pregnancy, had been living in Colchester, Essex. Alderton disappeared on 3 December and was last seen on the 17.53 train from Harwich to Manningtree. Alderton got off the train at Manningtree at 18.15 before going on to Ipswich on another train, arriving at 18.43. Alderton's body was found on 10 December near Nacton, in woodland in front of Amberfield School. Alderton had been asphyxiated and was found naked, and was posed in the cruciform position. Her pregnancy was also revealed by the autopsy and her family were first informed of it by police officers.[32] Anneli moved to Cyprus with her mother, Maire Alderton, in 1992, after her parents separated, and they returned to Ipswich in 1997. Alderton attended Copleston High School and gained good grades in her exams. Alderton had been addicted to drugs since age 16, shortly after her father's death from lung cancer in 1998, murdered by Steve Wright (The „Suffolk Strangler“)
November 15 2006: Gemma Rose Adams, 25, born in Kesgrave, last seen outside a BMW dealership on West End Road in Ipswich, where she had been living, disappeared on 15 November at about 01.15 (UTC). She was reported missing the same day by her partner, Jon Simpson, with whom she had been for ten years. Her body was found on 2 December, in a river at Hintlesham; she was the first of the victims to be found. Adams was found naked, in a brook, but had not been sexually assaulted. Adams had been a popular child; she came from a middle-class family and had a love of animals. As a teenager she started taking hard drugs, becoming addicted to heroin. She had been working as a prostitute to cover the cost of her drug addiction, which had already led to her being dismissed from her job with an insurance firm, was murdered in Ipswich by Steve Wright (The „Suffolk Strangler“)
October 30 2006: Tania Nicol
July 1 2006: Samantha Tapper
July 1 2006: Anne Elizabeth Eels
June 23 2006: Lynne Barwick, 29, Hull, strangled to death by Edward Akester, 26.
2005
September 9 2005: Lyndsey Bourne
September 15 2005: Anne Marie Foy
June 16 2005: Rebecca Stephenson, 19, Town Moor, Doncaster, murdered by sexbuyer Ronald Beardmore, 31. Rebecca was addicted to drugs.
May 11 2005: Julie Freeman, 29, Commerce Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, murdered by Jason Griffiths
March 29 2005: Lomoki Mkwananzi
February 27 2005: Susan Third
February 2 2005: Sandra Wiles, 19, Dorset
April 4 2005: Emma Caldwell
2004
June 2004: Qu Mei Na, 28, Belfast, Skegoniell Avenue, murdered by her triad boyfrend Chang Hau Zhang
March 17 2004: Nasra Ismail
March 13 2004: Chantel Taylor
January 13 2004: Aleesha Nedic, 19, Snitterfield, Warwickshire, allegedly murdered by sexbuyer Paul Hiscock. She also could have died from a drug overdose.
2003
December 2003: Cara Martin-Brown, 25, Ipswich, kicked and stamped to death by Darren Brown, 22. Cara was addicted to drugs.
December 4 2003: Joanne Broome, 18, Renton, Vale of Leven, stabbed to death. Joanne was addicted to drugs.
October 15 2003: Nadine Hillier, 25, Bristol, was beaten, strangled and dumped in a lake in Eastville Park by sexbuyer Albert Webb, 37. Webb had a history of violence towards prostituted women. Also Nadine had already been violently attacked by another sexbuyer in 2000.
July 22 2003: Hanane Sarah Parry
July 22 2003: Pauline Stephen, 25, Everton, Liverpool, St Domingo Vale, was murdered by her client Marc Corner, 26
July 3 2003: Lisa Marie Spence, 20, Stratford, London, died from head injuries. Her body was found burned in a bin. Deepak Bouri, 23 and Adam Bowler, 19, were jailed for life.
2003: Becky Godden, 20, Gloucestershire, allegedly murdered by Christopher Halliwell, 39
2002
Christmas Day 2002: Brigitte MacClennan
Brigitte MacClennan, 34, College Place Estate, Camden Town, London, murdered by Anthony Hardy
December 2002: Elizabeth Valad
Elizabeth Valad, 29, College Place Estate, Camden Town, London, murdered by Anthony Hardy
November 2002: name unknown, 64, Hull, was almost killed by Steve Gallant (murder attempt)
October 2002: Julie Dorsett
Julie Dorsett, 33, from Hackney, went missing in 2002. In 2008, her upper body skeleton was found wrapped in a duvet and dumped in Walthamstow. 15)
June 2002: Rita Vilares
Rita Vilares, 33, King's Cross, London, stabbed to death by David Herbert, 45.
June 1 2002: Danielle Moorcroft
Danielle Moorcroft, 21, Manchester, Bolton, body was found at the rear of Bolton Community College, off Lower Bridgeman Street, at 0540 BST, suffered serious head injuries, she was fve months pregnant
May 31 2002: Donna Keogh
Donna Keogh, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire
May 30 2002: Rachel Wilson
Rachel Wilson, 19, near Newham, Hall Farm, human remains found June 27 2012
March 2002: Michelle Bettles
Michelle Bettles, 22, was found strangled in woods near Dereham, Norfolk, three days after disappearing from the red-light area of Norwich.
January 2002: Sally White
2001
December 13 2001: Pauline Fields
November 11 2001: Carly Bateman
November 5 2001: Michaela Hague
October 16 2001: Hayley Curtis
April 27 2001: Monica Mary Coghlan
April 26 2001: Rebecca Hall
February 12 2001: Nikola Higgins
2000
December 17 2000: Zoe Louise Parker
September 24 2000: Vicky Glass
September 10 2000: Kellie Mallinson
September 4 2000: Susan Kelly
June 11 2000: Kellie Pratt
February 2 2000: Vicky O`Hara
2000: Victoria Gerrard
1990 - 1999
1999
December 1 1999: September 16 1999: Mara Dorman
September 16 1999: Katie Kazmi
July 1999: Bexhe Alivica
February 7 1999: Marcella Ann Davis
1998
August 1998: Helen Sage
June 29 1998: Julie Jones
May 13 1998: Natalie Clubb
May 30 1998: Hayley Morgan
February 28 1998: Margo Lafferty
1997
November 23 1997: Tracey Wylde
November 1 1997: Sharon Lynch
October 25 1997: Samantha Class
June 12 1997: Christine Maguire
February 28 1997: James Errol (Robyn) Browne
1996
October 27: Karen Tomlinson
October 1996: Caroline Creevy
August 15 1996: Lucy Burchell
June 24 1996: Jackie Gallagher
1995
December 12 1995: Daniella White
October 7 1995: Christine Dinnie
September 8 1995: Sally Ann John
August 7 1995 Marjorie Roberts
August 4 1995: Laura Rodrigues-Olle
June 21 1995: Christine McGovern
June 8 1995: Maureen Stepan
June 2 1995: Leona McGovern
May 10 1995: Sabrina Brett
1994
October 15 1994: Mandy Wix
September 1 1994: Emma Knight
August 7 1994: Marina Coppell
August 5 1994. Julie Finley
May 14 1994: Dawn Shields
May 7 1994: Emma Merry
March 3 1994: Tracey Turner
1993
December 3 1993: Samo Paull
December 21 1993: Fiona Ivison
July 2 1993: Amanda Duncan
April 19 1993: Karen McGregor
May 28 1993: Carol Clark
1992
November 20 1992: Natalie Pearman
January 16 1992: Yvonne Fitt
1991
October 28 1991: Barbara Finn
October 15 1991: Diane McInally
August 31 1991: Sarah Crump
August 10 1991: Sharon Hoare
July 9 1991: Julie Dart
June 17 1991: Lynne Trenholme
May 14 1991: Glenda Potter
February 2 1991: Janine Downes
January 1 1991: Maria Requena
1990
September 3 1990: Gail Whitehouse
February 1990: Arminda Perry
1980 - 1989
October 18 1988: Linda Donaldson
February 14 1988: Lynette White
April 2 1987: Rita Parminter
May 2 1986: Julie Perigo
December 1985: Deborah Kershaw
April 21 1985: Linda Guest
April 7 1983: Sheila Anderson
July 2 1981: Karen Price
1981: Margaret Crowley
June 1980: Pat Berkeley
1970 - 1979
September 1978: Margaret Berridge
August 28 1979: Wendy Jenkins
March 20 1979: Carol Lannen
May 16 1978: Vera Millward
January 31 1978: Helen Rytka
January 21 1978: Yvonne Pearson
October 1 1977: Jean Jordan
April 23 1977: Patricia Atkinson
March 22 1977: Barbara Young
February 5 1977: Irene Richardson
January 20 1976: Emily Jackson
November 23 1975: Joan Harrison
October 30 1975: Wilma McCann
January 7 1975: Barbara Booth
Summer 1974: "The Duchess"
April 22 1972: Maxwell Confait
June 21 1971: Glenys Johnson
1960 - 1969
February 16 1965: Bridget O'Hara
November 25 1964: Margaret McGowan
July 11 1964: Mary Fleming
April 24 1964: Helen Barthelmy
April 8 1964: Sandra Irene Lockwood
February 2 1964: Hannah Tailford
November 8 1963: Gwynneth Rees
1950 - 1959
June 17 1959: Elizabeth Figg
September 24 1955: Alice Barton
September 6 1954: Ellen Carlin
March 6 1953: Hectorina MacLennan, 26, Yorkshire, England, murdered by serial killer John Christie
January 31 1953: Kathleen Madeleine Maloney
January 19 1953: Rita Nelson, 25, Yorkshire, England, murdered by serial killer John Christie
December 14 1952: Ethel Christie, 54, Yorkshire, England, murdered by serial killer John Christie
1940 - 1949
November 8 1949, 20, Beryl Evans, 20, Yorkshire, England, murdered by serial killer John Christie
March 12 1949: Kathleen Higgins
September 26 1948: Rachel Annie Fennick
September 5 1948: Dora Freedman
September 8 1947: Rita Green
August 8 1947: Isabel Wardle
November 10 1946: Margaret Cook
October 29 1946: Olive Balchin
February 5 1945: Eileen Cook
December 13 1944: Evelyn Hatton
October 7 1944: Muriel Eady, 31, murdered by serial killer John Christie
August 24 1943: Ruth Fuerst, 21, Yorkshire, England, murdered by serial killer John Christie
April 18 1943: Bella, Birmingham 16)
July 29 1942: Mary McLeod
May 19 1942: Jean Stafford
February 20 1942: Peggy Richards
February 11 1942: Doris Elizabeth Jouannet
February 11 1942: Margaret Florence Lowe
February 10 1942: Evelyn Oatley
1930 - 1939
May 13 1937: Rosina Fields
May 26 1936: Phyllis Spiers
May 9 1936: Constance May Hinds
November 4 1935: Josephine Martin
June 7 1932: Violent Halewood
February 22 1932: Dora Lloyd
January 2 1931: Margaret Schofield
1920 - 1929
March 12 1929: Katherine Peck
August 12 1927: Minnie Alice Bonati
January 27 1923: Mary Frances Pelham
1910 - 1919
1900 - 1909
December 26 1909: Gwen Ellen Jones
October 17 1908: Esther Prager
September 11 1907: Emily Elizabeth Dimmock
May 30 1901: Mary Annie Austin
1800 - 1899
February 13 1891: Frances Coles
July 17 1889: Alice McKenzie
February 10 1889: Louisa Smith
December 20 1888: Catherine Mylett
August 7 1888: Martha Tabram
November 9 1888: Mary Jane Kelly
September 30 1888: Catherine Eddows
September 30 1888: Elizabeth Stride
September 8 1888: Annie Chapman
August 31 1888: Mary Ann Nichols
April 4 1888: Emma Elizabeth Smith
December 14 1887: Emma Rolfe
March 23 1879: Eliza Patten
December 24 1872: Clara Buswell
December 4 1866: Eliza Shaw, Newbury 17)
April 28 1842: Eliza May, 25, Liverpool 18)
May 26 1838: Eliza Grimwood