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⁾

August 19 2021: Sharon Pickles, 45, Marylebone, London, England, was murdered by Lee Peacock, 49 ²⁾

May 9 2021: Agnes Akom, 20, hungarian, Cricklewood, London, England, murdered by Neculai Paizan, 63 ³⁾ ⁴⁾

December 2020: Angela Williams, 42, London, was found dead after falling from the eight floor of an hotel ⁵⁾

July 2020: Stella Frew, 38, Sutton, London, England, killed by James Martin, 27 ⁶⁾

May 15 2020: Melissa Belshaw ⁷⁾

May 7 2019: Name unknown, 31, Vauxhall Street, Hillfields, Coventry, almost murdered by Bartosz Konopacki, 25 (murder attempt) ⁸⁾

January 18 2019: Daniel Moss, 43, Bexhill, committed suicide

December 24 2018: Alena Grlakova, Rotherham, England, murdered by Gary Allen, the murderer of Samantha Class ⁹⁾

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 ¹⁰⁾

April 16 2012: Carole Waugh

August 14 2011: Jennie Banner, 32, Chatham, strangled with a belt by client

May 21 2010, Suzanne Blamires, 36, dissapaered from Bradford without a trace

April 26 2010 Shelley Armitage

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.

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

September 18 2007: Bonnie Barrett

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.

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

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.

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

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. ¹¹⁾

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

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