List of mass stabbings in the United Kingdom

This is an incomplete list of mass stabbings in the United Kingdom. As definitions of a mass stabbing can differ, this article uses the definition of at least three people being stabbed. Weapons which can be used in mass stabbings include knives, scissors, swords, hammers, screwdrivers, ice picks, bayonets, axes, machetes and glass bottles.

1990s
Date Location Dead Injured Total Description
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.[1]
8 December 1994 Birmingham, England 0 15 15
Main article: Rackhams' stabbing incident
A man injured 15 women, three seriously, with a butcher knife and a bread knife in a Rackhams department store.[2]

2000s
Date Location Dead Injured Total Description
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.[3]

2010s
Date Location Dead Injured Total Description
29 April 2011 Wootton, Northamptonshire, England 4 0 4
Main article: 2011 murder of the Ding family
Four people, all members of the same family, were found stabbed to death at their home on 1 May 2011.[4]
14 August 2011 St Helier, Jersey 6 1 (the perpetrator) 7
Main article: Rzeszowski family homicides
A man armed with two kitchen knives killed six people, including four members of his family, before repeatedly stabbing himself in the chest.[5]
5 December 2015 Leytonstone, London, England 0 3 3
Main article: Leytonstone tube station attack
A man armed with a bread knife injured three people at Leytonstone tube station, one of them seriously.[6]
3 August 2016 Bloomsbury, London, England 1 5 6
Main article: 2016 Russell Square stabbing
A man killed one person and injured five others, one seriously, in a stabbing attack in Russell Square.[7]
4 March 2017 Bristol, England 0 4 4 Four people were stabbed during a large fight outside a popular nightclub in Bristol.[8]
3 June 2017 Southwark, London, England 6 48 54
Main article: 2017 London Bridge attack
Three attackers armed with ceramic knives killed six people and injured 48, 21 critically, in the Borough Market area in central London.[9]
31 December 2018 Manchester, England 0 3 3
Main article: Manchester Victoria stabbing attack
Three people, including a British Transport Police officer, were seriously injured after a man attacked them at Manchester Victoria station.[10]
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.[11]
29 November 2019 City of London, London, England 2 3 5
Main article: 2019 London Bridge stabbing
A man armed with two kitchen knives stabbed multiple people inside Fishmongers' Hall and on the north side of London Bridge.[12]

2020s
Date Location Dead Injured Total Description
20 June 2020 Reading, Berkshire, England 3 3 6
Main article: 2020 Reading stabbings
A man armed with a kitchen knife attacked six people in Forbury Gardens, killing three and seriously injuring three others.[13]
26 June 2020 Glasgow, Scotland 0 6 6
Main article: Glasgow hotel stabbings
Six people, including a police officer, were seriously injured when a man stabbed them at the Park Inn Hotel in Glasgow's city centre.[14]
26 July 2020 Moss Side, Manchester, England 1 3 4
Main article: 2020 Manchester stabbing
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, machete and imitation handgun.[15]
25 April 2022 Bermondsey, London, England 4 0 4
Main article: 2022 Bermondsey stabbing
Four people were killed in a three-bedroomed terraced house.[16]
5 November 2022 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England 0 4 4 Four men were stabbed outside a nightclub in Portsmouth.[17]
13 February 2023 Walthamstow, London, England 0 4 4 Four men were injured, one critically, after a machete attack at a pub.[18]
30 April 2023 Bodmin, Cornwall, England 1 7 8
Main article: 2023 Bodmin mass stabbing
One man was killed and seven other people injured after an altercation outside a nightclub in Bodmin.[19]
13 June 2023 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England 3 0 3
Main article: 2023 Nottingham attacks
Three people were fatally stabbed at two locations in the centre of Nottingham as part of a wider attack.[20]

See also

References
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