149 known cases 1994 – 2020
78 Inquiries, Reviews and official reports

NHS East of England ordered a review of all local mental health homicides between April 2002 and July 2006 which had not been properly investigated and found some 14 cases.

None of these 14 cases are publicly known.

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SOURCES

NHS East of England – Verita Report

Date	Victim	Location	Event	Comment	download
02 July 2020	Harry Hennessy	Wickford	Paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally kicks fellow care home resident	Unfit to plead – found to have done the act
22 June 2020	Daniel Littlewood	Norwich	Mentally disordered man fatally batters friend with concrete block	Admitted murder charge
03 May 2020	Silke Hartshorne-Jones	Barham, Nr Ipswich	Psychotic and depressed man fatally shoots wife with shotgun whilst children in the house	Many previous calls to health professionals
01 Mar 2020	Valerie Jozunas	Wimbish, Saffron Walden	Mentally ill man repeatedly and fatally stabbed mother
09 Feb 2020	May Miller (95)	Halesworth	Man with dementia fatally attacks fellow care home resident with walking stick	Had previously refused to be assessed	Coroner’s PFD Council response
02 Dec 2019	Harley Watson (12)	Loughton	Paranoid schizophrenic intentionally and fatally drives at school children	Had previously told MH services and Police of intention to attack children.	Sentencing remarks
27 Nov 2019	Katy Sprague	Cambridge	Mentally disordered man fatally strangles fellow resident in supported accommodation	Convicted of murder – had asked to be sectioned day before without success.	Sentencing remarks
12 Jul 2019	Doreen Virgo (89)	New Costessy, Norwich	Demented man stangles wife after attempting to poison her.	Unfit to plead – trial of facts
26 Apr 2019	Abhay Rao (4)	Newmarket	Depressed woman fatally cuts throat of four-year old son then takes her own life	Serious Case Review commissioned
23 Apr 2019	Katheeskaran Thavarasa	Hitchin	Psychotic man repeatedly and fatally stabbed friend thinking he was Jesus killing the ‘fake Messiah’	Told MH staff 4 days before he was Jesus & being persecuted. Diminished Responsibility case.
23 Sept 2018	Hilda (Frances) Hubbard (76)	Brooke, Norfolk	Man with dementia fatally stabs wife	Unfit to plead – but found to have done the act	Domestic Homicide Review
06 Aug 2018	Katherine Kemp	Ipswich	Psychotic man repeatedly and fatally stabs wife hours before killing himself	Off meds. Coroner criticised crisis team
23 July 2018	George Acres (7)	Rochford	Schizophrenic woman fatally strangles and drowns young son	Found to be insane at the time	Inquiry Serious Case Review
19 Dec 2017	Doreen Livermore (88)	King’s Lynn	Demented patient fatally attacks another in a care home	Patient had assaulted her 3 times previously – Safeguarding Adults Review due	Safeguarding Adults Review – Full SAR – Exec
15 Dec 2017	Suzanne Brown	Braintree	Paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stabbed partner after meds stopped	Family warned repeatedly about deterioration	Inquiry DHR Full DHR Exec
23 Sept 2017	Daniel Dayalan	J24 M25 Broxbourne	Insane woman speeding on mororway crashes into car killing other driver	Sentenced to two years supervision order
05 Aug 2017	Peter Wrighton	East Harling, Norfolk	Psychotic man off meds repeatedly and fatally stabs stranger	Previously told MH workers he wanted to kill
29 Jul 2017	Farnaz Ali	Norwich	Mentally disordered man fatally batters neighbour 59 times with a hammer
25 Jul 2017	Natividad Nituan	Radlett	Mentally ill man repeatedly and fatally stabbed partner
20 Jul 2017	Geoffrey Caton	Bury St Edmunds	Paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stabbed acquaintance
04 Jan 2017	Nicholas Daher (85)	Letchworth	Mentally ill man fatally stabbed his father-in-law	Convicted of Manslaughter by diminished reponsibility
22 Nov 2016	Asia Tufall	Cambridge	Mentally ill man fatally smothers wife		DHR
12 Jul 2016	Allison Muncaster	Magdalen, Norfolk	Depressed man shot his wife and then himself
07 May 2016	Khabi Abrey Unborn Baby	Westcliff	Mentally ill man sets fire in block of flats killing neighbour and her unborn baby
13 Apr 2016	Jean Ryan	Felixstowe	Mentally disordered man fatally and repeatedly stabbed wife
24 Mar 2016	Amina Begum	Maldon	Mentally ill man fatally stabs mother 37 times
28 Dec 2015	Rita King (81)	Walton on the Naze	Deluded mentally ill man fatally shoots wife
24 Dec 2015	Katie Locke	Waltham Cross	Recent Psychiatric patient strangles woman and abuses her body	Had made prev. threats to kill, recently released from psych.hospital	Inquiry
17 Dec 2015	Kathleen Griffin	Clacton	Mentally ill man repeatedly and fatally stabs and punches woman	Remained with the body to watch television	DHR-Exec DHR-Full
09 Dec 2015	Terry Ojuederie	Peterborough	Psychotic man beats cell mate to death	Substance abuse history	PPO Inv Inquiry
20 Sept 2015	Ashwin Desai	Luton	Psychotic man fatally batters stranger with fire extinguisher
14 Sept 2015	Nicola Cross	Hemel Hempstead	Paranoid Schizophrenic breaks into strangers house & fatally stabs mother in front of her children
14 Sept 2015	Zakariyyah Islam	Whitechapel, London	Mentally ill man fatally stabs healer	(out of London patient)
29 Aug 2015	Samantha Ho	St Neots	Paranoid schizophrenic beheads wife and stabs family dog	Long MH history	DHR Inquiry
22 Jul 2015	Gillian Philipps David Oakes	Stansted Mountfitchet	Mentally ill man fatally attacks mother and her partner, weeks after release from prison	Long MH history – subsequently murdered in prison	Inquiry DHR Full DHR Exec
22 Feb 2015	Pauline King (82)	Norwich	Mentally ill man beats pensioner to death with two hammers	Recently released from psych unit
09 Dec 2014	Bhagwant Singh	J27 M25	Insane man drives into HGV causing multiple car fatal collision
19 Nov 2014	Dennis Nicholls	Lowestoft	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally strangles elderly father	Not taking meds
13 Nov 2014	Deborah Ruse	Bury St Edmunds	Mentally ill man fatally batters ex wife with an axe before killing himself	MH Trust in regular contact before death
24 May 2014	Wendy Ambrose	Boxted, Essex	Man with Dementia fatally shoots wife and then himself
29 Mar & 17 June 2014	James Attfield Nahid Almanea	Colchester	Mentally disordered man repeatedly & fatally stabs strangers	Detained in Secure psychiatric hospital
12 Mar 2014	Alexa-Marie Quinn	Hatfield	Mentally disordered man fatally batters his daughter	Psychiatrist was frightened of him during assessment	SERIOUS CASE REVIEW
22 Oct 2013	Leonard Flower	Luton	Mentally ill man repeatedly and fatally stabs neighbour	Had been recently seen by Crisis team	SERIOUS CASE REVIEW SUMMARY
26 Sep 2013	Tolu Kalejaiye	Wickford	Paranoid Schizophrenic fatally stabs mother		Domestic Homicide Review
21 Jun 2013	Rebecca Thompson (11)	Bushey	Mentally ill man fatally strangles daughter and attempts suicide
13 Jun 2013	Russell Capon	Ipswich	Schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stabs childhood friend	History of mental illness	Inquiry
04 May 2013	Paul Simons	Chelmsford	Mentally ill man fatally stabbed, battered and cut man		Court of Appeal
15 Apr 2013	Levina Anderson (3) Addy Anderson (2) Kyden Anderson (11 mnths)	Lowestoft	Mentally disordered mother kills her three children and then herself		Serious Case Review
30 Mar-03 Apr 2013	John Chapman Lukasz Slaboszewski Kevin Lee	Peterborough	Mentally disordered woman fatally stabs landlord & housemates	Had been admitted to psych ward two weeks before
02 Mar 2013	Thomas Baird	Hemel Hempstead	Recent MH patient batters and stabs ex-girlfiend’s father	Previous history of violent assaults	INQUIRY REPORT
11 Jan 2013	Myrna Kirby	Cheshunt	Depressed man smothers wife and kills himself		INQUIRY REPORT
02 Nov 2012	Carol Cooper	Clacton	Mentally disordered man fatally smothers mother	Long MH history – previously sectioned	Domestic Homicide Review
28 Aug 2012	Maureen Tyler	Cray’s Hill, Essex	Mentally ill man fatally shoots mother then kills himself	MH history – family complaints about MH treatment	DHR
15 Jul 2012	Claire Parrish	Harlow	Mentally disordered man fatally batters and stabs partner	MH history, stopped meds	DHR
10 Jul 2012	PC Ian Dibell	Clacton	Mentally ill man fatally shoots policeman then kills himself	MH history
27 Jun 2012	Eystna Blunnie	Harlow	Recent MH patient fatally batters ex fiancee and unborn child	Discharged from MH care less than month before	Domestic Homicide Review
26 Aug 2011	Tracy Anstice	Flitwick	Mentally ill man fatally stabs ex-wife		INQUIRY REPORT
24 Jul 2011	Jeanette Goodwin	Southend	Mentally ill man repeatedly and fatally stabs former girlfriend	Family had tried to get get him sectioned
25 Jun 2011	Fred Hodson	Luton	Mentally ill man fatally and repeatedly batters strangers head with hammer	Assessed as ‘no danger’ on day of incident	INQUIRY REPORT
25 Feb 2011	Albert Wright (80)	Hainault	Mentally ill man fatally stabs elderly relative		INQUIRY REPORT
20 Feb 2011	Ruth Jacobs	Needham Market	Merntally ill man drowns disabled wife	Sentenced Sec 37 MHA – no restriction	INQUIRY REPORT
25 Jun 2010	Ramatunnessa Choudhury (70)	Luton	Paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly beat mother to death in front of children	Long MH history with serious violence. Not taking meds	Inquiry
30 Apr 2010	Sandra Crawford	St Albans	Psychotic man fatally and repeatedly stabs neighbour	Family took him to hospital day before but released.	Inquiry
15 Mar 2010	Carol Wetherley	Needham	Paranoid Schizophrenic slits mother’s throat claiming Jesus made him do it.	MH History	Inquiry
01 Jan 2010	Rosina Waller (88)	Southend	Mentally ill man fatally batters grandmother
23 Dec 2009	June Jumaily	Letchworth	Mental health patient fatally stabs estranged wife in front of daughter	History of psychosis	Inquiry
01 Oct 2009	Colin Fish (89)	Weston Hills nr Spalding	Depressed man fatally strangled elderly friend	Long history of mental illness – diminished responsibility
17 Jun 2009	Faith Lovemore (6 wks)	Cambridge	Mentally ill woman kills baby	MH History	SCR   Inquiry
08 May 2009	Christine McDonald	Newmarket	Mentally ill man batters and repeatedly stabs wife then commits suicide	Had had CMHT assessment 9 days before
06 May 2009	Mary Griffiths	Bury St	Deluded recent mental health patient kills woman with bolt gun		INQUIRY High Court
26 Apr 2009	Colin Ricketts	Laindon, Essex	Mentally ill man with paranoid delusions fatally stabs mother’s boyfriend		Inquiry
15 Nov 2008	Boris Reavey	Bedford	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs stranger three days after release from psych. hospital	long MH history had been inpatient 15 times	Inquiry
20 Sep 2008	Ryan Walsh	Cheshunt	Mental health patient fatally stabs boyfriend	MH history w violence – inquiry found many failings in care. Ind inq. 2013 Iodem	Inquiry
11 Sep 2008	Brian Haynes	Peterborough	Mentally disordered man involved in fatal attack on inmate	Inq found poor care and missed opportunities	Inquiry
26 Aug 2007	John Redhead	Potters Bar	Mental health patient convicted of murdering ex boyfriend	Drug user. Ind inq. 2013 Niche	Inquiry
24 Aug 2007	Kathleen Bainbridge	Dunstable, Beds	Mentally ill man fatally stabs care assistant and attempts to kill another	Unfit to plead. Herts patient	INQUIRY REPORT
15-17 Jul 2007	Marvaleen Lee	Bedford	Schizophrenic fatally stabs mother in neck and dismembers body	pleaded guilty by diminished responsibility
14 Jun 2007	Neil Orton	Hemel Hempstead	Long term MH patient with history of violence fatally stabbed acquaintance	Inq found failings in care	Inquiry
11 Jun 2007	PC Johnathan Henry	Luton	Schizophrenic fatally stabs PC in the neck	alleged contact with MH Services 4 days before incident	Inquiry
01 Mar 2007	Joseph Talby (4) Paul Talby (2)	Peterborough	Mentally ill woman smothers children then hangs herself	MH history	SCR
30 Dec 2006	Steven Janczuk	Arlesey, Beds	Mentally ill woman fatally stabs husband	MH History	Inquiry
01 Nov 2006	Marcus Witham	Colchester	MH patient (w PD and sub-stance abuse problems) fatally stabs partner	Case ‘E’ in Inq. Report	Inquiry
26 Sep 2006	Newborn baby boy	Stanford-le-Hope	Mentally disordered teenager fatally battered new born baby whilst ‘significantly impaired’	Infanticide case
24 May 2006	Graham Rayner	Tavenham, Norfolk	Paranoid schizophrenic decapitates victim with axe and hides body in boot of car	Long MH history. prev. violence. Stopped meds. Inq said Preventable.	Inquiry
23 Mar 2006	Frank Empson	Harlow	MH patient fatally stabs acquaintance	Drug User	Inquiry
22 Mar 2006	Adel Makar	Westcliff on Sea	MH patient fatally stabs father then hangs himself		Inquiry
07 Mar 2006	Paul Butterworth	Hoddesdon, Herts	Psychotic man strips naked and bludgeons friend’s father to death	Substance abuse
21 Feb 2006	Mandlemkosi Nelya (Mandla Leya)	Cambridge	Conditionally released psychiatric patient batters friend and leaves him to freeze to death	Case F in Inq report. Verita 2010. History of psychotic illness & prev. violence.	Inquiry
15 Jan 2006	Terence Whiteley	Shenley	Man with Alzheimers drove car into cyclist
15 Dec 2005	Teresa Botwright	Lowestoft	Paranoid Schizophrenic fatally attempts to decapitate mother with samurai sword	MH History
02 Dec 2005	Michael Bird	Braintree	MH patient fatally strangles acquaintance	Case ‘K’ in Inquiry report	Inquiry
02 Aug 2005	Lisa Sullivan	Walton on the Naze	Mental Health patient strangles partner	Ind Inq found failings in care	Inquiry
23 Jul 2005	Peter Grimshaw	Colchester	MH patient fatally stabs friend	Case J in Inq report – many problems in Care. Verita 2010	Inquiry
12 Jun 2005	Marguerite Dunkley	Lyng, Norwich	Paranoid Schizophrenic kills elderly parents by repeatedly stamping on them	Long MH history with previous violence yet allowed out for unsupervised visits.
12 Jun 2005	Arthur Dunkley	Lyng, Norwich	Paranoid Schizophrenic kills elderly parents by repeatedly stamping on them	Long MH history with previous violence yet allowed out for unsupervised visits.
05 Feb 2005	Mary (Maisie) Dempsey (71)	Harpenden	MH patient fatally stabs elderly neighbour 40 times	Substance abuse problems – Case B in Inquiry report. 2010, Verita.	Inquiry
13 Jan 2005	Ryszard Krasewski	Bedford	Psychotic repeatedly attacked three men with meat cleaver, two killed
13 Jan 2005	Adam Krol	Bedford	Psychotic repeatedly attacked three men with meat cleaver, two killed
31 Dec 2004	Deraye Lewis (3)	Bletchley	MH patient fatally punches toddler	Critical Inq. Verita 2010. (Case G) – PD and substance abuse	Inquiry
26 Dec 2004	Doreen Griggs	Wisbech, Cambs	Paranoid schizophrenic smothers and stabs grandmother fatally	Indep Inq. Hanson 2009	Inquiry
25 Dec 2004	Christopher Mason	Watford	MH patient attacks stranger in street, who falls and later dies	5 yr MH history – Case A in Inquiry report. Verita 2010	Inquiry
24 Oct 2004	Amanda Lewis	Bury St Edmunds	Depressive stabbed partner	light sentence
07 Aug 2004	John West	Sheringham Norfolk	Paranoid schizophrenic killed his father in law	Ind Inq 2008. Previous violence, released days earlier, warnings. Poor risk assessment. Poor team work.	Inquiry
26 Oct 2003	Nicholas Doolan	Cheshunt	MH patient fatally stabs partner	Suffered Domestic Violence – poor MH care in Herts & Kent	Inquiry
23 Jan 2003	Sean Hand	Basildon	MH Homicide by stabbing	Ind Inq 2008. Released despite homicidal thoughts, poor records	Inquiry
25 Dec 2002	Jayne Poppy	Leigh on Sea	Paranoid Schizophrenic batters girlfriend to death	Ind Inq 2008. Released against advice, missed appts, came off meds, no risk assessment.	Inquiry
28 Jul 2002	Derek Salmon	Colchester	MH patient fatally and repeatedly stabbed her husband	Yes – Ind Inq	Inquiry
25 Jun 2002	Hazel Prager	Hainault, Essex	Paranoid schizophrenic rapes and fatally stabs a stranger
29 Aug 2001	Jason Hill (6)	Shortstown, Bedordshire	Paranoid Schizophrenic fatally strangles young son	Social services deemed son at no risk two weeks earlier. SS inq
19 Aug 2001	John Boultwood	Tilbury, Essex	PTSD depressive (after Ladbroke Grove) fatally and repeatedly stabs stranger	Indefinite detention
07 May 2001	Karen Richards	Watford	Mentally ill man fatally and repeatedly stabs wife	Recently released from Psychiatric unit
06 May 2001	Dorothy Rush	Norwich	Psychotic man repeatedly and fatally batters and stabs disabled mother	Originally unfit to plead, sentenced 2012
08 Nov 2000-20 Jan 2001	John Timms	St Albans Hospital	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally batters and stamps on fellow psychiatric patient	Refused meds & abused substances
8 Jan 2000	Dorothy Parsons (87)	Thorpe le Soken	Depressed man fatally shot wife
02 Sep 1999	Rosemary Neale	Colchester	MH homicide of mother	Ind Inq 2002	Inquiry
27 Jul 1999	Violet Dunderdale	Chelmsford	Paranoid Schizophrenic kills grandmother (DNA evidence 8 yrs later)	MH patient
09 Sep 1998	Martin Cass	Ford End, Essex	MH patient fatally shot ex’s new partner, then shot himself	Ind Inq 2001	Inquiry
05 Aug 1998	Joanne Alawode (3)	Cambs	MH homicide of daughter		Ind Inq 2000
11 Mar 1998	Gary Edwards	South Ockenden	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally and repeatedly battered pub customer	“an extraordinary ferocious and lethal attack.”
25 Jan 1998	Daphne Bidwell (DB)	Thetford	Mentally ill man fatally bludgeons wife before killing himself	Ind Inq. 2003. Bellis (not publ)
11 Oct 1997	Barbara Coleman	Beds	MH homicide	Ind Inq 1998	Inquiry
10 Apr 1997	Perry James	Hemel Hempstead
05 Dec 1996	Marlene Kemp	Norwich	Insane man drives car into pedestrians killing a woman
29 Aug 1996	Daniel Whayman	Ipswich	Schizophrenic woman throws baby off 150ft bridge killing him
20 Jul 1996	Daniel Coleman (83)	Norfolk	MH Homicide	Ind Inq 2001 Armstrong	Inquiry
12 Jul 1996	Denise Palmacci	Bedfordshire	Mentally ill man fatally stabs ex-girlfriend after release from Psychiatric hospital	Ind Inq 1997 Price	Inquiry
04 Mar 1996	Matthew Bowyer	Essex	MH patient sets mothers house alight and kills lodger	Ind Inq 1999 Herbert	Inquiry
07 Nov 1995	John McLusky	Peterborough area	MH homicide of mother’s boyfriend	Ind Inq 1997 Mischon	Inquiry
27 Oct 1995	Ben Slowley (8) Sam Slowley (2)	Ipswich	Mentally ill woman drugs and strangles sons
03 Sep 1995	Gillian O’Dowd	Tring	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs wife	Been ill for 6 years, had previously made threats to kill
21 May 1995	Brenda Horrod	Hickling, Norfolk	MH patient fatally batters, stabs and smothers wife day after leaving hospital	Ind Inq 1998, Armstrong	Inquiry
10 May 1995	Curtis Porter (8) Cherelle Porter (5) Clinton Porter (4)	Thetford	Psychotic woman fatally stabs three children and commits suicide
17 Dec 1994	Robert Mitchell Arthur Wilson Shirley Wilson	Bramford, Suffolk	Paranoid Schizoprenic absconds from open psych ward to behead father and strangle elderly neighbours	Ind Inq 1996 (Blom-Cooper). Previous history of attempted murder and assault	Inquiry
29 Nov 1994	Christopher Edwards	Chelmsford prison	Schizophrenic homicide	Ind Inq 1998, Coonan (European Court HR case)	Inquiry
24 Oct 1994	Paul Smith	Basildon Essex	Paranoid Schizophrenic fatally stabbed stranger to’bring about second coming’	Psychiatric patient
10 Oct 1993	Cheung Ki Ho	Norwich	Mentally ill man fatally stamps on sister