173 known cases 1993 – 2018

51 investigation 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.

Source

NHS North West Report.

 

Date	Victim	Location	Event	Comment	download
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
14 Jan 2019	Leanne Unsworth	Burnley	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally batters woman	Diminished responsibility
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
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
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
02 Jul 2017	Jason Gregory	St Helens	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs friend in the heart with machete
30 May 2017	Areena Saeed	Toxteth Liverpool	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally suffocated his wife and drowned his children	Family had recently tried to get him MH help
	Shadia Salem (7)
	Rami Saeed (4)
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
30 Oct 2016	Phillip Owen	Manchester	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs man
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
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
15 Apr 2015	Bernadette Fox	Bootle	Paranoid Schizophrenic strangles mother and fatally stabs sister	Off meds and abusing substances	Inquiry
	Sarah Fox
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	Liverpool	Paranoid Schizophrenic fatally stabbed parents	Had sought psychiatric help the day before	Inquiry
	Dorothy Brown
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	Millom, Cumbria	Mentally ill man kills mother and sister with an axe	Discharged two days before incident
	Katie Jenkin
09 Apr 2013	Lisa Clay	Bolton-le-Sands	Mentally ill man fatally stabs partner and young son		Serious Case Review
	Joseph Chadwick (6)
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
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	ExecutiveSummary Inquiry
19 Sep 2011	Tracey Jones	Altrincham	Mentally disordered man sets fire to house killing woman, her son and himself		DHR Exec Summary Redacted
	Shaun van Straaten (15)
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 assesment
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
24 Mar 2011	Valerie Donnelly	Preston	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs and slashes Mother 80 times	MH History – due for ’emergency appointment’	Inquiry 299kb
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	West Cumbria	Mentally ill delusional man goes on shooting spree, then kills himself
	Kevin Commons
	Darren Rewcastle
	Susan Hughes
	Kenneth Fishburn
	Isaac Dixon
	James Jackson
	Jennifer Jackson
	Gary Purdham
	Jamie Clark
	Michael Pike
	Jane Robinson
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 1.9Mb
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
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		Inquiry
01 Jun 2008	Michael Kahan	Manchester	Recently released Schizophrenic fatally stabs stranger	CCTV. Pennine Care NHS Trust.	Inquiry
May-08	Abdo Saeed Al Selwi	Huyton, Liverpool	Mentally ill man fatally shoots newsagent	Paranoid schizophrenia undetected until after incident
Apr-08	Philip Ellison	Preston	Psychiatric patient fatally stabs care worker during visit		ExecutiveSummary Inquiry
Mar-08	Alan Scott	Allerton, Liverpool	Schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stabbed parents	Previous inpatient	Inquiry
	Stella Scott
Feb-08	Geeta Rao	Wigan	Paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stab sister and mother		Inquiry920kb
	Leela Rao
Oct-07	Thomas Grundy	Islington, Liverpool	Paranoid Scizophrenic fatally shoots stepfather
Aug-07	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
Apr-07	Steven Calvert	Toxteth Liverpool	Psychotic fatally and repeatedly stabbed stepfather
Apr-07	Simon Sutton	Birkenhead	MH patient fatally batters sister’s boyfriend with pool cue and kidnaps acquaintances	Critical Inquiry – D&A2012-Verita	Inquiry
Dec-06	Jeannette Hullah	Cheetham, Manchester	Psychotic mentally ill man strangles and fatally stabs landlady in front of her child	Indefinite detention under MHA
Dec-06	Sandra Wilson	Newton le Willows	Mental Health Patient fatally strangles acquaintance	Prev history of depression & suicide attempts	ExecutiveSummary Inquiry 858kbUpdate 260kb
Nov-06	Kevin Redford	Salford	Mentally ill woman fatally stabs stepfather	History of drug abuse and violence
Sep-06	Leslie Brown	Warrington	Paranoid Schizophrenic fatally stabs neighbour after failing to take meds		Inquiry 591Kb
Jun-06	John Speakman	Wigan	MH patient fatally and repeatedly stabbed drinking partner	With Alcohol abuse.(Ind Inq2012 Consequence)	Inquiry 439kb
Apr-06	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.
Mar-06	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
Dec-05	Donelle Schofield	Warrington	MH patient strangled partner then killed himself	Had warned of killing partner , no MH appt
Aug-05	James Brennan (6)	Chorlton, Manchester	Paranoid schizophrenic babysitter fatally stabbed sleeping young boy 73 times	Diagnosed year earlier with drug induced psychosis
Mar-05	Miriam Poulin	Macclesfield	Mental Health Patient sets fire to house killing woman	drug user – MH history – brief Ind Investigation six years later	Inquiry 330kb
Mar-05	Alison Lumsden	Altrincham	Depressive repeatedly and fatally slashes face and neck of partner
Feb-05	Edward Mills	Liverpool	Paranoid Schizophrenic bludgeons parents to death with hammer & tried to burn bodies	Undiagnosed?
	Margaret Mills
Jan-05	Premawatnie Dolamullage	Thornton, Merseyside	Depressive fatally strangled houskeeper with necktie.	MH patient
Sep-04	Terezia Sternberg Erova	Salford	Psychotic fatally stabs stranger	Sectioned (BBC Film on this case)
Jul-04	Sydney Blackwell	Liverpool	PD fatally battered and stabbed parents
	Jaqueline Blackwell
Jul-04	Charles Shaw	Liverpool	fatally stabbed boyfriend in the throat	history of MH problems
Jul-04	Janet Courtney	St Annes, Lancs	Mentally ill man strangled disabled wife	detained indefinitely under MHA
Apr-04	Ida Heginbotham (87)	Preesall	Mentally ill man cuts wife’s throat and attempts suicide
Apr-04	Mary Blain	Liverpool	Paranoid Schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stabs elderly neighbour
Apr-04	David Brown	Blackpool	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally batters man after argument	Previous inpatient
Mar-04	Alan Reece	Formby, Lancs	Schizophrenic son stabs parents, mother survives	Had been diagnosed & asked for home visit, ignored.
Feb-04	Arthur Gadsby	Liverpool	Paranoid Schizophrenic fatally batters father with hammer the day he was due to be admitted to Psych hospital
Aug-03	Stephen Bradley	Wigan	Paranoid schizophrenic fatally stabs neighbour
Jul-03	Richard Hodgson	Nether Kellet, Lancs	Mentally ill man fatally stabs neighbour and buries him in garden
Jul-03	Judith Hunter	Manchester	Mentally ill man fatally stabs ex partner 113 times – whilst not taking meds	History of mental illness
Jul-03	Pauline Stephen	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 472kb
	Hanane Parry
Jun-03	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 508kb
Apr-03	David Crawford	Crewe	fatal stabbing by MH patient	MH patient
12 Mar 2003	George Waitahaka	Bolton	Psychotically depressed man fatally stabs friend
Mar-03	Patricia Jarvis	Blackpool	Psychotic fatally stabs and removes heart from wife, fatally stabs two children
	John Jarvis (11)
	Stuart Jarvis (8)
17 Jan 2003	Tamra Shaw	Manchester	Mentally ill man tortures and repeatedly and fatally batters young woman	Diminished responsibility
Dec-02	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
Jul-02	Celia Boyes	Brierfield, Lancs	Mentally ill man fatally stabs wife 74 times
May-02	Harry Upton (75)	Culcheth, Warrington	Former MH patient fatally stabs pensioner during burglary	Ind Inq 2005	Summary 176kb Inquiry 130kb
Feb-02	Hostel resident	Manchester	Mentally ill man kills fellow hostel resident	Long MH history – Internal review only	Internal Review 197kb
Feb-02	Ahmed Adia	Bolton	Paranoid schizophrenic repeatedly and fatally stabs acquaintance and attacks another	Long MH history, Inquiry announced but never published
Jan-02	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
Nov-01	Aaron Elleray (18mnths)	Bowness, Cumbria	Psychotic mentally ill woman sets garden shed alight with baby son inside killing him
Oct-00	Michael Dickinson (7)	Seascale, Cumbria	Mother poisons son (Munchausens)	Serious Case Review
Sep-00	Matthew Murphy	Manchester	Mentally ill man with history of violence fatally and repeatedly stabs man	previously jailed for knife attack – released early
Mar-00	Emma Jade Dyson (5 mnths)	Burnley	MH patient drowns baby daughter	Long history of MH problems
Feb-00	Joanne Whitelegg	Bolton, Lancs	MH patient fatally and repeatedly stabs friend 27 times	Ind Inq 2003
Dec-99	Eunice Watts	Runcorn	Schizophrenic fatally strangles wife and kills himself	Ind Inq 2001	Executive Summary 146kb
Sep-99	Liaquat Ali	Bury	MH homicide	Ind Inq 2003. Previous threats of violence	Inquiry 213kb
Dec-98	Carol Houghton	Birkenhead	Schizophrenic fatally battered girlfriend around face and head.	Ind Inq 2001, Ceased meds, previously sectioned after stabbing	Summary 21kb
Nov-98	Heath Rowson	Manchester	MH Homicide	Critical Ind Inq – 2001
Nov-98	Garry Warburton	Lancs	MH Homicide	Ind Inq 2002
Oct-98	Irene Lythgoe	Wigan area	MH homicide of mother	Ind Inq 2000
Oct-98	Eileen Halewood	Liverpool	MH homicide of mother	Ind Inq 2000
28 Feb – 2 Mar 1997	Harold Bostock	Skelmersdale	Delusional man fatally shot brother
Dec-96	Paul Masters	Wigan	homicide by patient w brain injury	Ind Inq 1999
Nov-96	Kenneth Horrocks	Bolton	Paranoid Scizophrenic suffocates elderly neighbour	Ind Inq 1998 – care and comms failures
Mar-96	Hazel Horner	Lower Darwen, Lancs	MH patient kills wife and self a day aftter discharge from psych unit.	Critical Ind Inq 1997
Mar-96	Dennis Spencer	Lancs	MH patient killed neighbour	Critical Ind Inq 1999 – catalogue of failures
Feb-96	Lee Kinch	Huyton,Merseyside	Schizophrenic fatally stabs 14 year old	sectioned twice. Inq initally kept secret
Dec-94	Stephen Cuddy	Liverpool	Paranoid schizophrenic stabs stranger	Previous assault with blade on WPC weeks earlier
Sep-94	Harry Johnstone	Oldham	MH patient bludgeons man to death	Ind Inq 1997	Inquiry
05 Aug 1994	Anne Watkinson	Birkenhead	Mentally ill man strangled his mother and son
	Miles Trigg (5)
25 Mar 1994	Lesley Kenny (10)	Wythenshawe	Schizophrenic kills both children with a hammer
	Joseph Kenny (8)
1993	Sean Hughes (18 months)	North West	Mentally ill delusional woman fatally strangles young son	Had previously killed her sisters child in 1981