This is an incomplete list of mass stabbings in the United Kingdom.
| Date | Location | data-sort-type=number | Dead | data-sort-type=number | Injured | data-sort-type=number | Total | class=unsortable | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 August 2024 | Manchester | 1 | 2 | 3 | [1] | ||||
| Southport, Merseyside, England | 3 | 10 | 13 | See main article: 2024 Southport stabbing. Three children were killed and 10 people, eight of whom were children, injured after a man attacked a children's Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga event.[2] | |||||
| Hainault, London, England | 1 | 4 | 5 | See main article: 2024 Hainault sword attack. A 14-year-old boy was killed and four other people injured after a man crashed his vehicle into a house before walking around stabbing people.[3] | |||||
| Bodmin, Cornwall, England | 1 | 7 | 8 | One man was killed and seven other people injured after an altercation outside a nightclub in Bodmin.[4] | |||||
| Walthamstow, London, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four men were injured, one critically, after a machete attack at a pub.[5] | |||||
| Portsmouth, Hampshire, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four men were stabbed outside a nightclub in Portsmouth.[6] | |||||
| Bermondsey, London, England | 4 | 0 | 4 | See main article: 2022 Bermondsey stabbing. Four people were killed in a three-bedroomed terraced house.[7] | |||||
| Killamarsh, Derbyshire, England | 4 | 0 | 4 | See main article: Killamarsh murders. A man killed his pregnant partner, her two children and one of their friends by striking them over their heads with a claw hammer at his home in Killamarsh.[8] | |||||
| Birmingham, England | 1 | 7 | 8 | A man with schizophrenia killed a man and injured seven others during a series of seemingly random knife attacks.[9] Zephaniah McLeod, 29, admitted manslaughter and four counts of attempted murder.[10] | |||||
| Moss Side, Manchester, England | 1 | 3 | 4 | See 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. Daneaco Reid (19); Jamall Walters (18); Romeo Daley (18); and an unidentified 17-year-old were convicted of manslaughter.[11] | |||||
| Glasgow, Scotland | 0 | 6 | 6 | See 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. The attacker, Badreddin Abadlla Adam, was shot dead by police at the scene.[12] | |||||
| Reading, Berkshire, England | 3 | 3 | 6 | See 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. Khairi Saadallah, a 25-year-old Libyan male refugee, was charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder; he pleaded guilty. In January 2021 he was sentenced to a whole-life term.[13] |
| Date | Location | data-sort-type="number" | Dead | data-sort-type="number" | Injured | data-sort-type="number" | Total | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of London, London, England | 2 | 3 | 5 | See 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.[14] | ||||
| Manchester, England | 0 | 5 | 5 | Five people were injured, one seriously, after a man started attacking people at the Arndale Centre in Manchester.[15] | ||||
| Manchester, England | 0 | 3 | 3 | Three people, including a British Transport Police officer, were seriously injured after a man attacked them at Manchester Victoria station.[16] | ||||
| Edmonton, London, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four men were found with stab wounds following a fight apparently related to a shooting which happened the day before.[17] | ||||
| Southwark, London, England | 6 | 48 | 54 | See 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.[18] | ||||
| Bristol, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four people were stabbed during a large fight outside a popular nightclub in Bristol.[19] | ||||
| Bloomsbury, London, England | 1 | 5 | 6 | See main article: 2016 Russell Square stabbing. A man killed one person and injured five others, one seriously, in a stabbing attack in Russell Square.[20] | ||||
| Leytonstone, London, England | 0 | 3 | 3 | See main article: Leytonstone tube station attack. A man armed with a bread knife injured three people at Leytonstone tube station, one of them seriously.[21] | ||||
| St Helier, Jersey | 6 | 1 (the perpetrator) | 7 | See 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.[22] | ||||
| Wootton, Northamptonshire, England | 4 | 0 | 4 | See 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.[23] |
| Date | Location | data-sort-type="number" | Dead | data-sort-type="number" | Injured | data-sort-type="number" | Total | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.[24] | ||||
| Crumpsall, Greater Manchester, England | 1 | 4 | 5 | See main article: Murder of Stephen Oake. Five police officers were stabbed, one fatally, in a flat during an immigration operation by terrorist Kamel Bourgass who had participated in the Wood Green ricin plot.[25] |
| Date | Location | data-sort-type="number" | Dead | data-sort-type="number" | Injured | data-sort-type="number" | Total | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham, England | 1 | 9 | 10 | A man with two knives stabbed ten people in a Netto supermarket, killing one.[26] [27] | ||||
| Birmingham, England | 0 | 15 | 15 | See 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.[28] | ||||
| 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.[29] |