Transgender individuals who have killed/attempted to kill others in the UK

UK homicides perpetrated by males who are transvestites or who identify as transgender = 41

*indicates individual who transitioned in prison following conviction

Offences listed by year the victim was killed, not year of conviction

2021 – Scarlet Blake killed Jorge Martin Carreno (stranger to Blake)

2019 – Rowan Thompson killed Joanna Thompson (mother)

2019 – Paul/Keira Fitzgerald* killed convicted paedophile Richard Huckle (fellow prisoner)

2019 – Philip Tarver killed Angela Tarver (mother)

2019 – Roderick Deakin-White killed Amy Parsons (intimate partner)

2018 – Gerald Matovu killed Eric Michels (intimate partner)

2016 – Kayleigh-Louise Woods tortured and killed Bethany Hills (flatmate)

2016 – Jenny Swift killed Eric Flanagan (friend/acquaintance)

2015 – Claire Darbyshire killed Brian Darbyshire (father)

2015 – Graham Cleary-Senior killed Frances Cleary-Senior (wife)

2013 – Melissa Young killed Alan Williamson (neighbour)

2013 – Paris Green tortured and killed Robert Shankland (friend/acquaintance)

2013 – Alan Baker/Alex Stewart killed John Weir (intimate partner)

2013 – Colin Coates tortured and killed Lynda Spence (business partner)

2010 – Christopher Hunnisett* killed Peter Bick (intimate partner)

2010 – Senthooran Kanagasingham killed David/Sonia Burgess (friend/acquaintance)

2010 Matthew Ashill killed Clare Ashill (wife)

2010 – Paul Hayhurst killed Alexander Toner (intimate partner)

2008 – Gavin Boyd killed Vikki McGrand (sister in law)

2006 – William Jaggs* killed Lucy Braham (friend/acquaintance)

2006 – Richard Coyle killed David Dowden (flatmate)

2006 – Steve Wright killed Gemma Adams, Tania Nicol, Anneli Alderton, Paula Clennell and Annette Nicholls

2004 – Craig Hudson/Kimberley Green* tortured and killed Rachel Hudson (wife)

2004 – Daniel Eastwood* killed Paul Algae (fellow prisoner)

2002 – Richard Cullen raped and killed Elizabeth Simms-Rees (neighbour)

2001 – Christopher Hunnisett* killed Ronald Glazebrook

2001 – Samantha Read killed Simon Spicer (intimate partner)

2001 – Malcolm French killed Christopher Loftus (ex-wife’s new partner)

2000 – Michael Chidgey killed Heather Tell

2000 – Karen Lawson* killed Michael Cutler (intimate partner)

2000 – Robert/Emma Page* killed Clive White

1992 – Robert/Rachel Hilton* killed an unnamed victim

1991 – Stephen Clarke* killed Christopher Vitel (intimate partner)

1986 – Matthew/Maxine Richardson* killed Margaret Bolingbroke

1978 – Douglas/Tai Wakefield* killed Brian Peake (fellow prisoner)

1974 – Douglas/Tai Wakefield* killed Derek Wakefield (uncle)

Unknown date* – Unnamed 43yr old transgender murderer

[List edited  in February 2019 to remove the 2002 murders by  Ian Huntley of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman after Huntley contacted the newspaper that originally published the story inferring he identified as transgender]

Acquitted/never charged = 3

2002 – Steve Wright suspected of killing Michelle Bettles and being responsible for further unsolved homicides of women in Norfolk

1995 – William Wotherspoon acquitted of killing Francis McMillan

1987 Lennie Smith* suspected of killing of 5 children

UK attempted homicides perpetrated by male transgender individuals = 11 + 1 charged

[2018 – Liam Suleman* charged with attempting to kill a member of staff at a secure psychiatric hospital]

2015 – Lauren Jeska attempted to kill Ralph Knibbs

2014 – Helen Doe attempted to kill Kenneth Doe (brother). Doe was acquitted after defence of ‘non-insane automatism’ was accepted by the court

2011 – Joanne Latham* attempted to kill an unnamed HMP Frankland prisoner

2008 – Alan/Sarah Baker* attempted to kill an unnamed fellow prisoner

2008 – Aiden Riley* attempted to kill Derek Graham but was permitted to plead guilty to a lesser charge 

2007 – Joanne Latham*  attempted to kill an unnamed fellow Rampton patient

2001 – Joanne Latham* attempted to kill Sarah Smith

1991 – David Cross* attempted to kill David Halberg & his baby son

1984 – Peter/Rosemary Kirkwood* attempted to kill John Kirkwood (father)

1981 – John/Jane-Anne Pilley* attempted to kill Linda Charlesworth

1978 – Douglas/Tai Wakefield* attempted to kill a prison officer

A post detailing 12 homicides and 4 attempted homicides perpetrated by male trans individuals in the decade between 2008 and 2017 in the UK alongside a list of 7 male trans individuals who were the victims of homicide in the same period is available in here

A list of violence (including sexual violence) against women and children perpetrated by male transgender individuals in the UK is available in this post

UK homicides perpetrated by females who identify as trans men = 1

2012 – Adam/Hannah Bonser* killed Casey Kearney