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 = 43
*indicates individual who transitioned in prison following conviction
Offences listed by year the victim was killed, not year of conviction
2021 – Jason Graham/Evans raped and killed Esther Brown (stranger to Graham/Evans)
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)
2014 – Keith/Gladys Solly killed Yvonne Tapp (intimate partner)
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 East Anglia
1995 – William Wotherspoon acquitted of killing Francis McMillan
1987 – Lennie Smith* suspected of killing five children
UK attempted homicides perpetrated by male transgender individuals = 12 [+ 1 charged]
2018 – David Smith/Attila Taylor* raped and attempted to kill pregnant partner
[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 = 2
2008 – Nicolle/Kobi Earley* killed Ann Grey
2012 – Adam/Hannah Bonser* killed Casey Kearney