This is an incomplete list of mass stabbings in the United Kingdom. Examples of weapons which can be used in such attacks include bayonets, glass bottles, katanas, knives (such as kitchen knives or penknives), scissors and screwdrivers. [1] As there is no single, widely accepted definition for how many casualties consitutes a mass stabbing, this article follows the general trend of attacks requiring four or more victims being stabbed. [2]
| Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 November 2025 | Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | A man was charged after two men were stabbed and two other people assaulted in Altrincham town centre. [3] |
| 1 November 2025 | Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 passengers on a moving train were stabbed and taken to hospital before arriving at Huntingdon station. [4] |
| 28 July 2025 | Bermondsey, London, England | 2 | 2 | 4 | Two men were killed and another two were injured following a stabbing at a business; one of the injured was subsequently arrested. [5] |
| 17 May 2025 | Thamesmead, London, England | 0 | 5 | 5 | Five men were stabbed during a fight at a music event; all of them were subsequently arrested. [6] |
| 23 January 2025 | Beddington, London, England | 0 | 5 | 5 | Five people were injured after being stabbed at a warehouse. [7] |
| 29 July 2024 | Southport, Merseyside, England | 3 | 10 | 13 | 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. [8] |
| 30 April 2024 | Hainault, London, England | 1 | 4 | 5 | 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. [9] |
| 30 April 2023 | Bodmin, Cornwall, England | 1 | 7 | 8 | One man was killed and seven other people injured after an altercation outside a nightclub in Bodmin. [10] |
| 13 February 2023 | Walthamstow, London, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four men were injured, one critically, after a machete attack at a pub. [11] |
| 5 November 2022 | Portsmouth, Hampshire, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four men were stabbed outside a nightclub in Portsmouth. [12] |
| 25 April 2022 | Bermondsey, London, England | 4 | 0 | 4 | Four people were killed in a three-bedroomed terraced house. [13] |
| 18 September 2021 | Killamarsh, Derbyshire, England | 4 | 0 | 4 | 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. [14] |
| 6 September 2020 | Birmingham, England | 1 | 7 | 8 | A man with schizophrenia killed a man and injured seven others during a series of seemingly random knife attacks. [15] |
| 26 July 2020 | Moss Side, Manchester, England | 1 | 3 | 4 | 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. [16] |
| 26 June 2020 | Glasgow, Scotland | 0 | 6 | 6 | Six people, including a police officer, were seriously injured when a man stabbed them at the Park Inn Hotel in Glasgow's city centre. [17] |
| 20 June 2020 | Reading, Berkshire, England | 3 | 3 | 6 | A man armed with a kitchen knife attacked six people in Forbury Gardens, killing three and seriously injuring three others. [18] |
| 5 May 2020 | Penygraig, Rhondda Cynon Taf Wales | 1 | 3 | 4 | A woman stabbed four people, killing an 88-year-old man, at a Co-op Food supermarket. [19] |
| Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 November 2019 | City of London, London, England | 2 | 3 | 5 | A man armed with two kitchen knives stabbed multiple people inside Fishmongers' Hall and on the north side of London Bridge. [20] |
| 11 October 2019 | Manchester, England | 0 | 5 | 5 | Five people were injured, one seriously, after a man started attacking people at the Arndale Centre in Manchester. [21] |
| 27 November 2018 | 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. [22] |
| 11 March 2018 | Saintfield, County Down, Northern Ireland | 0 | 4 | 4 | A man stabbed four people at a house. [23] |
| 3 June 2017 | Southwark, London, England | 6 | 48 | 54 | Three attackers armed with ceramic knives killed six people and injured 48, 21 critically, in the Borough Market area in central London. [24] |
| 4 March 2017 | Bristol, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four people were stabbed during a large fight outside a popular nightclub in Bristol. [25] |
| 20 May 2016 | Hampton, London, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | A man stabbed four women in a Sainsbury's car park during a psychotic episode. [26] |
| 3 August 2016 | Bloomsbury, London, England | 1 | 5 | 6 | A man killed one person and injured five others, one seriously, in a stabbing attack in Russell Square. [27] |
| 13 December 2013 | Luton, Bedfordshire, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four people were injured during a knife fight at a birthday party. [28] |
| 13 October 2013 | Begwary, Bedfordshire, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | Four people were stabbed at a party. [29] |
| 14 August 2011 | St Helier, Jersey | 6 | 1 (the perpetrator) | 7 | A man armed with two kitchen knives killed six people, including four members of his family, before repeatedly stabbing himself in the chest. [30] |
| 29 April 2011 | Wootton, Northamptonshire, England | 4 | 0 | 4 | Four people, all members of the same family, were found stabbed to death at their home on 1 May 2011. [31] |
| Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 August 2009 | Keighley, West Yorkshire, England | 0 | 7 | 7 | A man suffering from delusions stabbed seven people after worsening his condition with alcohol and drugs. [32] |
| 23 December 2004 | North London, England | 1 | 5 | 6 | A man killed one person and critically injured five others after "rampaging" through the Green Lanes area of London. [33] |
| 14 January 2003 | Crumpsall, Greater Manchester, England | 1 | 4 | 5 | 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. [34] |
| Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 November 1999 | Thornton Heath, London, England | 0 | 11 | 11 | A schizophrenic man attacked 11 worshippers at a church in Thornton Heath with a katana after hearing voices which told him they were demons. [35] |
| 8 July 1996 | Wolverhampton, West Midands, England | 0 | 7 | 7 | A man broke into a preschool and began attacking children and adults alike at random before being tackled and disarmed. He was later found insane. |
| 2 January 1996 | Bexleyheath, London, England | 0 | 4 | 4 | A mentally ill woman with four knives and five screwdrivers injured four people at a Jobcentre location. [36] |
| 28 December 1995 | Bordesley Green, Birmingham, England | 1 | 9 | 10 | A man with two knives stabbed ten people in a Netto supermarket, killing one. [37] |
| 29 April 1995 | Birmingham, England | 0 | 5 | 5 | Five men were wounded by a man with a knife at a nightclub. [38] |
| 8 December 1994 | Birmingham, England | 0 | 15 | 15 | A man injured 15 women, three seriously, with a butcher knife and a bread knife in a Rackhams department store. [39] |
| 9 August 1992 | Harlow, Essex, England | 1 | 3 | 4 | A man was killed and three other people wounded in a stabbing at a birthday party hosted at Princess Alexandra Hospital. [40] |