List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom (1990s)

This is an incomplete list of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom that were committed between 1990 and 1999. The list excludes any murders in Northern Ireland related to The Troubles (which formally ended in 1998), or are related to IRA bombings that occurred in England.

Victims believed to have been killed by the same perpetrator(s) are grouped together below.

Year Victim(s) Location of body or bodies NotesJanuary 1990William HoweWorthing, West SussexThe body of the 63-year-old retired vet was discovered tied up in his flat on 9 January 1990. Because the flat had been ransacked, and because he had tens of thousands of pounds hidden in a safe there (which the offender/s did not find), theft is thought to have been the motive for the killing. In the period leading up to Howe's death, he was tortured by being hit with a hammer and having his back stamped or kneeled on, suffering broken ribs as a consequence. The cause of his death was asphyxia, and it is believed he died the day before police discovered his body.January 1990Bridget BrosnanStevenage, Hertfordshire70-year-old Brosnan died in a hospital's psychiatric ward on 10 January 1990. The nurse who reported the death claimed at first that Brosnan had suffered a cardiac arrest, but later changed her story to say that the deceased had used tights to hang herself from the bedhead. A Home Office pathologist concluded that Brosnan had struggled with an attacker before suffocating to death as a result of being pressed face-down into bedding. Nobody has been tried for Brosnan's murder or manslaughter, but the nurse and a colleague of hers did get convicted of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.January 1990Doris KellettCleckheaton, West Yorkshire92-year-old Kellett was hammered to death at her home on 17 January 1990. It is likely that the person who delivered the blows to her head had an accomplice, for a witness reported having seen two men (one with a clipboard) talking to her on her doorstep about 45 minutes before her home help discovered her body. Kellett's pension money was missing from the house, as was a ring and an amber paperweight. There are suspicions that her attacker tricked his way in by pretending to be an official.January 1990William DalzielAttacked in Acton, London, died in hospital61-year-old Dalziel was battered with a heavy object and robbed of his wallet outside a home for the elderly in Edgecote Close during the early hours of 15 January 1990. He died four days later. Because the investigation into the killing of the Shepherd's Bush resident found him to have been a private man who seldom left his flat after dusk, police were not able to establish why he was out in neighbouring Acton at the time he was set upon.January 1990Surinder GillHounslow, LondonGill, 33, was an insurance salesman who drove a distinctive modified dark red Mercedes with the index number 16 GLL. He was found stabbed to death in his car in Beavers Open Space, Hounslow, on 30 January 1990. Events surrounding Gill's murder were reconstructed on Crimewatch in April 1990.February 1990Brian FitzmauriceLiverpool48-year-old Fitzmaurice was stabbed to death with a stiletto knife at or near his home in Oxford Road, Huyton, on 3 February 1990. He was attacked at around 12:20 a.m. while walking home from his daughter's residence, which was also in Oxford Road and which he had visited after drinking at a pub in Huyton's Hall Lane. No motive could be found.February 1990Richard HumphreysBody not foundThe 51-year-old taxi driver vanished on 3 February 1990 and his Ford Sierra was found abandoned with bloodstains inside it in a car park at Heathrow Airport (some miles from Whyteleafe, the Surrey village where he lived) on 12 February. A forensic re-examination of the car in 2012 did not give detectives the breakthrough they were hoping for.February 1990Joseph McEwanSlough, Berkshire38-year-old McEwan was found with bullet wounds to his head at his home in Aldridge Road, Slough. Nine arrests were made over the Valentine's Day killing, but none of the arrested people was charged.February 1990Kevin ChilderleyMansfield, NottinghamshireIntruders armed with weapons attacked 30-year-old Kevin Childerley and his wife as they lay in bed, leading to his death and to her losing the sight in her right eye. Two men were charged with the murder of Mr Childerley and the attempted murder of Mrs Childerley, but a judge directed a jury to acquit the suspects because a medical expert did not believe Mrs Childerley had genuine memories of the attack.March 1990Jason RavenscroftTelford, ShropshireSix-week-old Ravenscroft's death on 16 March 1990 was caused by his skull being fractured at his home in Dawley, Telford. A jury cleared his mother's ex-partner of murder and manslaughter in June 1991 after being advised that only the accused or the mother could have been the perpetrator. The accused was cleared of assaulting the mother too but convicted of causing actual bodily harm to Ravenscroft's twin.March 1990Jack RoyalSunniside, Tyne and WearRoyal, 58, was killed with a shotgun in the porch of his house in Sunniside on 19 March 1990. The former science teacher had himself killed someone in January 1987, although a jury accepted his claim that he had been acting in self-defence and found him not guilty accordingly. In April 1990, a local man was charged with Royal's murder. The 21-year-old's sister had, at the time of his death in 1987, been the partner of the man killed by Royal, and this was viewed as a motive. However, he was cleared in June 1991.