This is an incomplete list of unsolved killings in the United Kingdom that have been committed in and after 2010.
Murder victims believed to have been killed by the same perpetrator(s) are grouped together below.
2010s
Year Victim(s) Location of body or bodies NotesJanuary 2010Antoine DenisChatham, Kent66-year-old Denis was found dead at his flat in Copperfield House, New Road, Chatham, on 9 January 2010. Murder was not suspected until a knife in his back was discovered when his body was about to be moved by undertakers. A woman was charged with Denis's murder, but the charge was dropped in March 2010.January 2010Sukhwinder SinghAttacked in Barking, London, died in hospital31-year-old Singh was stabbed in the heart in Uphall Road after chasing two men who robbed a woman of her handbag and mobile phone in nearby Loxford Road. He died in hospital the following day, 9 January.January 2010Mohamed Abdul KadirLiverpool19-year-old Kadir died in hospital three days after suffering a head injury during a street attack in Toxteth on 26 January. A local person was withholding information that would help find the killer(s), police believed.March 2010Donavan Van LillBody not foundVan Lill, a 29-year-old fitness instructor who lived and worked in the Wiltshire town of Chippenham, went missing on 3 March 2010. A 41-year-old swimming instructor who worked with him at a leisure centre was charged with his murder later that month. It was alleged at trial that he began plotting to kill Van Lill after they fell out whilst on holiday in Van Lill's native South Africa in 2006, with the prosecution drawing attention to a list found at the defendant's home of methods to kill and ways to get rid of evidence following a killing – a list he maintained was just fantasy and contained nothing he intended to put into practice. The defence in turn drew attention to the failure of forensic scientists to link him to Van Lill's disappearance, and after more than 12 hours of deliberation, the jury cleared him.March 2010Nigel PriceSouthampton58-year-old Price lapsed into a semi-coma following a beating on Southampton Common on 13/14 November 2009, and died on 23 March 2010. Police were not sure whether the attack was homophobic.April 2010Errol McKenzieLeyton, LondonMcKenzie, 37, was shot on 11 April 2010 in a playing field off Seymour Road after returning to Leyton from a work-related visit to Tottenham. Police did not establish a motive.April 2010Niamh and Cayden AdamsBuxton, DerbyshireFive-year-old Niamh and two-year-old Cayden died in a house fire at night on 23 April 2010. Police suspected the fire was started by their mother, who escaped by jumping from an upstairs window with her third child, and she was charged. She was later cleared at Nottingham Crown Court of causing the children's deaths, as well as arson and inflicting grievous bodily harm. After the verdicts, Derbyshire Constabulary said it would set up an independent review team.April 2010Barry RuberyIron Acton, near BristolRubery, a grandfather aged 68, was restrained with cable ties and beaten to death at his cottage in Iron Acton on 28 April 2010. Various items were stolen from the cottage too, including a gold Masonic pocket watch, a Makita drill and a Nokia 3310 mobile phone.April 2010Nicky AyersLiverpoolAyers, a 46-year-old who managed a football team called Western Approaches, was shot in South Cantril Avenue, West Derby, on 29 April 2010. He was known to the police and had been in prison for his part in a plot to supply the drug MDMA in Jersey. It has been claimed that Ayers's murder and that of Karl Bradley in March 2013 were ordered by the same drug boss.May 2010Daniel SmithMaida Vale, LondonSmith, a 22-year-old electrician, was shot as he left a takeaway on London's Harrow Road on 22 May 2010. The killing was thought to have been a case of mistaken identity. Two years later a jury cleared three people of Smith's murder.June 2010James DavisNorwich, NorfolkThe 25-year-old care worker was stabbed in the heart, thigh and buttocks on 3 June 2010 after travelling from London to Norwich with three other people to take property from one of the occupants of a house on Old Palace Road. Seven people have been arrested but nobody has been charged in connection with the fatal attack.June 2010Paul PikeLiverpoolPike, 23, was killed and his girlfriend suffered minor injuries when his van was hit by bullets after stopping at traffic lights on Crosby Road North, Waterloo, on 5 June 2010. No motive for the shooting is known.July 2010Wayne PowellAttacked in Chingford, London, died in hospitalPowell, a 39-year-old DJ, was shot four times after getting out of his car in Higham Station Avenue on 5 July 2010. The gunman walked away calmly following the shooting.September 2010Ricardo CunhaWest Norwood, London23-year-old Cunha heard a knock on the front door of his block of flats after sitting down to watch TV with his girlfriend on 11 September 2010, and leaned out of a window to investigate. A bullet fired by someone outside then hit him in the head and killed him, but police believe it was meant for another person.September 2010Imran FarooqEdgware, LondonFarooq died outside his home in Green Lane, Edgware, north London, on 16 September from multiple stab wounds and head injuries. The 50-year-old exile was a high-ranking member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, a political group with its origins in his native Pakistan as an opposition party, and his murder was believed to have been politically motivated.September 2010Colin HughesLiverpoolHughes, a 42-year-old chef, was stabbed in the chest in the garden of his Old Swan home on 21 September 2010 after going outside to investigate because the back door glass had been smashed. A man seen in a nearby alley shortly before the nighttime incident has not been traced and was described as being slim, white, and about tall.19 October 2010Edith StuartAttacked in Cleveleys, died in hospital in Blackpool (both in Lancashire)Stuart, 96, died in Blackpool Victoria Hospital the day after the care home bed in which she was sleeping was set on fire.October 2010Samuel AdelagunPlaistow, LondonTwo men shot at 16-year-old Adelagun's group at the junction of Chesterton Road and Upper Road, Plaistow, on 23 October 2010. Adelagun was hit in the chest and died, while a companion was hit in the abdomen and survived.November 2010Andrew CrawfordLeeds44-year-old Crawford was involved in an argument after a Motörhead concert in Leeds on 25 November 2010. Crawford and his cousin were punched to the ground during the argument and Crawford died the following day from blunt force trauma injuries to the head. An inquest the following year found that no one was likely to be charged over his death as it could not be known who had struck the fatal blow.December 2010Wayne BassnettAttacked in Hale, Cheshire, died in hospital30-year-old Bassnett was shot dead on 22 December 2010, and a man was acquitted of the act in March 2013. Police believe another man to have been involved in the shooting in some way, but his whereabouts are unknown. Bassnett had been arrested over the January 2002 disappearance of Lyndon Nowell.January 2011Eddie PybisLiverpool20-year-old Pybis was shot on 3 January 2011 whilst in the passenger seat of a Volvo being driven through Anfield. He is believed to have also been the front seat passenger of a silver Ford Focus when there was an altercation in Larkhill Close involving the people in the Focus and another car earlier in the day.January 2011Adrian MilnerAttacked in Sittingbourne, Kent, died in hospital in London48-year-old Milner, a father-of-two, was punched as he walked along Church Road, Murston, Sittingbourne, just before 8:00 p.m. on 28 December 2010. The attack was unprovoked; Milner hit his head on the pavement and died in hospital 12 days later.January 2011Lana PurcellBody not found26-year-old Purcell, a mother of a six-year-old daughter, lived in Queen's Crescent, Kentish Town, north London, and vanished on 17 January 2011. A link between her disappearance and that of 37-year-old Robert Duff, who went missing from another area of north London two years later, has been suggested but is not officially accepted. Purcell and Duff had mutual acquaintances and are both presumed murdered.January 2011Joseph CumminsLiverpoolCummins, 25, was shot in the back in Longmoor Lane, Fazakerley, on 20 January 2011. The case was dubbed "murder in the mist" because of foggy conditions, and a £20,000 reward was on offer for information that led to his killers being prosecuted.February 2011Samuel GuideraAttacked in Sydenham, London, died in hospitalGuidera, a 24-year-old university student, was stabbed in the heart and had his wallet stolen after getting off a train at Penge East railway station on 12 February 2011. Minutes before he was found injured near the station, his mobile phone had been used to dial an inactive and unregistered number.February 2011Lee DuncanEdinburgh31-year-old Duncan's body was discovered on 25 February 2011 in his flat in Lauriston Place, near Edinburgh city centre. He had been bludgeoned to death with a hammer. His neighbour was tried for the murder but found not guilty.March 2011Kelvin EastonMile End, London23-year-old Easton was stabbed at the Boheme nightclub on Mile End Road, Mile End, in the early hours of 27 March 2011. It was argued at a man's murder trial that he and several other men had set upon Easton in revenge for his alleged stabbing of a cousin of that man, but the man was not convicted.April 2011Damian ChlywkaWarlingham, SurreyTwo gardeners found the body of a man wrapped in tarpaulin in a garden well at Audley Drive, Warlingham, on 15 November 2013. The body was later identified as that of Chlywka, 32, last seen at his home in Thornton Heath on 17 April 2011. Although the cause of death could not be ascertained, it was clear that Chlywka suffered a brutal assault and died about two-and-a-half years previously. The case featured on Crimewatch in February 2014 and several men were arrested and released without charge.May 2011Adeniyi Lateef ShodeAttacked in Northolt, London, died in hospital21-year-old Shode was found collapsed and stabbed near the junction of Rowdell Road, Ealing Road and Kensington Road in Northolt on 2 May 2011. Nine arrests over his death were made between that month and October 2016.May 2011Randy Osei-BoatengWest Kensington, London27-year-old Osei-Boateng, a Ghanaian living in Streatham, was shot on the afternoon of 9 May 2011 as he sat behind the wheel of a car parked in Lakeside Road, West Kensington. Within a few days it was reported that two people arrested – a 17-year-old and a 19-year-old – had both been released on bail.May 2011Scott FletcherBody not foundPolice suspicions that the missing Hartlepool man was unlawfully killed, and that it may have been because he owed money, caused a murder inquiry to be launched in 2015 – a year that saw five men arrested in connection with the inquiry and then released without charge. Two more were arrested and released in 2016. 27-year-old Fletcher was last seen on 11 May 2011 near a garage at Wheatley Hill in County Durham.June 2011David GowerBulkington, Warwickshire37-year-old Gower was shot and stabbed in an outbuilding at a friend's home in Bulkington on 26 June 2011. Nine men stood trial for Gower's murder and conspiracy to inflict grievous bodily harm on his friend, but the judge ordered the acquittal of each defendant after a claim had been made that the friend – a key prosecution witness – had fired a gun prior to escaping from his property and Gower's assailants. The murder was alleged to have happened because Gower had got in the way of an attack planned on his friend for revenge.July 2011Karoly VargaWellingborough, NorthamptonshireVarga was beaten to death with a small axe or similar at his home in Cannon Street, Wellingborough, in late July 2011. He was 76 and had moved from his native country of Hungary during t