| Date | Victim | Place | Method | Killer | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Apr 1999 (D) 3 Jan 2000 (D) |
Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Chau, 19 (O) Lola Shenkoya, 27 (B) |
Ealing (D) | Unknown | Unknown | |
| Miss Chau, a Vietnamese student at Thames Valley University, was last seen by CCTV cameras outside Ealing police station as she walked home from Ealing Broadway underground station. Miss Shenkoya, a computing graduate and office temp, was last seen at Ealing Broadway underground station after getting off a bus on her way home from work in Perivale. Andrzej Kunowski, who was jailed for life in 2004 for murdering Katerina Koneva in 1997, was a suspect in their disappearances, but died at HMP Frankland in 2009 without revealing any information. | |||||
| 28 Jan 2000 | Lee King, 32 | Park End, Middlesbrough | Shot | Unknown | |
| Drug dealer Keith McQuade was tried and acquitted of murdering Mr King, although he was jailed for life for firearms offences. | |||||
| 25 Feb 2000 | Victoria Climbié, 8 (B) | Tottenham | Starved, beaten & exposure | Marie-Therese Kouao, 44 (B) Carl Manning, 28 (B) |
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| Victoria, known as Anna due to the false name on her passport (she was an illegal immigrant), was systematically abused over seven months by Kouao, her great-aunt, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Manning, a bus driver, with whom she lived. She was starved, regularly beaten with various items and burned with cigarettes, tied up, put in a bin bag and left in a freezing bathroom. Manning may also have sexually assaulted her. Rushed into hospital on 24 Feb, at the insistence of a local clergyman, suffering from malnutrition and hypothermia, she died the following day. The post-mortem identified 128 separate scars on her body. Victoria's parents, who lived in the Ivory Coast, had sent her to live with Kouao so she could have a better life. Manning admitted manslaughter and child cruelty; Kouao denied all charges. They claimed that Victoria was possessed by the Devil, whom they were trying to cast out. Both were convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Social services, housing authorities, medical authorities, police and the NSPCC were all heavily criticised in an ensuing enquiry for not intervening when they knew that things were not right. Two social workers were later sacked and a third was prosecuted and fined for failing to give evidence to the public enquiry (the first ever such prosecution). | |||||
| 21 Mar 2000 | Zahid Mubarek, 19 (A) | HMYOI Feltham | Blunt instrument | Robert Stewart, 19 (W) | |
| Heroin addict Mr Mubarek was about to be released after serving a three month sentence for car theft when he was put into a cell with Stewart, a self-proclaimed racist with a long list of convictions for violent and other offences. Stewart claimed that Mr Mubarek continually used his belongings without asking. In the early hours of the morning of Mr Mubarek's release, Stewart began battering his sleeping cellmate over the head with a table leg. He then pressed the alarm to summon prison officers. Mr Mubarek died in hospital. Stewart was jailed for life for his murder. | |||||