Category: Location: UK

Denise Rosser

Photo of a young woman with curly blonde hair and fair skin, wearing a white blouse.Name: Michelle “Denise” Rosser.
Died: May 29, 2018.
Age at death: 38.
Cause of death: Fractures and internal injuries.
Location: Bedlinog, Wales, UK.
Disability: Blind in one eye.

Details:
Denise was beaten to death by her boyfriend.

Case status:
Simon Winstone (Partner), convicted of murder, sentenced to 18 years to life.

Source:
Police ‘did nothing wrong’ in case of murdered domestic abuse victim
Blind woman found beaten to death after telling friends ‘I’m living in fear’
Woman allegedly murdered was blinded in attack nine years ago
Dead woman’s friction burns ‘from sex’
Boyfriend claims murder victim’s injuries were carpet burns from sex

Bernadette Green

No PhotoName: Bernadette Green.
Died: May 18, 2018.
Age at death: 88.
Cause of death: Smothered.
Location: Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK.
Disability: Mobility impaired due to fall; frail elder.

Details:
Bernadette’s son severely neglected her before killing her by smothering her.

Case status:
Stephen Green (Son), convicted of murder, sentenced to 14 years to life.

Source:
Preston murder trial Day 2: Mum showed signs of severe neglect
Murder accused son queried post-mortem
Ex-police officer murdered ‘burden’ mum
Preston pensioner Bernadette Green was found with neglected rotting skin injuries, murder jury told

Betty Lyons

Photo of Betty Lyons, an elderly woman with short white hair and freckled skin, wearing a green coat and purple drop earrings.Name: Betty Lyons.
Died: April 21, 2018.
Age at death: 85.
Cause of death: Strangled.
Location: Rochester, England, UK.
Disability: Alzheimer’s disease.

Details:
Betty was strangled by her husband, who then hanged himself.

Case status:
George Lyons (Husband), deceased.

Source:
Wife’s Alzheimer’s ‘drove pensioner to murder-suicide’
Elderly woman with dementia found dead alongside husband
Pensioners found strangled and hanged

Kenny Khan

No PhotoName: Koong Boon “Kenny” Khan.
Died: February 22, 2018.
Age at death: 78.
Cause of death: Pneumonia, sepsis.
Location: Liverpool, England, UK.
Disability: Lewy Body Dementia, osteoarthritis, emphysema and liver disease.

Details:
Kenny lived in a filthy house, starving and neglected by his wife, until he died of bronchopneumonia secondary to sepsis from infected pressure sores.

Case status:
Lorraine Khan (Wife), pleaded guilty to willful neglect, sentenced to 16 months suspended for 18 months and 20 days of rehabilitation activities.

Source:
Inside disgusting rat-infested flat where wife let husband rot to death
Dementia sufferer found dead with rotting flesh after wife’s neglect

Ruby Wilson

Photo of Ruby Williams, a very elderly woman with pale skin and wispy, curly white hair. She is wearing a peach sweater, and has been photographed in the middle of laughing at something off-camera.Name: Ruby Wilson.
Died: November 29, 2017.
Age at death: 94.
Cause of death: Stabbed.
Location: Buckhurst Hill, Essex, England, UK.
Disability: Dementia.

Details:
Ruby’s grandson went to the care home where she and her husband lived; he stabbed her in the neck, killing her.

She was a great-great-grandmother who had just celebrated her 70th wedding anniversary with her husband. Her family remembers her “creativity and love for crocheting, dressmaking and bingo” and says she “always had a song to sing for every occasion”. She had lived in a nursing home for seven months and enjoyed visits from family.

Case status:
Antony Jennings (Grandson), convicted of murder, sentenced to 22 years to life.

Source:
Police arrest man over care home murder
Man arrested on suspicion of murdering pensioner in a care home
Man arrested on suspicion of murder after elderly woman dies at care home
Arrest over woman’s nursing home death
Man arrested for grandmother’s murder in nursing home
Man charged after fatal stabbing of pensioner at a nursing home
OAP, 94, has ‘throat slit’ at nursing home as cops arrest man, 32, over murder
Ilford man charged with murder after elderly woman dies in care home
Buckhurst Hill murder: Man charged with death of 94-year-old woman at care home
Tributes paid to 94-year-old ‘stabbed in the throat’ at Essex nursing home
Grandson charged with murder after grandma, 94, ‘stabbed in neck’ in care home
Tributes paid to nan, 94, stabbed at care home after grandson charged with murder
Inquest opens after 94-year-old allegedly had throat slit by her own grandson
Great-great grandmother ‘stabbed to death in nursing home by own grandson’
Grandson denies nursing home murder
Man, 33, guilty of murdering his dementia-suffering gran, 94, by slitting her throat with a bread knife in her care home
Man who murdered his grandmother jailed

Jane Sergeant

No PhotoName: Jane Sergeant.
Died: October 4, 2017.
Age at death: 67.
Cause of death: Poisoning.
Location: Pwllmeyric, Wales, UK.
Disability: Parkinson’s disease, dementia.

Details:
Jane’s husband took her out of the nursing home where she lived and poisoned her with prescription medication; then he killed himself.

Case status:
Richard Sergeant (Husband), deceased.

Source:
Heartbroken man ‘killed dementia-stricken wife before committing suicide’
‘Devoted’ OAP couple found dead together at home after husband visited elderly wife in nursing home every day with bunch of flowers
Husband and wife found dead at their home near Chepstow
Husband smothers sick wife to death because ‘he could not see her suffer’
Man smothers wife suffering from dementia before hanging himself
‘Devoted’ husband, 71, smothered his sick wife to death

Kayden McGuinness

Photo of a pale-skinned, blue-eyed toddler with shaggy red hair.Name: Kayden McGuinness.
Died: September 17, 2017.
Age at death: 3.
Cause of death: Head injury.
Location: Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK.
Disability: Autism (Suspected).

Details:
Kayden’s mother had left Kayden in the care of her partner while she went to visit her friends. The man abused Kayden, hitting him in the head repeatedly; Kayden died of a massive head injury.

Kayden’s mother remembers him as “just a wee boy who loved playing and loved life.” He was being evaluated for autism when he died.

Case status:
Liam Whoriskey (Mother’s fiance), convicted of manslaughter and cruelty to a child, sentenced to 15 years, half in prison and half in the community.

Source:
NI Court of Appeal: Applicant’s domestic violence convictions relevant to the death of three-year-old boy
Autism Memorial: Kayden McGuinness
The tragic death of toddler Kayden McGuinness
Liam Whoriskey jailed for killing toddler
Liam Whoriskey jailed over death of little Kayden McGuinness (3) in Derry flat
Man jailed over death of three-year-old in his care
Man jailed for 15 years after three-year-old boy died following severe ‘battering’

Valerie Wallach

Photo of Valerie Wallach as a young, blond, fair-skinned woman with a pixie cut and striped sweater.Name: Valerie Wallach.
Died: September 12, 2017.
Age at death: 61.
Cause of death: Sepsis.
Location: Toxteth, Liverpool, England, UK.
Disability: Breast cancer.

Details:
Valerie’s husband left her in her chair in filthy conditions and ignored her worsening health, only calling a doctor when it was too late. She died in the hospital 19 days later from sepsis due to infected pressure sores.

Case status:
Richard Wallach (Husband), convicted of gross negligence manslaughter, sentenced to 8 years.

Source:
UPDATED: Man who left his wife to die in pain and filth sentenced to eight years for gross negligence manslaughter
Mum whose husband left her to die in ‘worst conditions ever seen’ is pictured
First photo of mum-of-two left to die in her own filth by husband

Summer Peace

Photo: A baby lying on her back; she has light skin and is bald, and is wearing a pink shirt that reads Hello Summer.Name: Summer Peace.
Died: September 9, 2017.
Age at death: 5 months.
Cause of death: Abusive head trauma.
Location: Dudley, England, UK.
Disability: Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

Details:
Summer died because she was shaken by her father, something that she was especially vulnerable to because of her hypermobility. At the time she died, she was also suffering from untreated pneumonia.

Case status:
Philip Peace (Father), convicted of murder, sentence to life with a minimum of 14 years.

Source:
Dudley father who shook baby daughter to death jailed for life for her murder
Life sentence for Dudley man who murdered baby daughter
Dad Philip Peace is accused of shaking baby daughter to death
Dudley baby death trial told of girl’s ‘traumatic injury’
Father could have caused brain injuries to girl in panic after she collapsed, trial told
Man on trial over baby daughter’s death

Margaret Sims

Photo of Margaret Sims, an elderly woman with pale skin and dark-gray hair pulled back in a hair band. She is wearing a black shirt and a gold pendant necklace.Name: Margaret Rose Sims.
Died: August 20, 2017.
Age at death: 70.
Cause of death: Strangled.
Location: Stanford-le-Hope, England, UK.
Disability: Alzheimer’s disease.

Details:
Margaret was strangled by her daughter.

Case status:
Keeley Barnard (Daughter), convicted of murder, sentenced to 18 years to life.

Source:
Daughter allegedly strangled mother, 70, to death
Daughter’s ‘rage’ behind mother murder
A Chelmsford woman has denied murdering her own mum
Woman appears at Crown Court after elderly woman “strangled”
Inquest opens into death of Margaret Sims, of Clacton, as murder probe continues
Daughter accused of mum’s murder tells court ‘I did not strangle her, I massaged her throat to revive her’
Daughter who strangled own mother jailed