Scottish people convicted of murder

Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean

Dennis Andrew Nilsen was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983. Convicted at the Old Bailey of six counts of murder and two of attempted murder, Nilsen was sentenced to life imprisonment on 4 November 1983, with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 25 years; this recommendation was later changed to a whole life tariff in December 1994. In his later years, Nilsen was imprisoned at HM Prison Full Sutton in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Scottish-Canadian serial killer

British serial killer, perpetrator of the Moors murders (1938–2017)

Scottish serial killer (1947-2016)

Scottish serial killer (1946–2022)

Jamaican serial killer

American-born Scottish serial killer (1927-1958)

Scottish serial killer

Scottish Jacobite soldier

British man executed for murder