They are now languishing behind bars for life, with some of the killers due to serve decades behind bars before they can even dream of tasting freedom again.
Some admitted their actions, many denied the charge of murder but were found guilty after trials.
Here The Star takes a look back at some of the killings which have really shocked Sheffielders over the years.
Here The Star takes a look back at some of the killings which have really shocked Sheffielders over the years.
5. Kerry Taylor
Kerry Taylor was found guilty of murdering her neighbour after a trial in 2021. She repeatedly stabbed her victim in a row over drugs. Sheffield Crown Court heard during a trial how Kerry Taylor, then 41 and of Ravenscroft Place, Stradbroke, Sheffield, stabbed Simone Hancock multiple times. Photo: SYP
6. Aras Hussein
Aras Hussein was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum term of 20 years behind bars, for what police describe as a “fatal, frenzied knife attack” on 18-year-old Sheffield City College student Reema Ramzan. Hussein, then 21, beheaded Reema in the Shirecliffe area of Sheffield on in June 2013. During the trial of Hussein at Sheffield Crown Court, jurors was told Miss Ramzan was still alive when her boyfriend started to decapitate her with a knife. Photo: SYP
7. Rekawt Salih
Rekawt Salih inflicted more than 100 stab wounds on his ex-partner Tracy Donnelly, 43 and her daughter Louise, 23, at their home in Sheffield. Salih, of Callow Mount, Gleadless, admitted the manslaughter of both women on the grounds of diminished responsibility. In 2011 he was sent to Rampton secure hospital, indefinitely. Mr Justice Treacy told him: “It may well be hard to envisage a time when you do not pose a risk to the public. You may never be released.” Photo: SYP
8. Shamraze Khan and Kasim Ahmed
Two men involved in the murder of a Sheffield pizza delivery driver, who was targeted for his mobile phone, were both jailed for life in 2014. Shamraze Khan (left) and Kasim Ahmed (right) were jailed for their part in the murder of pizza delivery driver Thavisha Lakindu Peiris. Kasim Ahmed was 17 when he attacked Thavisha Lakindu Peiris, 25, who was working his last ever shift for Domino’s Pizza before taking up his dream job as an IT consultant. He admitted Mr Peiris’ murder and was given a life sentence at Sheffield Crown Court, along with his accomplice and cousin, Shamraze Khan, 26, who was found guilty of murder after a trial. The judge in the case, said Khan played a secondary role in the attack but ordered him to serve a minimum of 24 years behind bars. He said he accepted it was Ahmed who wielded the knife and told him that his minimum term of 23 years would have been considerably longer if he had been an adult at the time of the killing. Their victim was from Sri Lanka and had come to the UK to complete a course at Sheffield Hallam University. After graduating he was working up to 60 hours a week with Domino’s to pay his family back for the expense of his studies before starting his new career. Mr Peiris was attacked in the Southey area of Sheffield after he had agreed to make one last delivery trip. Photo: SYP