Lt Cmdr Neil Rutherford, DSC, (15 May 1922 – 24 September 1976) was a British Royal Navy commander and mass murderer.

He committed suicide in Penmaenmawr, Wales, after killing four people at a hotel and setting it on fire.

By April 1975, he was working as a gardener/handyman at the Red Gables Hotel, Penmaenmawr, North Wales.

Rutherford was married on 7 August 1948 to Joan Margery Colville-Hyde; they divorced 2 May 1972.

[3] Killed by gunshot wounds were the hotel owner, Linda Simcox (52); Simcox's daughter, Lorna (24) and her husband, Alistair McIntyre (34); and a former merchant seaman who had become an antique dealer and resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Johnny Gore Green (55).