Crime

IT WAS  3.45pm on 12th March when reports came in to the emergency services that someone had been stabbed in Hulse Avenue, Barking. The police and London Ambulance Service attended and found a 16 year old victim with stab wounds. ...

A BOY HAS been charged with robbery and possession of a bladed article after an incident in Ilford in which a 20 year old man was stabbed. He is just twelve years old – not even a teenager. The stabbing ...

A POLICE surveillance operation stopped a man from carrying out a terrorist attack. What he was planning to do and where he wanted to do it is not clear: but from the weapons he tried to obtain, innocent people were ...

AN INCIDENT took place in Pownall Road, Hackney, E8 on 31st January – and after a police investigation of a little over a month, three young men were arrested. All three have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder. The ...

POLICE INVESTIGATING the stabbing of a man in Stratford have appealed to the public to come forward with information which may help them establish what happened and bring the perpetrator to justice. The day – Saturday, 6th March – was ...

SIX TEENAGERS have now been charged with murder after the death of Gabriel Bringye, 37, a private hire vehicle driver whose death sparked protests from his colleagues and calls for better safety measures to be taken to protect them. Police ...

A MOTHER HAS made an appeal for the public to come forward with information that may help police find the men who killed her son Ricardo. Her plea comes as police have released photos of suspects they wish to find ...

IT IS A ten year jail sentence for a man whose initial wrongdoing was leaving the scene of an accident but who was later found to be in possession of a large amount of illegal drugs. Shofiqul Hussain, 33, of ...

TEN PEOPLE appeared at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court earlier this month charged with conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life and conspiracy to cause Grievous Bodily Harm with intent. The arrests follow an operation in which firearms warrants ...

IT WAS 3am on Sunday, 7th February, and loud music was coming from a group of around 30 people gathered around some shipping containers in Trowbridge Road, Hackney. Not surprisingly, local residents called the police. Two officers attended and found ...