NO POLICE OFFICER will face misconduct charges as a result of events surrounding the death of Rashan Charles in Hackney last July. Charles died as police attempted to arrest him. The incident was automatically reported to the Independent Office for ...

AN INQUEST JURY has given a verdict of accidental death in the case of Rashan Charles, who died in Hackney in July last year. The jury added a narrative to their verdict. Rashan Charles was in a car in Kingsland ...

THE POLICE OFFICER who chased Rashan Charles,20, into a corner shop in Dalston on 22nd July, forced him to the ground, held him down and then tried to pull something out of his mouth will not face criminal charges. The ...

RASHAN CHARLES died on 22nd July after police followed him into a corner shop in Hackney and restrained him. The shop CCTV captured Charles being restrained: there are allegations that he swallowed a substance and that the police officer restrained ...

THE DEATH OF Rashan Charles has once more highlighted issues of who has the power in UK society – and increased tension on the streets of London. A vigil outside Stoke Newington Police Station on Monday 24th July was largely ...

RASHAN CHARLES died during or shortly after he was restrained by police officers in a corner shop in Hackney in the early hours of Saturday morning. Police had stopped a car and it is alleged that Charles ran out of ...

THE PARALLELS are striking. It’s no wonder that since the killing of George Floyd the Black Lives Matter movement has become impatient to end the whitewash and secure real change. It’s no wonder East London politicians are speaking out about ...

IT WAS A standing ovation forBollywood Hollywood’s new rugby biopic Jungle Cry at its official screening in Wales – the home of rugby – this week. Jungle Cry tells the story of one of the most unusual – and bravest ...

A MAN IS in hospital with a head injury tonight, Tuesday, 9th July, after an astonishing display of force by police trying to arrest him – for no apparent reason. Witnesses told East London News that the man had come ...

EVHA JANNATH was just eleven years and four days old when she died in May last year – on a school trip to Drayton Manor theme park. It may have been just a tragic accident – but it has now ...