Crime

CRIME RELATED to mobile phones was the target of a national police operation throughout September. In Tower Hamlets, police joined forces with Tower Hamlets Council’s “Regulatory Service” team to bring local results. As part of the partnership working, neighbourhood police ...

A MOPED driver died in a collision with a car on Thursday, 15th October. The collision occurred on the Lea Bridge Road, near Chatsworth Road, in Hackney, just after 7pm. Now the Metropolitan Police are asking for anyone who witnessed ...

FOUR MEN had already appeared in Court to face murder charges after the death of Masum Miah in Newham. Now a fifth man has also been charged with murder. It was in the early hours of 18th August that reports ...

IT PRESENTED as a Lemon & Lime flavoured vape, and the shop sold it to a 17 year old customer. However, that vape contained nicotine – and it’s illegal to sell vapes containing nicotine to under-18s. The shop that sold ...

THE JUDGE called him a “dangerous offender” – and that was no exaggeration. A burglary that went wrong led to the death of John Burke, 86 – and the burglar is now paying the price. The Court heard the heart-rending ...

A MAN WHO killed his own mother was sentenced to life imprisonment, to serve a minimum of 22 years at a hearing at the Old Bailey on 28th September. Richard Clayton, 45, had strangled her – and then rang police ...

A MAN has been jailed for life after a shooting classified as attempted murder. He did not pull the trigger himself. Although he was convicted of attempted murder, he recruited someone else to carry out the shooting. The jailed man ...

ONE MAN has already been charged with murder – and now three other men are also facing a murder charge. The men have now been named after attending Court, where they were all remanded in custody. The murdered man is ...

FOUR PEOPLE have been sentenced to a total of 23 years in prison for their parts in running a criminal network which trafficked 24 Thai women. The convictions came after a detailed investigation by the Metropolitan Police Slavery and Child ...

CAN YOU help the Metropolitan Police identify and find these men? The police wish to talk to them after a teenage girl was raped in Bethnal Green two years ago. At around 11.30pm on Thursday, 1st April police received reports ...