A MAN was sentenced to 16 year in jail at Snaresbrook Crown Court last week. He had been found guilty of an extensive list of crimes of a violent and sexual nature – mostly targeted at young men. The ...
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Woman found dead in Dagenham
IN TRAGIC circumstances, a 70 year old woman has been found dead in a residential property in Boulton Road, Dagenham. Police were called to the address by the London Ambulance Service, which had concerns about the welfare of a woman. ...
Read More »Police seek men after sexual assault on Elizabeth line
POLICE are trying to find two men in connection with a sexual assault which occurred on an Elizabeth Line Tube train at around 11pm on Saturday, 6th June just after a train left Whitechapel station. The incident began when a ...
Read More »Grammy-winning Talay Riley killed in Silvertown
A MAN killed in a double stabbing in Silvertown on Friday was originally named as Mark Orayibi. That was indeed his birth name, but he was better known as Grammy-winning musician who used the stage name Talay Riley. The revelation ...
Read More »Family pay tribute to man stabbed in Silvertown
ONE MAN has been killed and a second man has been wounded after a double stabbing in Silvertown, Newham. The dead man has been named as Mark Orabiyi, 35. A report that a man had been stabbed in Pankhurst Avenue ...
Read More »Nelson Street arson suspects to plead not guilty
TWO MEN charged in connection with the alleged arson attack on the former synagogue in Nelson Street, Whitechapel, have appeared at the Old Bailey for a preliminary hearing of the case against them. The defendants have been named as Dominic ...
Read More »Henry Nowak: he wasn’t the first who couldn’t breathe
THE TRAGIC death of Henry Nowak was not the first time a young man has died while police officers were not seeing what is in front of them. This has been overlooked by politicians who have tried to make political ...
Read More »Police clear 159 knives off the streets
WITH THE headlines all too often full of bad news about people, often young people, stabbed to death, the Metropolitan Police have this week taken a welcome step to reduce knife crime levels. In a new approach, Met police have ...
Read More »Teen stabbed to death in Hackney Wick
POLICE HAVE launched a murder investigation after a young teenager was stabbed on Monday, 25th May. Sadly, the young man died at the scene. Just after 7pm police received reports that a large number of people had gathered in Towpath ...
Read More »How police investigation sent Imam to jail for rape
AN IMAM has been sentenced to life imprisonment, with an Order that he serve a minimum of 20 years. He had been found guilty of preying on young women and girls, some as young as 12, and sexually abusing them. ...
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