Crime

IT SHOULD have been a simple, fun Hallowe’en party at a community centre in James Close, Plaistow, Newham. It was fine – until eight to ten masked men arrived and stabbed an 18 year old party-goer. The stabbing happened at ...

A MAN appeared at the Old Bailey on 28th October – and pleaded guilty to causing the death of a dog walker and her two dogs in an incident which happened three days before Christmas 2023. The guilty man has ...

POLICE WANT to talk to them – and they asked the public to help identify them. It worked. Now we have a second request: can we help the police find them? Police want to talk to these men in connection ...

A COLLISION between a pedestrian, 54, and a lorry sadly led to the pedestrian losing their life. The collision occurred on the A127, the Southend Arterial Road, at 6.44pm on Thursday, 22nd October. The London Ambulance Service attended the scene ...

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 ...