Crime

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 ...

ON THE FACE of it, this has to be good news. The Metropolitan Police have just announced that 16 people were arrested in Tower Hamlets and Hackney during a recent “hit day”, bringing total arrests to 145 since March 2020. ...

WHO IS THIS MAN? Police have released the above e-fit in an attempt to find the ringleader of a gang of three men who robbed a 90 year old woman in her home in Bethnal Green. The robbery took place ...

WOULD YOU pay £800 to go to a party?  Maybe if it was a very special party you might consider it. But if it was a makeshift rave in a derelict railway arch in Tidworth Road, Bow, E3, would you ...

POLICE HAVE made a renewed appeal to the public to help them find out what happened to a woman who disappeared in Barking in September 2017. Stefana Otilia Malinici, who is known as Otilia, has not been seen since 6th ...

MOST POLICING in London is carried out by human officers in the Metropolitan Police. Sometimes they receive assistance from four legged friends, who make a unique contribution to the fight against crime. Three incidents last month show how dogs help ...

A FOURTH MAN has been sentenced for the murder of Abdulrahman Nassor Juma (known as Mani), who was chased and stabbed to death in the street near his home in Barking in May 2018. The fourth man is Warrick Carson, ...

AS POLICE entered the front of the property in Dereham Road, Barking, IG11, Dritan Muja went out the back. With the assistance of a drugs dog, officers quickly caught up with him and detained him. The raid took place on ...