Crime

A MAN WHO murdered a woman as she slept on the steps of the Memorial Community Church in Barking Road, Newham, has been sent to jail for life at a sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey. The convicted man – ...

THERE HAVE been two robberies in the area of Plashet Park, Newham, E12 this month – and police are appealing to the public to come forward with any information which may assist them to stop this menace. The first offence ...

POLICE HAVE asked the public to help them find the young man who raped a young teenage girl in Goodmayes Park on Monday, 1st February. The incident occurred at round 2.30pm. The teenager was jogging round the Park when she ...

IT’S BEEN A busy time for police officers from the Metropolitan Police East Area Command (which covers Barking & Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge). They have closed and dismantled 72 cannabis factories over the last six months. The police believe that ...

A MAN has appeared at Thames Magistrates Court charged with impersonating a police officer. He has been named as Martin McCarthy, 29, of Fairfoot Road, E3, in Tower Hamlets. It is alleged that McCarthy impersonated a police officer in the ...

IT IS 50 YEARS since the first Asian woman joined the Metropolitan Police. PC Karpal Kaur Sandhu joined the force in 1971. The Met held a special – virtual – event to mark the occasion and remember this pioneering woman. ...

POLICE HAVE released a CCTV image of a man they wish to interview in connection with a sexual assault on a girl travelling on a number 55 bus in Hackney just before 5pm on 17th November last year. The incident ...

IT WAS JAIL for Martin Sparks, 47 of Maldon Walk, Redbridge – after he was found guilty of downloading and viewing over 200 indecent images of children. The offences were committed while he was under a suspended sentence for committing ...

A TEENAGER has appeared in Court after being charged with murder in connection with the death of a woman in Whitechapel. He has been named as David Cheres, 19, of Ellen Street, Whitechapel. The murder victim has been named as ...

IT WAS A truly horrific ordeal – the sort that none of us would want to suffer or have done to our loved ones. But it happened in Newham, and now police are appealing for any witnesses to come forward. ...