Crime

POLICE OFFICERS have hailed Wednesday’s dawn drugs raids in Tower Hamlets as a good example of Operation Continuum – which is carried out in partnership with Tower Hamlets Council. The new Operation replaces the scheme run by the previous Executive ...

EARLY THIS MORNING, 5th August, police staged raids on ten homes in Tower Hamlets. The operation was conducted by the Gangs Task Force and was part of Operation Continuum. Six men were arrested on suspicion of being part of the ...

POLICE HAVE NAMED a man they wish to speak to in connection with a sexual assault which took place on a 243 bus on Sunday, 31st May. He is David O’Brien, 51. The offence occurred as the bus made its ...

IT WAS January this year when Czeslaw Swiatkowski, 67, was murdered in Clapton. At the end of July, Dawid Wycik, 28, of no fixed abode, was found guilty of the murder – and sentence to prison, with a minimum tariff ...

MYSTERY SURROUNDS a street fight which broke out in Ilford late on Thursday night, 30th July, among a crowd of people who had been attending an Eid celebration. Despite calls on the public to celebrate the festival at home, at ...

IT TOOK TEN YEARS, but persistence on the part of the Metropolitan Police has finally seen Aman Vyas convicted on three counts of rape and one count of rape and murder – crimes committed in Walthamstow between March and May ...

THE SUTTON ARMS pub in Station Lane, Hornchurch, was the scene of an altercation last Friday night, 24th July. Police were called out at just after 11pm. When police arrived at the pub, they found that those involved in the ...

POLICE WERE quick to act when reports came in that a group of five teenagers were fighting in Listowell Road, Dagenham. Witnesses reported that the youngsters had knives and bats – and police were soon on site. The incident occurred ...

A MAN HAS now been formally charged in connection with the collision between a bicycle and a pedestrian in Bow Road on 3rd July. Local resident Peter McCombie was critically injured by the collision and died in hospital a few ...

POLICE INVESTIGATING the death of Peter McCombie, 72, have arrested a 22 year old man. Mr McCombie was critically injured after a collision between himself and a cyclist took place on Bow Road, near Thames Magistrates Court, on 3rd July. ...