Crime

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. ...

A CYCLIST was left in a critical condition after being involved in a collision with a car at approximately 3.19am on Friday, 24th July. He was taken to hospital, where he died the following day. The incident occurred on Romford ...

A SERGEANT serving in the Metropolitan Police has been charged with sexual assault on a woman member of police staff during an incident which, it is alleged, took place at police premises in Hackney on 15th October last year. The ...

A 25 YEAR OLD woman was subjected to a horrific attack at knifepoint as she walked her dog in an alleyway beneath Ridgeway Park in Waltham Forest. The incident occurred last Monday, 20th July, between 3.30pm and 4.30pm. A man ...

AN EAST LONDON MAN has appeared in Court charged with preparation of terrorist acts contrary to Section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006. He was named as Sahayb Aweys Munye Abu, 27. He was remanded in custody pending a further ...

TWO TEENAGERS, aged 15 and 16, were sentenced at Stratford Youth Court last week for carrying out a racially aggravated common assault on a rabbi. The attack took place in Amhurst Park in November last year. The two youths received ...

A YEAR HAS passed since a brutal, cowardly and senseless racist attack in Bragg Close, Dagenham. Although police have not yet arrested or charged anyone in connection with the attack, they have not given up hope of solving the case. ...

THERE WAS A focus on Barking & Dagenham, Redbridge and Havering as police took further steps last week to shut down an East London organised criminal network which they believe is trading drugs in the area. Police, armed with five ...

POLICE ARE asking members of the public who witnessed a collision between a car and two pedestrians in Harold Hill to come forward. The collision occurred on Petersfield Avenue, at the junction with St Neots Road at just part midnight ...

POLICE ARE appealing to the public for help in finding Hiron Miah (pictured above), who is thought to live, or at least spend a great deal of time in, the Bethnal Green area. Police wish to speak to Miah in ...