Crime

THREE PEOPLE appeared at Wood Green Crown Court last week and were sentenced for their part in a drugs ring which distributed illegal drugs around the N16 part of Hackney. The three were all from addresses in Hackney and were ...

A MAN WHO failed to stop when requested to do so by police has been sent to jail for 16 months for committing a number of driving offences. Shuahan Uddin, 27, of no fixed address, was driving a Mercedes A ...

POLICE WERE really ticked off last week to learn that two boxes of high value watches had disappeared from a delivery van as it made its way through Stepney Green. The van travelled through Stepney Green, stopping at Cephas Street, ...

A MAN FROM Romford and two people from Tower Hamlets were booked to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court last week to answer charges that they had conspired to commit burglary. Sorin Marcovici, 52, of Dagenham Road, Romford, was charged with ...

IT WAS ANOTHER murder in Hackney E5. Oluwamayowa Ademyemi, known as Samson, was shot in the street late in the night on 5th June. Now police are making a fresh appeal for help from the public. Police made five arrests ...

A SERVING police officer is among six men charged last week with various offences arising out of an alleged conspiracy to acquire criminal property. Few details have been released, but the property in question is believed to be cash. The ...

IT WAS BACK IN March last year that police were called out to Lower Clapton Road in the early hours of the morning by reports that a member of the public had been stabbed. The emergency services found a man ...

A POLICE INVESTIGATION into a theft of over £200,000 from a Whitechapel bank has ended with two men being convicted of robbery and sent to jail. The two were additionally sentenced for other robberies carried out across London. Snaresbrook Crown ...

POLICE ARE appealing for witnesses to a collision between a cyclist and a pedestrian to come forward. The incident took place at around 5pm on Bow Road, near Thames Magistrates Court. Police have not made the date public, but it ...

WHAT’S THE COST of a wrap of drugs? It’s not just the money the purchaser hands over to the dealer. That’s the point the Metropolitan Police are making in a new short film brought out to help young people understand ...