Crime

IT WAS just after 2pm on 4th June when the emergency services received reports that gunshots had been heard in Wilmington Gardens, Barking. Police, the London Ambulance Service and the London Air Ambulance attended. They found two injured men. One, ...

POLICE ARE appealing for anyone who witnessed a collision in Newham in which a motorcyclist was killed to come forward. The motorcyclist has now been named as Zahid Hussain, 37, from Plaistow. Police had previously appealed for help in tracing ...

SEVENTEEN Tower Hamlets residents were arrested as the police held a day of action in the borough at the end of last month. The arrests were all on suspicion of various drug offences, with three men arrests on suspicion of ...

POLICE ARE offering a reward for information that leads directly to a conviction in respect of the killing of Grineo Daka, 27, from Stratford, who was fatally shot on 7th July last year. The shooting took place in Lea Bridge ...

POLICE ARE appealing for information about an incident in Roden Street, Ilford, on 21st May in which a person was stabbed. Those charged are: Lathujan Sivean, 18, of Windsor Road, Ilford; Abde Soliman, 18, of no fixed abode. They were ...

A CAREFUL operation carried out by the Metropolitan Police Specialist Crime Command last month led to a car being stopped near Aldgate East Tube station and its passenger being arrested. The arrest came when police officers found 2.5 kilos of ...

A MAN WAS arrested by officers from the Central Specialist Crime Unit, who were executing a warrant at an address in Newham in the early hours of 20th May. Police have now confirmed that the man is Vasile Alexandru, 30, ...

POLICE ARE investigating a strange incident which took place in Homerton High Street in the early hours of 20th May. Police were called out after shots were heard. They arrived at the scene and found an abandoned BMW motor vehicle, ...

A MAN HAS DIED after being shot in Clapton late on Friday night, 5th June. The incident occurred in Brackenfield Close, E5 at approximately 11.30pm. The victim is thought to be in his 20s. The police and the London Ambulance ...

IT SEEMS to have been an unprovoked attack, carried out by a group of young women in Shoreditch Park, N1, at approximately 7.30pm on 27th February. The victim was also a woman – in her 20s. The victim was walking ...