Crime

A TOWER HAMLETS resident has been jailed for three and a half years for committing a burglary. He was also disqualified from driving for three years and will be required to take an extended driving test before he can obtain ...

THE POLICE have confirmed that a number of arrests took place at the end of last month under the umbrella of Operation Sceptre, which seeks to tackle violent crime across the UK. The biggest breakthroughs came in Hackney, with the ...

HE WAS JAILED for attempted rape last month – and now his name has been revealed. The offence took place in Hackney. Sean Manning, 42, of no fixed abode, was convicted at Wood Green Crown Court of committing attempted rape ...

POLICE HAVE now charged a suspect with murder, in connection with the death of a 57 year old woman in Hackney on 15th or 16th March. Now they are calling for witnesses to come forward, as their investigations continue. The ...

A man who attacked his wife with a hammer while she slept and who was convicted of attempted murder in January returned to Court last week. He was sentenced to ten years in jail. The would-be murderer is Vladislav Ravinsky, ...

A MAN FROM the Clapton area of Hackney has been sent to prison for life after shooting at police officers – who had come to his house to arrest him in connection with an incident of armed car-jacking. No officer ...

POLICE BELIEVE that a woman who died in Waltham Forest may have been the victim of a domestic dispute. They have arrested a man, 54, on suspicion of murder. The emergency services were called out just before noon today, Tuesday, ...

DANIEL HORTON, 29, of no fixed abode appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court today – Saturday, 22nd February. Horton was arrested at the Regent’s Park Mosque on Thursday, 20th February after an incident during which the muezzin Raafat Maglad, 70, was ...

A COLLISION between a female pedestrian and a car has left the pedestrian in hospital – with serious injuries. The collision took place just after 9am on Monday, 17th February, on Commercial Road. The London Ambulance Service took the pedestrian ...

POLICE HAVE RELEASED a CCTV image of a man they wish to interview after a man was stabbed outside Hackney Downs Overground station on Dalston Lane. The incident occurred on Friday, 24th January. The victim, a 19 year old man, ...