Crime

IT’S JAIL for three years and a decade on the sexual offenders’ register for Sobirjon Boltaev, 26, of Lawton Road, Leyton. That is the penalty for committing a sexual assault on a woman on the streets of Stratford. The assault ...

LIANNE GORDON lost her life nearly a year ago. Now Joshua Alexander, 17 has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering the Hackney resident. The Judge ordered that he must serve a minimum of 29 years. The teen was sentenced ...

POLICE HAVE now charged a man with attempted murder after a serious assault took place in Stratford on 19th August. The charge came just days after police issued a CCTV image of a man they wished to speak to in ...

IT WAS ONE teen against another back in February: one of them died, and one of them was found guilty of manslaughter at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 29th November. Police established the basics of what happened very quickly. Just before ...

A CYCLIST WAS killed last weekend, just after midnight on Saturday, 23rd November. The death occurred after a collision occurred between the cyclist and a bus on Westferry Road, E14. As reports of the incident came in to the emergency ...

THE SHOCKING assault left a man with some 19 stab wounds – in the head, abdomen and back – inflicted by a screwdriver. He spent weeks in hospital and has been left with life changing injuries. The assault happened quite ...

JUST DAYS AGO, Alan Geary, 46, was stabbed to death at an address in Navenby Walk, Bow, E3. Three hours later, a woman was stabbed at an address in the same street. Now police have charged a woman in connection ...

SNT officers from Poplar, Lansbury and Limehouse SNT went back to school last week – and some four-legged friends came too. The SNT officers went to Our Lady & St Joseph Catholic Primary school, where they joined in a special ...

WHAT’S THE biggest moan on the Isle of Dogs? Strictly speaking, we don’t know – we haven’t done a proper survey. But we do know that lots of people are concerned, worried and annoyed by the “boy racer” phenomenon. Young ...

A MAN WITH a crossbow is not what you expect to see in sleepy Alfred Street, E3. But that is what one member of the public encountered between midday and 12.30pm on Monday, 21st October. The member of the public ...