Crime

ARE THEY arson attacks? And are they hate crimes? These are the questions being asked as police investigate a series of small fires which have taken place across East London in recent days. •It began on Wednesday, 19th June, when ...

A MAN WILL appear at Snaresbrook County Court on Friday, 28th June in connection with the death of Steven Kennedy on 30th May. Mr Kennedy, 61, died after being assaulted in Plaistow Park. The man due to attend court is ...

A GROUP OF MEN disturbed the peace in Stepney… by launching an attack on a vehicle. The men were armed with machetes and axes. Fortunately police officers from the Metropolitan Police Response Team B turned out quickly. The driver of ...

IT WAS A LIFE sentence for Carol Campling, 39, when she appeared at the Old Bailey for sentencing on 21st June. Campling, of Garenne Court, Warren Road, E4, had been found guilty just two weeks previously of murderering her neighbour, ...

A MAN AND A WOMAN have been remanded in custody – charged in connection with with the killing of Giedrius Juskauskas in Stratford last Monday, 17th June. They will next appear at the Old Bailey on 27th June. Juskauskas was ...

A MAN DIED and a second man was critically injured in a fire in Ilford last Tuesday – and police believe they may have been sleeping rough, perhaps with a small number of other people, on scrub land near the ...

A BRAVE MEMBER of staff stopped an early morning attempted robbery at a newsagent in Roman Road, Tower Hamlets, E2 in the early hours of Tuesday morning, 18th June. A man came into the newsagent at about 6am. He produced ...

HACKNEY POLICE have offered a reward of up to £20,000 for information which leads to the conviction of the killer of Alex Vanderpuye, 24, in Hackney back in December 2017. Alex lived in Hackney – and police found him in ...

THE MAN found dying in Alton Street, Poplar on Saturday lunchtime has been named. He was Gleb Stanislavovitch Zhebrovsky,34, a Poplar resident originally from Russia, who was known locally as Gleb Stalnoy. The name was released on the day that ...

A 42 YEAR OLD man lost his life in Stratford in the early hours of this morning – and police are appealing for anyone who was in the area to come forward, as they piece together what went on. It ...