Crime

POLICE ARE appealing to the public after a 28 year old man was shot in Birch Grove, Leytonstone, E11 just after 11.30 am this morning, 17th June. The emergency services turned out in force when the report of a shooting ...

IT WAS broad daylight. It was a Saturday afternoon. It was Poplar. And other young man lost his life to knife crime. The emergency services must have thought they were getting deja vu as they returned to Poplar yesterday afternoon, ...

A YOUNG MAN from Leyton is in a Young Offenders institution, starting a 14 month sentence handed down at Snaresbrook County Court last week. He had been carrying a hunting knife on the Tube and then resisted arrest. The offences ...

THE BODY OF Mark Smith, 48, was found on 15th February 2018 at a flat in Warren Road, Chingford, E4. A post mortem examination two days later established that Smith had died from multiple injuries. The police went to the ...

POLICE HAVE confirmed that the woman injured in a collision with a motor vehicle near Crossharbour DLR station, E14, died the following day. She has now been named as Charlotte Kenning, 26, from Goole in Humberside. Police and the London ...

TWO MEN robbed a Willliam Hill betting shop in Station Lane, Hornchurch on Tuesday, 14th May. Now police have released CCTV footage in an attempt to identify the suspects. The incident took place at around 9.30pm. The two men demanded ...

THE 61 YEAR OLD man who was assaulted in Plaistow Park last Thursday morning, 30th May, has died. He died in hospital on Sunday, 2nd June, having suffered a serious head injury during the attack. Although formal identification is still ...

HE WAS convicted of raping a young woman in the Spitalfields area of Tower Hamlets last year. And now Jonathan Graden, 29, of Hackney has had to admit to an earlier offence of a similar nature. Graden is currently in ...

A MAN HAS been charged with Grievous Bodily Harm after an assault in Plaistow Park, E13, left a 61 year old man with a serious head injury. The incident took place in broad daylight, with police being called about at ...

HACKNEY POLICE are looking for people who had their phones stolen in or around Old Street and Pitfield Street on 30th or 31st May. A man has been arrested on suspicion of theft of mobile phones in the area, and ...