Crime

POLICE HAVE named the man who lost his life in Hackney last Wednesday as Steven Brown, aged 47, who was from Hackney. Formal identification is awaited, with specialist police officers supporting Mr Brown’s next of kin. A post-mortem has now ...

FOUR PEOPLE have been arrested by police from the Homicide and Major Crime Command who are investigating last week’s murder in Hackney – and all have been bailed pending further investigations. A man was stabbed in Cowper Road late in ...

IT WAS EARLY evening – just coming up to 6pm – yesterday, 17th April, when police received reports that there had been a stabbing in Matthias Road, Hackney. With an ambulance on its way, they reached the scene first and ...

THIRTEEN PEOPLE were arrested this morning, 17th April, as police raided 18 residential addresses in East London, Reading and Feltham. Police recovered a large quantity of Class A drugs as well as imitation firearms, offensive weapons and high value vehicles. ...

SHOTS were fired in a barber’s shop in Green Street, E13 on Saturday, 6th April – and police are calling for anyone who was in the area, saw the incident or has any information about it to come forward and ...

OVER 100 STOLEN vehicles from across London were handled by a team of two men – who sold them on as they were, as cloned vehicles or split them down and sold them as parts. Now the two have been ...

A 75 YEAR OLD female pedestrian suffered a serious leg injury yesterday, Tuesday, 9th April, as a result of a collision with a lorry. The incident occurred at around 10.15am in Vallance Road, E1 – just outside the Asda petrol ...

POLICE ARE appealing for anyone who was out and about in the vicinity of Old Bethnal Green Road, E2, in the early hours of last Wednesday, 3rd April to come forward. The call comes after two men and a woman ...

TWO BROTHERS from East London have been given lengthy jail terms after carrying out a racially motivated attack. The sentences were handed down at Woolwich Crown Court on Friday, 5th April, where the brothers stood trial. The convictions arose after ...

A PRISON SENTENCE of 28 months was handed down to 75 year old Packiam Ramanathan of Burges Road, E6 at the Old Bailey on 5th April. Ramanathan had pleaded not guilty to murder of her husband, Kangusabi Ramanathan, but had ...