Crime

IT TOOK just over four years, but at last two East London men have been sent to prison for sexual offences against a child. The men were convicted after a four day trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court last November and ...

IT WAS, in some senses, an easy investigation for the Metropolitan Police. Once they gained access to their suspect’s phone, they found over 2,000 WhatsApp messages in which the suspect and his accomplice planned a murder. The story began on ...

ONE MAN FROM Newham and another from Bow were members of a crime gang jailed last month after a complex police investigation into the supply of firearms and ammunition in East London and Essex. The investigation took hundreds of hours ...

THE MURDER OF John Avers, 47, has been described by a police officer who worked on the investigation as “barbaric”. The evidence before the court exposed two heartless murderers – and the seedy side of drug trafficking in the heart ...

A COLLISION on the A13 IN Newham on Saturday, 15th January left a motorcyclist seriously injured. Police are appealing for any witnesses to come forward. It was just after 7am that day when police received reports that a collision had ...

A VIOLENT crime spree in Romford and Ilford came to an end earlier this month when two teens appeared at Thames Magistrates Court to face charges relating to the death of Josephine Smith in Romford. It was 28th October the ...

THE POLICE investigation began with a phone call from a man who said that he had been stabbed in Mare Street. He said that a group of men were going round stabbing people – and one of them had stolen ...

IT WAS JAIL for Mamun Rashid, 28, after he appeared at Woolwich Crown Court on 6th January 2022 – twelve years and three months, to be precise, followed by an extended five year licence period. The Court heard that Rashid ...

A YOUNG MAN lost his life in a collision between a car and a motorcycle in Redbridge on 17th December. Police are investigation the circumstances of the accident and have now appealed for any witnesses to come forward. The collision ...

TWO MEN in their 20s became involved in an altercation with a third man after they left a bar in Curtain Road, Shoreditch. The incident occurred shortly after 11pm on Sunday, 11th July. During the altercation, both men were assaulted. ...