Crime

A MAN HAS been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering Alfred Purcell, 34, in Newham last summer. The trial of Keith Nelson, 51, of Mountsfield Road, E6, began on 25th April at the Old Bailey. He was convicted on 3rd ...

POLICE HAVE praised a group of children for bravely speaking up and helping to ensure that a serial sex offender who targeted children and teenagers was stopped in his tracks – and locked up. The offender is Peter Michael Fisher, ...

IT WAS AN open and shut case when PC Sarah Medlock, who had been working in the East Area Command Unit (which covers Redbridge, Havering and Barking & Dagenham), appeared before a Metropolitan Police disciplinary hearing. It was alleged that ...

A MAN HAS been sentenced to life imprisonment for attacking a woman in Rectory Road, Hackney. He is Sabir Sharife, 32, who is of no fixed abode but from the Hackney area. The Judge ordered that he should serve a ...

CRIME IN LONDON went up 6.4% last year (April 2016 to March 2017) compared with the year before (April 2017 to March 2018) – that’s from 777,458 to 827,225. The rise happened as the Government cut funding for policing in ...

A MAN who was convicted last month of the manslaughter of Titu Miah in Newham has appeared at the Old Bailey – where he was sentenced to serve 14 years in prison. The killer, Emdadul Islam, 23, had been found ...

POLICE HAVE issued a fresh appeal to the public to find James Jason Hamilton, 41, who was released from prison in 2013 – but who has broken the terms of his release. As he cannot be found, there is no ...

A BOW MAN has been convicted of duping three women into believing that he was a genuine landlord – and then, when they rented a room from him, raping them and carrying out a range of sexual attacks. Mamun Rashid, ...

A MAN HAS BEEN sent to jail for eight years for carrying out a vicious attack with a carpet knife. The assault took place outside Alice Shepherd House, on Manchester Road on the Isle of Dogs, last October. The guilty ...

IT’S BAD NEWS from the Metropolitan Police, who have reported that the number of recorded crimes rose last year (April 2016 to March 2017) compared with the year before (April 2017 to March 2018). The number of notifiable offences increased ...