Crime

A NEWHAM MAN appeared in court last week, charged with three terrorism-related offences. He had been arrested on 13th April but was charged on 19th April and appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court last Friday, where he was remanded in custody. ...

THE FAMILY OF Sami Sidhom, who died after being stabbed in Forest Gate on 16th April, have issued a statement which fondly remembers their son – and calls for an end to the knife crime that is ending young lives. ...

A POLICE constable who worked in Newham has been dismissed from the Metropolitan Police after an internal disciplinary hearing found him guilty of gross misconduct. The hearing was told that on 10th August 2015 PC Osaigbovo Obasuyi applied to a ...

POLICE HAVE today arrested a 22 year old man in connection with the murder of 18 year old Sami Sidhom from Newham. He has been taken to an East London Police Station, where he remains in custody as police inquiries ...

ONE WEEK ON, police are appealing for witnesses to a collision in Chingford to come forward. A 73 year old man was seriously injured in the collision and remains in a critical condition in hospital. The collision took place in ...

TOWER HAMLETS came out on top at the annual Metropolitan Police Volunteer Police Cadets (VPC) awards last week. The borough’s VPC Co-ordinator Steve Austin was named Co-ordinator of the year. Steve received his award from The Lord-Lieutenant of London, Sir ...

THE MURDER OF Liam Harman, 28, has been solved – with the conviction of Cedric Kiyago, 21, who was found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey last week. He will return to the Court on 4th May for sentencing. ...

A DAGENHAM WOMAN stole over £10,000 from a vulnerable man who thought she was helping him through the kindness of her heart. The money was taken in a series of calculating cons – but the guilty woman saved her best ...

THE MAN WHO threw acid over two cousins sat in a car in Beckton has been sent to jail for 16 years for each offence – with a further four years extended licence. The jail terms are to be served ...

HAVE YOU SEEN a man hanging round Hoxton – in the Wimbourne Street and Shaftesbury Street area? A woman has been stabbed in a lift in a Hoxton block – and police believe the suspect may have been hanging round ...