Crime

POLICE are trying to identify and find a man in connection with a series of random attacks on Jewish people which took place on the streets of Hackney on Wednesday, 18th August. On Friday, 27th August police officers from the ...

A MAN has been found guilty of sexually abusing a child after a hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court last month. The guilty man is William Powell, 66, of East Ham Manor Way, Beckton. The Court heard that in May 2018 ...

HE WAS TRYING to buy a grenade – with a view to using it in an attack on a police station. This much was discovered by the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command. What remains unclear is why he wanted to ...

A MAN WHO lives on the Isle of Dogs has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison for his part in the supply of a gun and ammunition. Police continue to seek Danielle Forde, 31, of Manchester ...

POLICE CONTINUE to seek three men in connection with an incident in a restaurant in Pan Peninsula Square, E14 – one of the developments of luxury flats on the Isle of Dogs. The incident occurred just after 11pm on Saturday, ...

A WHITE BMW was stolen in Priory Street, Bow, earlier this month – in a strange theft which involved the use of threatening weapons including a knife and a gun. A man was parking his car, a white BMW 3 ...

NOISY PARTIES can be annoying for neighbours who are kept awake in the early hours of the morning. If they take place on a boat, they will annoy even more residents, as the boat chugs down the canal. The boat ...

A MAN WHO persistently stalked and preyed on a woman in East London has been sent to jail for two and a half years. He has been named as Charles Thomas Cox, 28, of Medway Road, E3. Cox developed an ...

IT WAS A noisy boat party travelling through north London to Hackney that led to complaints from those living near the river Lea – and to Jordy Nicholas Van Duijvenbode being found guilty of breaching Covid regulations. The water-borne party ...

JUSTICE HAS finally been done, after three men from Newham were sent to prison for committing rape and robbery – in the Hackney home of their two female victims. It was around 11pm on 12th June 2019 when three men ...