Crime

A YOUNG MAN who died in Hackney last Sunday has been named as Abraham Badru, 26, from Hackney E8. A post mortem has confirmed that he died from a shotgun wound to the chest. The emergency services received reports just ...

A MAN WITH A HISTORY of violent offending has been convicted of murdering Rodney Parlour, 51, at Parlour’s home in Hood Road, Rainham on 2nd October. The murderer is Marc Croxson, 47, of no fixed abode. Parlour was a friend ...

POLICE ARE looking for a “large 4×4 vehicle” which failed to stop after being involved in a collision in Redbridge at approximately 9.30pm on Friday, 23rd March. The collision happened on the sliproad leading from the A406 to the M11. ...

A WOMAN has finally won some justice as she has seen the man who sexually abused her go to jail. The attacks were carried out just over 40 years ago – in 1976 and 1977, when the woman was just ...

A MAN HAS BEEN sentenced to nine years in prison, with four years extended licence because of the danger he poses to the public, after being convicted of a range of offences in connection with an attempt to abuse a ...

IT WAS A jail sentence of seven years for seven offences of holding a person in slavery or servitude for Leyton man David Lupu, 29. The sentence was handed down at the Inner London Crown Court, along with a slavery ...

AN EAST LONDON man has been jailed for three years, after being convicted of “attempting to take a child so as to remove him/her from a person having lawful control”. The convict is Tariq Qayyum, 61, of Chadwell Heath. The ...

SHERRARD ROAD, Manor Park, was the scene of a vicious attack last August as Emil Asparuhov Hristov, 40, murdered his 29 year old housemate, Dimitar Petrov, who died at the scene from multiple stab wounds. Hristov was convicted at the ...

A PIZZA TAKEAWAY outlet in Brentwood Road, Romford, was robbed by four men armed with knives on Wednesday, 14th March. The incident occurred around midnight. Police believe that three of the suspects entered the shop while one remained outside as ...

A POPLAR MAN has been found guilty of grievous bodily harm with intent after an incident at Alice Shepherd House on the Isle of Dogs which took place last October. There was a dispute at a flat in the block ...