Crime

ONE OF THE most brutal attacks in East London last year was carried out in East Ham in August. Three men attacked Ahmet Dobran, as he was peacefully going about his everyday life. One of the men grabbed Mr Dobran ...

THE POLICE have named the 17 year old who suffered fatal stab wounds in Canning Town during the evening of 14th February. He is Lord Promise Nkenda, who used the name Promise. He was from Newham. Formal identification is still ...

VALENTINE’S DAY was not a day of love in Goldwing Close, E16: it was a day of death, as another young man has lost his life in an East London stabbing. It was still early evening – just after 8pm ...

SANDEL SERBU died in Ilford on 12th November last year. Now police from the Homicide and Major Crime Command have released the names and pictures of two men they wish to question in connection with his death. The London Ambulance ...

AN EAST LONDON MAN has been jailed for two years for encouraging terrorism. Shafi Mohammed Saleem, 28, used over 20 Twitter and Instagram handles to pump out images  and messages promoting Daesh over several months. Metropolitan Police detectives investigated the ...

POLICE CONTINUE to search for a man in connection with an attempted robbery and sexual assault in Fentons Avenue, Newham E13 which took place at approximately 10.30pm on 3rd May 2017. The attack is being investigated by officers from the ...

IT WAS THE TWO packages sent to their address in Lansbury Avenue, Romford, that led to their downfall. The packages, batches of herbal cannabis, sent in December 2015 and April 2016, were intercepted by the National Crime Agency, based at ...

IT WAS AROUND 6pm on Tuesday, 13th February that police received a report that a woman had died at an address in Staines Road, Ilford. When they got into the property, they found a 54 year old woman with serious ...

GUNSHOTS HEARD in Butchers Road, Canning Town, in the early hours of 30th December led to a police hunt for the gunman. Now a man has been charged with possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. ...

THE METROPOLITAN POLICE are taking a new model of organisation – piloted in East London – and rolling it out across the capital. No more will each borough have its own police force, as new Basic Command Units (BCUs) will ...