Crime

A LOCAL CLOTHES RETAILER was sat in his parked car in Ford Close, Bow, E3 at 5.30pm on Monday, 15th January – when two men, wearing balaclavas, robbed him. The victim, 24, was dragged out of his car. One of ...

A MURDER HUNT is underway in Barking, after a 19 year old male was stabbed in Abbey Road, Barking. Police and the Ambulance Service were called just after 10pm on Saturday, 3rd February. Despite receiving emergency treatment, the teenager could ...

ONE WEEK AFTER Yaya Mbye, 26, was found fatally wounded on the George Downing Estate off Cazenove Road in Stoke Newington, police returned to the scene to try to jog local memories and collect more information about what happened that ...

AT MIDDAY ON 1st February the body of a man was found in an Ilford cemetery. He was found by police who were looking for Seyed Khan, 49. Mr Khan had not been seen since he left his home in ...

REKER AHMED left Iraq because it was dangerous – and came to leafy Croydon for safety. In Croydon, he was violently attacked by a crowd of racists while he was waiting at a bus stop. They nearly killed him. Police ...

IT TOOK Daniel Osborne a couple of minutes to kill Makram Ali and injure several bystanders. It took nine days to try him for murder and attempted murder. It took the jury less than an hour to convict him. Osborne ...

A POLICE CONSTABLE attached to the East Area Command has been dismissed from the Metropolitan Police after a two-day misconduct hearing – which she did not attend. The Chair of the hearing found that one of charge of gross misconduct ...

POLICE ARE beginning to piece together the events on Sunday evening that led to the death of a man on the George Downing Estate, off Cazenove Road in Stoke Newington, Hackney. The victim has now been formally identified and named ...

POLICE ARE DETERMINED to solve the murder of Daniel Frederick. This week they have seen one suspect charged, appear in court – and be held in custody. Now, as they build their case, they are trying to identify two further ...

TWO YOUNG MEN were convicted last October of carrying out robberies in Hackney – and using corrosive substances in the process. They were each sentenced, last December, to 14 years in prison. Sadik Kamara and Joshua Jordan were not alone ...