Crime

A SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD boy has admitted conducting a spree of acid attacks around East and North London on 13th July last year. Derryck John, of Thornton Heath in South London, came clean at Wood Green Crown Court on 8th ...

CLEMUTH ROBERTS, 58, died just over a year ago, in December 2016. He was involved in a fight in Stanthorpe Road, Dagenham. The emergency services were called, and when they arrived, they found Roberts seriously injured. Roberts died, at the ...

ONE WEEK AFTER New Year’s Eve, Newham police officers were out on the streets – trying to jog memories as they investigated the murder of Taofeek Lamidi, who was stabbed in Memorial Avenue. As well as talking to members of ...

LONDON MAYOR Sadiq Khan has responded to the New Year stabbings across London by reminding schools that he has offered to supply them with “knife wands” – metal detectors which help schools check that pupils are not bringing knives onto ...

A MAN HAS BEEN charged with the murder of a woman in Ilford on 3rd January. The 44 year old woman was found in Norfolk Road, Ilford, that evening – suffering from serious stab wounds. She died at the scene. ...

OFFICERS will return to Memorial Avenue, West Ham on Sunday, 7th January – a week after a young man lost his life in one of the four fatal stabbings which happened in London around New Year’s Eve. The murdered man ...

AN ILFORD MAN was arrested on 2nd January and charged with the murder of Raja Ali, who lost his life on 25th September 2016, at Braintree Road in Dagenham. The man charged is Navarda Rhooms, 26, of Eton Road, Ilford.  ...

A GANG OF three con artists stage a distraction theft in the Natwest Bank on East Street, Barking in September – and police are trying to identify and locate the suspects. It was around noon on 16th September 2017 when ...

THERE WAS TRAGEDY in Barking Road, Newham, at 2pm this afternoon as a woman, 67, was knocked over by a lorry. The emergency services attended and she was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman’s next of kin have been ...

THE METROPOLITAN POLICE have confirmed that they will continue to prioritise tackling knife crime over the next year. Deputy Commissioner Sir Craig Mackey renewed this pledge after four young men were stabbed to death over the New Year. The Deputy ...