Crime

A NUMBER OF night-time burglaries took place in Hackney over the summer. With the conviction of Claudius Leroy Francis, 49, a number of them have now been resolved. Francis, of no fixed address, appeared at Wood Green Crown Court on ...

IT WAS JUST around midnight on Saturday, 16th December when an argument broke out in the Vertigo Lounge in Station Lane, Hornchurch. The emergency services attended and found a 33 year old man suffering from head injuries. The injured man ...

TWO HATE CRIMES were committed in Walthamstow this autumn – possibly by the same man. Detectives have now issued two e-fits of men they wish to trace and speak to in connection with the assaults, which were both driven by ...

POLICE HAVE released the image of a man they want to identify and speak to in connection with a sexual assault which took place on an eastbound No. 25 bus between Whitechapel and Mile End. The incident occurred at approximately ...

REGISTERED CHILDMINDER Anouska Coleman, 37, of Lancing Road, Romford, will spend Christmas contemplating the prospect of spending the next 16 years in prison. She had been found guilty, on 6th October, at Basildon Crown Court, of two counts of grievous ...

DON’T RENT A ROOM from this man. He is James Bennett, 32 – and he’s now a convicted fraudster and he’s on the run. Bennett carried out his fraud on unsuspecting private tenants from late 2015 to December 2016. He ...

THE YOUNG MAN murdered in Hackney ten days ago has been named by police. Alex Vanderpuye, aged 24, from Hackney, was stabbed at around 4.45pm on Thursday, 7th December and died at the scene. A post mortem has confirmed that ...

A YOUNG woman from the Isle of Dogs has been sentenced to life imprisonment after killing a young Italian man in Canning Town – in a frenzied attack in which he was stabbed 36 times. Hasna Begum, 25, of Byng ...

TWO YOUNG ROBBERS who used a corrosive liquid to attack their victims were each been sentenced to 14 years in prison last week at a sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey. Sadik Kamara, 24, of Booth Road, Newham, and Joshua ...

A YOUNG MAN lost his life in Hackney last Thursday, after being stabbed in Christie Road, at the junction with Cassland Road. He was just 24. An ambulance was called at approximately 4.45pm. Paramedics called the police and the air ...