Crime

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 ...

A NEWHAM man has been sentenced to twelve years in prison for being in possession of a shotgun with intent to endanger life and two rounds of ammunition – while out of prison, on licence, for a previous firearms offence. ...

POLICE HAVE charged a man with the murder of Adetokunbo Jordan Ajobo, known as Jordan Ajobo, in Newham on 8th November. Ajobo was fatally stabbed after being set upon by a gang armed with machetes. Two men, both aged 21, ...

TWO CONSTABLES have been dismissed from the Metropolitan Police following case hearings held on 1st December. •PC Lucas Beach was based at the East Area Command Unit in Romford. He appeared at Basildon Crown Court on 29th June, where he pleaded ...

Six arrests were recently made in Operation Grandbye after police took sustained action to deal with what the potential danger to young women who had been seen hanging around with older men in and around Stratford Shopping Mall. Detective Inspector ...

SIX MEN HAVE been arrested in an operation launched by the Metropolitan Police Sexual Exploitation Team began Operation Grandbye at the start of November in an attempt to safeguard young girls in Newham. The Operation began after concerns grew about ...

HE TOLD Police: “I’m going to kill a Muslim. I’m doing this for Britain. This is the way I am going to help the country. You people can’t do anything. I am going to do it my way because that ...

POLICE HAVE charged Salman Ahmed, 22, of no fixed abode, with murder of Lamar Stewart. A 21 year old man who had been arrested on suspicion of murder is still on bail as detectives continue their investigation. Lamar lived in ...

TWO MORE MEN have been arrested as police investigate the murder of Kaan Aslan, 20, on the Nightingale estate in Hackney – but police are still some way short of a breakthrough. Aslan was stabbed to death in the early ...

MARCUS MENSAH, 33, was left fighting for his life after being attacked in a stairwell in Kelland Road, E13, on Monday, 2nd November. Police are now appealing for witnesses to come forward and help them find whoever carried out the ...