Crime

BACK ON 15TH JULY, a 34 year old homeless man was attending a barbecue in Hackney. It was being held as a children’s birthday barbecue, but it went on into the evening. Just past midnight, four minutes into the next ...

ANOTHER MURDER investigation is underway in Hackney, after a 20 year old man was stabbed in the early hours of this morning – and died at the scene. The scene has been cordoned off and road closures are in place, ...

POLICE ARE trying to re-unite an engraved compact mirror with its owner. The mirror is inscribed with the words, “To Charlie girl Merry Christmas 2015 Lots of love Wendy and Jimmy Xx”. The item was recovered when officers from the ...

CUSTOMERS WERE shocked when a fight broke out in Mahins Pizza Peri Peri Grill on Station Road, Newham last month – and even more stunned when the fight ended up with an 18 year old man being stabbed. The incident ...

A 78 YEAR OLD MAN was run down by a white VW Golf in Woodford Road, at the junction with Bedford Road, E18. The incident happened at approximately 6.30pm on Sunday, 5th November. The emergency services attended. Sadly paramedics from ...

WERE YOU IN Romford in the early hours of Sunday, 5th November? You may be able to help police get to the bottom of why a vehicle failed to stop, raced away and then overturned, injuring its driver and passengers. ...

A MAN WAS battered to death in Ilford last night in what appears to be an attack by a group of men carrying baseball bats. The incident occurred in the High Road, Ilford. It was just after 2.45am when the ...

ZIGGY WORRELL-OWUSU died on 27th October 2016, and to mark the first anniversary of his death Crimestoppers have put up a £10,000 reward for information which leads to a successful prosecution. Ziggy, from Hackney, lost his life at a party ...

IT WAS AROUND 2am on Sunday, 22nd October when the emergency services received a report that a man had been injured near a Marks & Spencer supermarket in George Lane, Woodford. The Ambulance Service and found an unconscious 30 year ...

A MAN WHO ROBBED a pawnbrokers and a bank in Hackney – in one case threatening a shopkeeper with a knife – has been jailed for a total of over eight years. The offences were committed by Dane Seraphin, 35, ...