Crime

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 ...

JOHN TOMLIN returned to jail today – a guilty man, waiting to be sentenced for grievous bodily harm with intent as a result of an incident on 21st June, when he threw acid at two people sitting in a car ...

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 ...