Crime

POLICE LAUNCHED a murder investigation after the body of a 51 year old man was found in a first floor flat in Hood Road, Rainham, on Monday, 2nd October. A post mortem on Wednesday gave the cause of death as ...

POLICE WERE UNABLE to establish why Faraz Ahmed, 27, of Fanshawe Avenue, Barking, ran over a young man who was innocently walking back from attending a mosque. Nonetheless, Ahmed was sentenced to eight years imprisonment at Snaresbrook Crown Court. The ...

COREY JUNIOR DAVIS was just 14 years old when he lost his life in a revenge gang attack. The innocent youngster was sat out, with a 17 year old friend, on Moore Walk, E7, near where he lived – just ...

POLICE ARE CONTINUING to appeal for witnesses to help them piece together how Abdul Mayanja lost his life. The 19 year old was shot in Well Street, Hackney, at the end of August and then died in hospital. A week ...

WERE YOU IN or near Sussex Road, E6, just before 7pm on Sunday, 27th August? If so, did you see three thugs attack a frail, 82 year old man and rob him of his personal jewellery? One of the thugs ...

AN EAST LONDON man who kidnapped a woman and kept her tied up in the boot of his car was sentenced to just 15 months in prison when he appeared for sentencing at Snaresbrook Crown Court last week. The woman ...

A BOW MAN has been sent to jail for 14 years after being found guilty of two counts of rape and one charge of supplying a Class A drug. Amos Mbonu, 48, of Arrow Road, E3, was convicted at Blackfriars ...

IT WAS JUST after last Christmas that Paul Hugh Johnson, 54, of Clarence Road, Canning Town assaulted a 39 year old man at Clinton Road, Newham – in accommodation which they were sharing at the time. At around 10.30pm on ...

SAIF UDDIN is a very lucky man, considering that he attacked a woman in broad daylight ten months ago – grabbing her round the throat, slapping her and pushing her on to the bonnet of a parked car. Uddin, 27, ...

ON SUNDAY MORNING, police re-assessed the acid attack which took place in Stratford on Saturday evening – and reported that the incident was more self-contained that had previously been thought. The police confirmed that just before 8pm, an argument had ...