Crime

A HACKNEY MAN who escaped from police custody has been found – and sentenced to ten weeks in prison for the offence. Kevin Brooker, 32, was found and arrested for failing to appear in Court to answer charges relating to ...

A man who failed to appear in court to answer charges of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs was arrested – but managed to escape from Homerton Hospital Accident & Emergency Department. He is thought to be at ...

YOU WON’T be seeing Sydney Mimer, 69, around Oban Street E14 any longer. This week he was sentenced to 18 years and two months in prison for multiple offences against a young girl, committed around a decade ago but which ...

The following arrests and charges have been made over the last few days in connection with “acid attacks” – the use of noxious liquids to disarm victims to facilitate robbery. A 15 year old boy was arrested on 14th July ...

ROMAN ROAD was the latest location of an attack on members of the public in which a liquid was used as a weapon. Police are appealing for witnesses. Police officers were alerted to the incident when they were flagged down ...

KNOCKING A man down some stairs at a hotel on Shoreditch High Street has landed 27 year old Lewis Beard with a 23 week prison sentence. Beard was also ordered to pay £7,800 in compensation and £650 in court costs. ...

A TEENAGER was stabbed in Whitechapel on Friday, 14th July – and police are appealing to members of the public who were in the area at the time to come forward. Police and the London Ambulance Service were called to ...

A MAN WAS stabbed to death in Romford on 11th July. He was later named as Liam Alan Harman, aged 28. Now police have made two arrests as they continue to search for the murderer. The first arrest was of ...

THREE PEOPLE tricked their way into the house of a woman in Redbridge – and then robbed the property. Since the incident happened on 30th April, detectives have been trying to identify the burglars – and they have now issued ...

A NEWHAM bus driver on an end of route break trapped a young woman in his no. 25 bus and subjected her to a sexual assault – before starting the bus up and travelling back along the route. On 30th ...