Crime

A NEWHAM man has been charged with encouraging terrorism, contrary to Section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2006. Shafi Mohammed Saleem, 28, of Forest Gate, was originally arrested on 19th April. He was released on bail while police investigated the ...

Police are appealing for witnesses after a 28 year old man died from stab wounds at a block of flats in Straight Road, Romford, on 11th July. Police and the London Ambulance Service were called out to the address just ...

FOUR MEN are to appear in court after a Hackney Council Enforcement Officer was assaulted in Leaside Road, E5, on 16th January. Those summonsed are: •Osher Freidman, 30, of Wargrave Avenue, N15; •Mordechai Freidman, 31, of Fairholt Road, N16; •Benjamin ...

HE PLEADED guilty to two counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault as well as a range of other linked offences – and that’s why Jahir Hussain, 37, of Morris Road, E14 is now in jail. The minicab ...

OFFICERS FROM THE Metropolitan Police Trident and Area Crime Command obtain a warrant to search the East London home of Endurance Omogun-Eichie, 20, in Cormorant Road, E7. The search was carried out in February. It was well worth the effort: ...

POLICE HAVE released the above photo of a man wanted for questioning in connection with an assault which took place in Brick Lane on 1st November 2016. A man and his girlfriend were walking down the Lane when a man ...

Operation Duntroon has been working away patiently for six months in an intelligence-led attempt to dismantle an organised crime gang of drug suppliers and dealers in class A drugs in Newham. Last week a number of arrests were made. Some ...

A TEN YEAR OLD girl’s quick thinking saved her from a becoming a victim after a man tried to encourage her to get into his van. Now the police are appealing for witnesses so that they can try to identify ...

A MAN WALKING his dog on Wanstead Flats has been brutally assaulted by three men – and police are appealing for witnesses to come forward in the hope of being able to identify the suspects. The incident occurred on Saturday, ...

IT WAS NEARLY 1am on 7th July 2016. Two cars drove into Frimley Way, E1, and three men got out. Akikul Islam sat in his car as the three fell into an argument with a group of about ten men ...