Crime

Shah Yousuf London Bridge: information appeals Appeal for pink knife info The police are asking the public for information about the distinctive pink knives used by the London Bridge terrorists. The knives are twelve inches long. They are of the ...

Shah Yousuf A firearm was discharged at a 40th birthday party being held at the Praba Banquesting Hall in the High Road in Ilford late on Monday night and going into the early hours of Tuesday morning. This was the ...

Chief Superintendent Dave Stringer, Head of Community Engagement for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), issued the following statement on 7th June, detailing the Met’s position on tackling hate crime in the capital. The Met is committed to tackling hate crime ...

TWO TWEETS to an MP landed Michael McAlpine, 25, of Cephas Street, Bethnal Green, E1 in Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, 6th June. The MP has not been named. In court, McAlpine pleaded guilty to two counts of sending a ...

VIOLENCE BROKE OUT at the Whitechapel eatery on Tuesday evening when three intruders ran in and began attacking a group of diners with batons. The attack was filmed by Mr Sushanta Das Gupta and the footage has been circulating round the ...

BREAKING NEWS: A 36 year old man has been charged with murder, following the body of a man being found in a car park in Ilford. He has also been charged with arson and intent to endanger life. The suspect ...

ON 29TH MAY, an unresponsive body was found in a car park in Castleton Road, Ilford, near a badly damaged car which had been on fire. A post mortem examination found that the cause of death had been “blunt force ...

NELMA DA SILVA is just 14 years old – but this young woman from Dagenham has not been seen since Saturday, 27th May. Nelma is a young black woman who is of slim build and has short black hair. She ...

THE WOMAN arrested in East London on Thursday by officers from the Metropolitan Place War Crimes Unit appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court today, Saturday, 3rd June, to answer three charges of conspiring with others to allow physical torture and rape ...

CAREFULLY planned robbery in Walthamstow left a security guard in hospital with gunshot wounds to his leg as two suspects escaping with a large amount of cash. The incident occurred in the early hours of Thursday, 18th May – shortly ...