Crime

POLICE HAVE MADE a total of eight arrests following last Friday’s late night attack on a young Iranian Kurdish man who was waiting at a Croydon bus stop. Police had previously classified the attack as a hate crime and have ...

IN A CHILLING echo of the brutal murder of Stephen Lawrence, which took place 24 years ago next month, a young male asylum seeker has been attacked while waiting at a south-east London bus stop. The asylum seeker, a Kurdish ...

ON THURSDAY, 30th March at approximately 8.30pm, a motor scooter collided with a pedestrian in Green Lanes, Dagenham, near the junction with Grafton Lane. The London Ambulance Service attended and the pedestrian, a 50 year old man, was pronounced dead ...

Warning: this report contains information about child cruelty which readers may find distressing. THIS IS POPLAR in 2017. A father has been convicted of murder. A mother has been convicted of allowing the death of a child. Both were found ...

TWO MPs ARE calling for a review of the light sentence given to a man who beat his wife with a cricket bat and forced bleach into her mouth. Manchester resident Mustafa Bashir, 34, admitted two counts of occasioning Actual ...

THREE MEN were stars in a local video just after Christmas – but not intentionally so. The men are the three suspects, seen in the below CCTV footage, whom police would like to interview in connection with a robbery and ...

POLICE SEARCHING for a man in connection with a sexual assault in Tower Hamlets have now released an image of the man they wish to speak to. The assault took place at approximately 5pm on 29th August (Bank Holiday Monday) ...

NEWHAM POLICE are still trying to trace Shahidul Islam, 22, so that they can speak to him about a kidnap, assault and robbery which took place last year. On 11th March 2016 a 19 year old man was kidnapped from Tollgate ...

POLICE ARE appealing for help in finding two men who are wanted for questioning in connection with a burglary. The incident took place at Next on Gallows Corner by the Southend Arterial Road at around 4am-5am on 14th December. Two ...

HUSEYIN AKKOYUN (47, above) has been found guilty of murdering Mehmet Degerli (49) in Hackney. The two men had been friends – but Akkoyun discovered that Degerli had met up with Akkoyun’s ex-wife and turned violent. Degerli (right) had met ...