Crime

ANDREW BEADIE, 20, of Basildon will appear in Court in April to answer charges of attempted murder. The charge arises out of an incident last November when an undercover police officer was attacked in an alleyway in Bow. A second ...

A TRIP TO BUY A Christmas tree turned out to be an expensive outing for one East London woman. She left her handbag on the driver’s seat of her car as she loaded the tree into the boot. Once the ...

POLICE SERGEANT Weeden’s courage has apprehended a street robbery suspect in Hackney. Sergeant Weeden was patrolling along Stoke Newington High Street near the junction with Tyson Street, N16, just after 5.30pm on Wednesday, 11th January. She saw a man conducting ...

A BURDETT ROAD shop owner has been fined £10,000 for possessing illegal cigarettes – and was ordered to pay Tower Hamlets Council’s legal costs too, estimated at around £3,000. The fine came after the Council prosecuted Oho LT, the company ...

MIDWIFE LAURA MacNeil, 24, was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for two years, at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 5th January. She had previously pleaded guilty to 27 counts of theft of morphine, a Class A drug, at Barkingside ...

JAMES ROBERTS has been jailed for life for the murder of Aidan O’Mahony in Hornchurch a year ago. Roberts, 32, of Ambleside Avenue, Hornchurch, was convicted just before Christmas. On 6th January he was back in the Old Bailey, where ...

SEAN THAKE WAS just 22 when he died. He was a pillion passenger on a motorbike which collided with a minibus in Wood Lane, Dagenham, last April and died at the scene of the accident. Driving the motorbike was Levi ...

POLICE ARE asking the public to come forward with any information about a man who robbed a mother of her handbag in a New Year’s Day attack. The woman was pushing her child in a pram along Darenth Road, N15 ...

WEALTHY business tycoon Ranjit Singh Boparan, owner of chicken processing company 1Stop Halal, has been fined £8,000 and ordered to pay £6,000 costs after the company admitted causing “unnecessary suffering” to 81 chickens which were boiled alive in July 2015. ...

WARNING: images of violence below A MUSLIM taxi driver has revealed the details of a shocking assault he suffered in early December. Shahid Iqbal, 50, who is based in the Normanton area of Derby, said that a woman passenger refused ...