Crime

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 ...

Kevin Crehan is dead – just months after he and three accomplices left raw meat sandwiches outside the Jamia Mosque in the Totterdown area of Bristol. The four tied bacon to the door handles of the mosque and tied a ...

A majority verdict from the jury at the Old Bailey just before Christmas saw James Roberts, 32, of Ambleside Avenue, Hornchurch convicted of murdering 60-year-old Aiden O’Mahony. The guilty man will be sentenced at a further hearing at the Old ...

Met police detectives from Havering have released a picture of a man they want to interview in an attempt to clear up an assault which took place over the summer. A minicab driver was seriously assaulted in the early hours ...

The two men who murdered 48 year old Abdul Hadi Arwani (pictured), a builder by trade who was also an Imam from Acton, have been sent to jail for life, with an order that they serve a minimum of 32 ...

A 34 year old man was arrested following an incident at Pentonville prison, north London, in which three men were stabbed – one of them fatally. The dead man was a prisoner and was in his twenties. The two other ...

Christine Hewitt, who has been found guilty of trying to fiddle her MEP boss’s expenses, has now been sentenced to 40 hours of community service. She has also been sentenced to four months in prison – but this part of ...