Crime

HE WAS DESCRIBED as the ringleader of an acid attack at a shop in Mare Street Hackney – and last month Peter Brown, 29, of Hope Avenue, Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex, was sentenced to ten years in prison for his crimes. The ...

A COLD-HEARTED woman who set her former lover up to be killed by another man – and then filmed the fatal attack and posted it on social media – has been handed a substantial prison sentence. Fatima Khan, 21, of ...

IN MARCH, Rowmando Lewis (28) murdered Tyrone Silcott (41) on Towpath Lane, E9, on the Hackney side of its border with Tower Hamlets. Last month, Lewis was jailed for life at Snaresbrook Crown Court, with an Order that he serve ...

EIGHT ARRESTS were made across East London last month as police fighting moped-riding mobile phone thieves conducted morning raids in Tower Hamlets, Newham and Havering. The raids took place as part of Operation Venice, run by the Metropolitan Police together ...

POLICE HAVE revealed that a woman who was involved in a collision with a bicycle in Hackney has since died. The incident occurred on 28th August on Kingsland High Street, E8. The woman, 56, was a pedestrian. She was trying ...

TWO YOUNG MEN from East London were jailed last month after being found guilty of a series of robberies – and injuring their victims, some very seriously, with knives and acid. The third member of this violent gang was from ...

DETECTIVES moved quickly to make an arrest after an 18 year old woman was sexually assaulted in Dagenham on 6th September. The incident occurred on the footbridge between Reede Road and Blackbourne Road, near Pondfield Park. The following day, Adef ...

JUST TWO COUNTS of selling or transferring a firearm, two counts of transferring ammunition, two counts of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life and two counts of transferring ammunition led to Lennie St Clare Walters, 47, being sentenced ...

WHO KILLED 14 year old Corey “Junior” Davis? The young teen died just over a year ago – and to mark the anniversary the Metropolitan Police Service have put up a £20,000 reward for anyone who can help them identify ...

A 17 YEAR OLD from Ilford has been given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay £75 compensation after being convicted of causing criminal damage after a hearing at Stratford Magistrates’ Court last month. The teen caused the damage by ...