Crime

IT WAS A savage attack on an 18 year old cyclist in Whalebone Lane South, Dagenham, which left him with life-changing injuries, that sawsubstantial prison sentences being handed out at the Old Bailey earlier this month. The attack occurred nearly ...

TWO SHOPLIFTERS put on their balaclavas and made for the Co-op store in Homerton High Street, Hackney, just before Christmas last year. But it was bad luck for the two thieves: police were watching on CCTV. The surveillance was part ...

THE Metropolitan Police have seen 100 offenders convicted for crimes of violence against women and girls (VAWG) since it launched a new campaign – V100 – to tackle the problem. The V100 programme identifies the men who pose the highest ...

SOMEONE MADE a series of threatening phone calls to Finsbury Park Mosque on 21st January. Less than two months later, the police had found the culprit – and he was in court, being sentenced. The calls contained violent threats and ...

POLICE ARE making progress in their investigation into the murder of Jason Romeo, who was murered in the early evening of 18th February, in Bodney Road, Clapton, Hackney E5. There were reports of an argument in the street. By the ...

POLICE are calling for any witnesses to come forward after a young man was fatally stabbed in Hackney earlier this week. The victim has been named as Jason Junior Romeo, who was just 20 year old. The stabbing took place ...

AN INNOCENT man was shot as he stood outside a birthday party. The incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday, 13th October ast year, outside the Factory 15 venue in Linton Road, Barking. The man who was killed was ...

AS A NATIONAL amnesty tries to take converted top venting blank firearms off the streets, a reminder comes from Dagenham about how easy it is to convert the guns into even more lethal weapons. Luke Parr, 23, of Maxey Road, ...

Maruf Ahmed GUNS ARE NOT cool. They are dangerous. They hurt people and often kill them. They don’t stop violence – the escalate it. Produce a gun you carry “to defend myself” and the only way to stop you is ...

IT WAS a text book case in hownot to rob a restaurant. And now two men have been found guilty of burgling a Camden eatery in a story which could be the basis of a “Carry On Burgling” film. The ...