Crime

TWO TEENAGERS have been convicted at the Old Bailey of the murder of Santino Angelo Dymiter. The murder happened in Chadd Green, E13, in Newham in August 2019. One of the two teens convicted has been named as Rahlem Anderson, ...

HARVEY TYRRELL DIED when he was just seven years old. He died back in September 2018, at The King Harold pub in Station Road, Romford. A post mortem established that the cause of death was electrocution. A police investigation established ...

TWO MEN were murdered in Ilford on 10th January this year. Both died at an address in Tavistock Gardens after being stabbed. Just three days later, a man was charged with murder. Now, as part of the investigation into the ...

TWO DAYS OF ACTION in Hackney and Tower Hamlets over the weekend 11th and 12th February led to police identifying over 70 people who appear to have broken Covid Health Protection regulations or committed other offences. Everyone identified has been ...

IN THE 1960s, there were two major attempts to use the see to break, or at least avoid, UK law. •Draconian broadcasting laws were first broken in 1964 by Radio Caroline, a pirate radio station which broadcast from a ship ...

A POLICE investigation into an alleged rape can now be closed – with the conviction of a second man – 23 years after the offence occurred.  Gulzar Hussain, 40, of Seagrave Close, Wellesley Street, Stepney, E1, was convicted at Snaresbrook ...

POLICE ARE investigating a number of blackmail threats which appear to have been made by the same man. He rings people up and threatens violence against them and their families if they do not pay him large sums of money. ...

A SECOND MAN has now been charged with murder and with attempted murder in connection with two shootings which took place in Ilford last November.  He has been named as Tyrelle Joseph, 20, of Banks Way, E12. The first shooting ...

THREE MEN who tried to organise a robbery have each been jailed for six and a half years. The three were found guilty of attempted robbery on 18th December 2020 at the end of a trial at the Old Bailey ...

A MAN WHO murdered a woman as she slept on the steps of the Memorial Community Church in Barking Road, Newham, has been sent to jail for life at a sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey. The convicted man – ...