POLICE INVESTIGATING the stabbing of a man in Stratford have appealed to the public to come forward with information which may help them establish what happened and bring the perpetrator to justice. The day – Saturday, 6th March – was ...
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Sixth teen charged after murder of cabbie Gabriel
SIX TEENAGERS have now been charged with murder after the death of Gabriel Bringye, 37, a private hire vehicle driver whose death sparked protests from his colleagues and calls for better safety measures to be taken to protect them. Police ...
Read More »Reward announced as mother pleas for info on son’s killers
A MOTHER HAS made an appeal for the public to come forward with information that may help police find the men who killed her son Ricardo. Her plea comes as police have released photos of suspects they wish to find ...
Read More »Jail for Newham drug dealer after Hackney collision
IT IS A ten year jail sentence for a man whose initial wrongdoing was leaving the scene of an accident but who was later found to be in possession of a large amount of illegal drugs. Shofiqul Hussain, 33, of ...
Read More »Barking five in court on firearms charges
TEN PEOPLE appeared at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court earlier this month charged with conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life and conspiracy to cause Grievous Bodily Harm with intent. The arrests follow an operation in which firearms warrants ...
Read More »Hackney music event organiser faces Covid regs fine
IT WAS 3am on Sunday, 7th February, and loud music was coming from a group of around 30 people gathered around some shipping containers in Trowbridge Road, Hackney. Not surprisingly, local residents called the police. Two officers attended and found ...
Read More »Drug dealers: arrests down since Lutfur Rahman days
ON THE FACE of it, this has to be good news. The Metropolitan Police have just announced that 16 people were arrested in Tower Hamlets and Hackney during a recent “hit day”, bringing total arrests to 145 since March 2020. ...
Read More »Bethnal Green woman, 90, suffers distraction burglary
Maruf Ahmed WHO IS THIS MAN? Police have released the above e-fit in an attempt to find the ringleader of a gang of three men who robbed a 90 year old woman in her home in Bethnal Green. The robbery ...
Read More »Illegal ravers in Tower Hamlets face fines of £800 each
WOULD YOU pay £800 to go to a party? Maybe if it was a very special party you might consider it. But if it was a makeshift rave in a derelict railway arch in Tidworth Road, Bow, E3, would you ...
Read More »What happened to missing Barking woman?
POLICE HAVE made a renewed appeal to the public to help them find out what happened to a woman who disappeared in Barking in September 2017. Stefana Otilia Malinici, who is known as Otilia, has not been seen since 6th ...
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