Crime

GUN CRIME is a serious problem in East London – but this is the first time we recall hearing of a man going out in the early hours to shoot a house.  It was around 3am on 12th January when ...

POLICE HAVE appealed to the public to help them find Mahmoud Mustafa Ali, 44, who has breached the conditions of bail set in November 2020.  His last known address was in Kingsland Road, Dalston. Ali was charged in relation to ...

IF THE MAN had just driven his drugs haul down the High Street in Plaistow, maybe the police would have been none the wiser. As it was, it seems that he had been “enjoying” the goods he was taking for ...

POLICE ARE ASKING for assistance in identifying a man who assaulted three shop assistants and a security guard in a shop in Ilford. The attack took place just after 2pm on Sunday, 13th December last year. The man who committed ...

IN AN ECHO of the domino-playing incident in Tower Hamlets, where a group of men thought they would gather in a restaurant basement to play dominoes, a group of men have been found at a social club in Hackney – ...

A FITNESS CENTRE based in Stean Street, Hackney was given a Fixed Penalty Notice after police found that it was open to users on Friday, 8th January. Police received reports that the fitness centre was open and arrived there at ...

POLICE HAVE released CCTV footage of a man they wish to identify, locate and interview in connection with a shooting which took place in Romford at just after 7.30am on 14th October 2020. The shooting occurred in White Hart Lane, ...

LESS THAN TWO months after a woman was shot in Westgate Street, E8, a 40 year old woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The arrest was made at a location in Oxford. The shooting took place on ...

POLICE ARE appealing to the public to help them find a silver VW Golf which they believe four suspects used to make their getaway from the scene of a stabbing in Walthamstow. The incident took place at around 00.45, in ...

THE POLICE investigation into the fatal stabbing of Abiola Akinrele have led to more suspects being charged with involvement in the murder. Akinrele was found, fatally injured, in Stondon Walk, East Ham in the afternoon of 29th December. The first ...