Crime

THE MAN who stabbed his victim to death in Lansbury Estate Park, in broad daylight, appeared at the Old Bailey last month and was sentenced to serve 22 years in prison. Yasin Omar Amare, 29, of Pawleyne Close, Penge, had ...

A MOTHER and her child were found dead at their home in Lockesfield Place on the Isle of Dogs on 13th August. Now an inquest into their deaths has been set for 16th December at Poplar Coroners’ Court. The victims ...

HE FLEW INTO a jealous rage and broke into his former partner’s home – attacking her and her new partner, inflicting horrendous and life changing injuries. Being jealous was no excuse – and now he’s starting a long jail sentence. ...

A RECKLESS and dangerous drive along the A13 – at speeds estimated to be over 100mph – ended in a man dying. Now it has led to a man from Bethnal Green going to jail. Mohammed Ali, 21, of Barnet ...

BREAKING NEWS: An elderly woman remains in shock this afternoon (Thursday, 17th September) after two men tricked their way into her flat on the Ocean estate. The men were both white and described themselves as legitimate visitors. It is not ...

THE STORY OF yet another East London stabbing is heading towards the courts, as police conclude their investigations by charging two young men with murder. Mohammed Mirza was murdered nearly a year ago – he was founded stabbed in Fullwell ...

IT WAS life imprisonment for Aman Vyas, 36, sentenced at last for a series of assaults and rapes and, finally, murder. It took a painstaking police operation that went on for over a decade to bring him to justice. Vyas ...

POLICE STOPPED a minicab as it went through Epsom on 19th March this year – a stop that was part of an operation against firearm offences. Immediately, one of the two back seat passengers admitted he had a gun in ...

A POLICE OFFICER had to attend hospital after being injured as he responded to calls that there was a disturbance in a pub on Mare Street, Hackney – caused by a man throwing glasses around and being verbally abusive. The ...

THERE’S BEEN an increase in dangerous driving over the lockdown period – speeding and other forms of putting pedestrians and other road users, and drivers themselves, at risk. Now it seems that the reckless behaviour has extended to mopeds. At ...