Crime

A POLICE investigation is underway after two people were found dead in Dagenham, last Saturday, 9th August. Police believe that the two people knew each other and no one else is being sought in connection with the deaths. Police were ...

TWO TEENS, both 16, were on trial at the Old Bailey in connection with the murder of Baptista Adjei in Stratford last October. On Tuesday this week, one was found guilty of murder and wounding. The other was found not ...

IT TOOK TWO trials at the Old Bailey, but Yasin Omar Amare, 29, of Pawleyne Close, Penge, has now been found guilty of murdering Gleb Stanislavovitch Zhebrovsky (known as Gleb Stalnoy). The first trial took place at the Old Bailey ...

OVER 100 bikes have been recovered in Hackney – and police believe many, if not all, were probably stolen. Two men were arrested during the raid on suspicion of handling stolen goods and possession of criminal property. One of the ...

A SET OF early morning raids were carried out in Waltham Forest in the early morning of 6th August. Warrants for the raids were issued after a three month police effort named Operation Beamond, designed to target violence and drug ...

THE SORRY STORY began when Jack Bush, 24, of Oakdale Road, E11, got into a fight with Constantin Sin on High Road in Leytonstone in the early hours of 5th May 2019. Riyaz Adam, who called himself a friend of ...

POLICE HAVE revealed that a spate of assaults – fortunately, leading only to relatively minor injuries – has been occurring in Rainham, along with other episodes of minor but worrying crime. Members of the public have been asked to help ...

IT WAS A costly party for Kasim Hussain, 18, of Clifford Road, Canning Town – six years in jail, to be precise. It was an even costlier party for his victim, who received serious injuries to his chest and a ...

POLICE OFFICERS have hailed Wednesday’s dawn drugs raids in Tower Hamlets as a good example of Operation Continuum – which is carried out in partnership with Tower Hamlets Council. The new Operation replaces the scheme run by the previous Executive ...

EARLY THIS MORNING, 5th August, police staged raids on ten homes in Tower Hamlets. The operation was conducted by the Gangs Task Force and was part of Operation Continuum. Six men were arrested on suspicion of being part of the ...