Crime

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 ...

POLICE HAVE NAMED a man they wish to speak to in connection with a sexual assault which took place on a 243 bus on Sunday, 31st May. He is David O’Brien, 51. The offence occurred as the bus made its ...

IT WAS January this year when Czeslaw Swiatkowski, 67, was murdered in Clapton. At the end of July, Dawid Wycik, 28, of no fixed abode, was found guilty of the murder – and sentence to prison, with a minimum tariff ...

MYSTERY SURROUNDS a street fight which broke out in Ilford late on Thursday night, 30th July, among a crowd of people who had been attending an Eid celebration. Despite calls on the public to celebrate the festival at home, at ...