Crime

POLICE EXECUTED a number of search warrants in Hackney last month – as a result of which seven people were arrested. A further two people – a male, 23, and a female, 24 – were taken into custody. The seven ...

A SERIES OF violent actions in Barking led to Brandon Wallace being jailed last month. He had threatened a woman in an incident of domestic violence – and went on to spit at police trying to arrest him. Officers from ...

POLICE ARE traying to identify and locate the man in this picture, taken from CCTV after an incident last year on a W15 bus. The incident occurred at around 4.40pm on Wednesday, 16th October. A teenage girl got on to ...

THE BURGLARY was violent. Three, or maybe four, young men went into the home of an elderly couple via the back door. Intent on finding money, they set out to terrify the couple until they got it. The attack took ...

THE NUMBER of fatal road incidents may be down because locked down London is seeing less traffic, but police are still seeking help from the public as they investigate accidents in which people have died. The emergency services were called ...

POLICE ARE asking for anyone who saw a collision between a Mercedes motor vehicle and a motorbike which took place just before 8.30am on Friday, 17th April in Pembury Road, London E5. Police and the London Ambulance Service came to ...

IT IS A YEAR since Steven Brown was found, dying from a stab wound, in a Hackney street. Now his daughter has added her voice to a police appeal for someone to come forward and help them find whoever killed ...

FOYSOL HUSSAIN, a PC attached to the East Area Command Unit, was found guilty of gross misconduct on 15th April after a two day telephone hearing. It was alleged that: •on 18th February 2019 PC Hussain had been required to ...

DETECTIVES ARE appealing to the public to help them identify and find a man they wish to speak to in connection with an attempted rape which took place early in the morning of Saturday, 7th March in Hoxton Street. STORY ...

OFFICIAL FIGURES for England and Wales show that knife crime in England and Wales for 2019 showed a 7% increase on 2018 – creating a record high of 45,627 offences. The figures were released today by the Office of National ...