Crime

POLICE HAVE issued an appeal for witnesses to come forward after a fight in Broad Oak Close, E4, ended with three men being stabbed. The fight occurred around 5am on the morning of Friday, 27th March. The police were called ...

A MAN WHO appeared in court last Friday, 3rd April, to answer a charge that he murdered a woman in Newham has been named as Kieran Rifat, 21, of Grange Road, Plaistow. He was remanded in custody. It was just ...

A MAN has been jailed for two years and four months for a burglary committed in Hackney. The man convicted has been named as Khair Watson, 37, of no fixed address.  He committed a burglary on 3rd January this year, ...

A TOWER HAMLETS resident has been jailed for three and a half years for committing a burglary. He was also disqualified from driving for three years and will be required to take an extended driving test before he can obtain ...

THE POLICE have confirmed that a number of arrests took place at the end of last month under the umbrella of Operation Sceptre, which seeks to tackle violent crime across the UK. The biggest breakthroughs came in Hackney, with the ...

HE WAS JAILED for attempted rape last month – and now his name has been revealed. The offence took place in Hackney. Sean Manning, 42, of no fixed abode, was convicted at Wood Green Crown Court of committing attempted rape ...

POLICE HAVE now charged a suspect with murder, in connection with the death of a 57 year old woman in Hackney on 15th or 16th March. Now they are calling for witnesses to come forward, as their investigations continue. The ...

A man who attacked his wife with a hammer while she slept and who was convicted of attempted murder in January returned to Court last week. He was sentenced to ten years in jail. The would-be murderer is Vladislav Ravinsky, ...

Six arrests have been made in connection with the murder of 16-year-old Shanur Ahmed in Newham Five teenage boys and one man, all from Newham, were arrested on suspicion of murder following warrants carried out on the morning of Friday, ...

A MAN FROM the Clapton area of Hackney has been sent to prison for life after shooting at police officers – who had come to his house to arrest him in connection with an incident of armed car-jacking. No officer ...