Crime

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 ...

POLICE BELIEVE that a woman who died in Waltham Forest may have been the victim of a domestic dispute. They have arrested a man, 54, on suspicion of murder. The emergency services were called out just before noon today, Tuesday, ...

DANIEL HORTON, 29, of no fixed abode appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court today – Saturday, 22nd February. Horton was arrested at the Regent’s Park Mosque on Thursday, 20th February after an incident during which the muezzin Raafat Maglad, 70, was ...

A COLLISION between a female pedestrian and a car has left the pedestrian in hospital – with serious injuries. The collision took place just after 9am on Monday, 17th February, on Commercial Road. The London Ambulance Service took the pedestrian ...

POLICE HAVE RELEASED a CCTV image of a man they wish to interview after a man was stabbed outside Hackney Downs Overground station on Dalston Lane. The incident occurred on Friday, 24th January. The victim, a 19 year old man, ...

A TEN YEAR OLD BOY is in an East London hospital with serious head injuries after a collision in Barking Road, E6, near Emerald Avenue. The collision occurred just before 8pm on Thursday, 13th February – between a vehicle and ...

THE SENTENCE was 13 years’ imprisonment when Mark Hosang, 49, of Paragon Road, Hackney returned to the Old Bailey on 31st January. The sentence comprised ten years in jail and an extended licence period of three years and has recently ...

A MASSIVE police investigation has led to the conviction and sentencing of Dr Manish Shah, 50, of Brunel Close, Romford for sexually assaulting women patients. The offences were carried out while Dr Shah was working as a GP at the ...