Crime

A YOUNG MAN from Leyton is in a Young Offenders institution, starting a 14 month sentence handed down at Snaresbrook County Court last week. He had been carrying a hunting knife on the Tube and then resisted arrest. The offences ...

THE BODY OF Mark Smith, 48, was found on 15th February 2018 at a flat in Warren Road, Chingford, E4. A post mortem examination two days later established that Smith had died from multiple injuries. The police went to the ...

POLICE HAVE confirmed that the woman injured in a collision with a motor vehicle near Crossharbour DLR station, E14, died the following day. She has now been named as Charlotte Kenning, 26, from Goole in Humberside. Police and the London ...

TWO MEN robbed a Willliam Hill betting shop in Station Lane, Hornchurch on Tuesday, 14th May. Now police have released CCTV footage in an attempt to identify the suspects. The incident took place at around 9.30pm. The two men demanded ...

THE 61 YEAR OLD man who was assaulted in Plaistow Park last Thursday morning, 30th May, has died. He died in hospital on Sunday, 2nd June, having suffered a serious head injury during the attack. Although formal identification is still ...

HE WAS convicted of raping a young woman in the Spitalfields area of Tower Hamlets last year. And now Jonathan Graden, 29, of Hackney has had to admit to an earlier offence of a similar nature. Graden is currently in ...

A MAN HAS been charged with Grievous Bodily Harm after an assault in Plaistow Park, E13, left a 61 year old man with a serious head injury. The incident took place in broad daylight, with police being called about at ...

HACKNEY POLICE are looking for people who had their phones stolen in or around Old Street and Pitfield Street on 30th or 31st May. A man has been arrested on suspicion of theft of mobile phones in the area, and ...

A MAN WITH A controlling personality finally lost control – and brutally murdered his wife. This is the essence of a longer story which the Old Bailey listened to for ten days – before convicting Muhammad Javed, 59, of Staines ...

TWO TEENAGERS both had lucky escapes when they were injured as a large brawl took place in Globe Road, Bethnal Green, E2 on Friday, 17th May – and police are trying to piece together what happened. Police and the London ...