Crime

HOW DID Israel Ogunsola die? There are two versions of that story – and both were put forward during a three week trial last month at the Old Bailey.. The police story was that two of their officers were patrolling ...

DANIEL FREDERICK, 34, was an innocent man who lived in Hackney. His girlfriend was pregnant, and on 8th January this year he went to the hospital with her before heading home to meet up with a friend – the two ...

JAIL SENTENCES OF 13 years and 11 years were handed down to two young men from Tower Hamlets at Snaresbrook Crown Court last month after they were found guilty of rape and related charges at a hearing in September. The ...

THE FAMILY trusted Hafiz Azizur Rehman Pirzada, 76, of Laughton Road, Northolt, when they appointed him to teach their two girls about the Quran. He did not live up to that trust – and now, belatedly, he will pay the ...

HE WAS DESCRIBED as the ringleader of an acid attack at a shop in Mare Street Hackney – and last month Peter Brown, 29, of Hope Avenue, Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex, was sentenced to ten years in prison for his crimes. The ...

A COLD-HEARTED woman who set her former lover up to be killed by another man – and then filmed the fatal attack and posted it on social media – has been handed a substantial prison sentence. Fatima Khan, 21, of ...

IN MARCH, Rowmando Lewis (28) murdered Tyrone Silcott (41) on Towpath Lane, E9, on the Hackney side of its border with Tower Hamlets. Last month, Lewis was jailed for life at Snaresbrook Crown Court, with an Order that he serve ...

EIGHT ARRESTS were made across East London last month as police fighting moped-riding mobile phone thieves conducted morning raids in Tower Hamlets, Newham and Havering. The raids took place as part of Operation Venice, run by the Metropolitan Police together ...

POLICE HAVE revealed that a woman who was involved in a collision with a bicycle in Hackney has since died. The incident occurred on 28th August on Kingsland High Street, E8. The woman, 56, was a pedestrian. She was trying ...

TWO YOUNG MEN from East London were jailed last month after being found guilty of a series of robberies – and injuring their victims, some very seriously, with knives and acid. The third member of this violent gang was from ...