Crime

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 ...

DETECTIVES moved quickly to make an arrest after an 18 year old woman was sexually assaulted in Dagenham on 6th September. The incident occurred on the footbridge between Reede Road and Blackbourne Road, near Pondfield Park. The following day, Adef ...

JUST TWO COUNTS of selling or transferring a firearm, two counts of transferring ammunition, two counts of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life and two counts of transferring ammunition led to Lennie St Clare Walters, 47, being sentenced ...