Crime

A BLACK FORD FOCUS motor vehicle with several occupants drove down Waterloo Road, Newham, and into Wellington Road on 30th May. The vehicle came to a halt in the middle of the road – and one of the passengers waved ...

IT WAS BAD NEWS on Friday, 13th July for three men from Tower Hamlets as they were sentenced for their parts in a ring of thieves who were stealing mobile phones and selling them on in local shops. •Iftehar Ahmed, ...

A POLICE CONSTABLE based in Newham has been given a final written warning by a Misconduct Hearing which took place earlier this month. At the hearing it was alleged that PC Mhamud Hussin’s conduct amounted to a breach of the ...

A NEW COHORT of police officers took part in the traditional passing out parade on 13th July – and almost a quarter of them were from a BAME background. The 172 new officers were congratulated by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida ...

POLICE HAVE released an image of a man they wish to question in connection with an inquiry into a possible insurance fraud. The inquiry is being conducted by detectives from the City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED). ...

TWO MEN from the Isle of Dogs were sentenced last week at Snaresbrook Crown Court after a police investigation into an assault charge uncovered a drug dealing network. A 31 year old man was assaulted in Hackney Road, E2, back ...

THERE WAS A serious assault in Chingford last October – and police have not given up their quest to find their suspect. Detectives undertaking the investigation have now released CCTV footage of a man they wish to question. It was ...

IT HAS BEEN a long and painstaking investigation – but the work of the Metropolitan Police has finally paid off as two further men have been convicted of killing Raja Ali in Dagenham in 2016. The two new convicts are: ...

A MAN WHO committed robberies across East London, as well as carrying out two bomb hoaxes, was sentenced to life imprisonment at Snaresbrook Crown Court last week – with an order that he serve at least seven years. Omar Farooq, ...

BURGLARY WENT wrong – but, even so, Paul Hensley, 57, of Code Street, E1, was given a six year prison sentence. Hensley appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court last Friday, where he was convicted of attempted robbery and possession of an ...