Crime

BETHNAL GREEN Road was the scene of a hit and run collision on 20th April – and police have been unable to find the driver, who did not stop at the scene of the accident. The incident took place just ...

A FIFTH PERSON has been charged in connection with the murder of Daniel Frederick of Hackney. The new suspect is a 17 year old male, who was charged on 9th May and appeared at the Old Bailey on 10th May. ...

A ROMFORD man was critically injured when an argument ended in a case of assault on 8th May. The incident took place just before 7.30pm at the Aldeman public house on Chippenham Road in Romford. The victim, a 51 year ...

CEDRIC KIYAGO sent Liam Harman a text message, calling him “a dead man”. Then he murdered him. And now Kiyago is beginning a life sentence. Harman, 28, from Harold Hill, was found in the communal area of a block of ...

A MAN HAS been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering Alfred Purcell, 34, in Newham last summer. The trial of Keith Nelson, 51, of Mountsfield Road, E6, began on 25th April at the Old Bailey. He was convicted on 3rd ...

POLICE HAVE praised a group of children for bravely speaking up and helping to ensure that a serial sex offender who targeted children and teenagers was stopped in his tracks – and locked up. The offender is Peter Michael Fisher, ...

IT WAS AN open and shut case when PC Sarah Medlock, who had been working in the East Area Command Unit (which covers Redbridge, Havering and Barking & Dagenham), appeared before a Metropolitan Police disciplinary hearing. It was alleged that ...

A MAN HAS been sentenced to life imprisonment for attacking a woman in Rectory Road, Hackney. He is Sabir Sharife, 32, who is of no fixed abode but from the Hackney area. The Judge ordered that he should serve a ...

CRIME IN LONDON went up 6.4% last year (April 2016 to March 2017) compared with the year before (April 2017 to March 2018) – that’s from 777,458 to 827,225. The rise happened as the Government cut funding for policing in ...

A MAN who was convicted last month of the manslaughter of Titu Miah in Newham has appeared at the Old Bailey – where he was sentenced to serve 14 years in prison. The killer, Emdadul Islam, 23, had been found ...