Crime

TOWER HAMLETS came out on top at the annual Metropolitan Police Volunteer Police Cadets (VPC) awards last week. The borough’s VPC Co-ordinator Steve Austin was named Co-ordinator of the year. Steve received his award from The Lord-Lieutenant of London, Sir ...

THE MURDER OF Liam Harman, 28, has been solved – with the conviction of Cedric Kiyago, 21, who was found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey last week. He will return to the Court on 4th May for sentencing. ...

A DAGENHAM WOMAN stole over £10,000 from a vulnerable man who thought she was helping him through the kindness of her heart. The money was taken in a series of calculating cons – but the guilty woman saved her best ...

THE MAN WHO threw acid over two cousins sat in a car in Beckton has been sent to jail for 16 years for each offence – with a further four years extended licence. The jail terms are to be served ...

HAVE YOU SEEN a man hanging round Hoxton – in the Wimbourne Street and Shaftesbury Street area? A woman has been stabbed in a lift in a Hoxton block – and police believe the suspect may have been hanging round ...

A Hackney man was found in possession of cannabis and an offensive weapon (a knife) on 11th April – and just two days later he was in Court, pleading guilty. He has been remanded in custody, and within a month ...

IT’S NOT CLEAR why Peter Brown, 29, of Stanford-Le-Hope thought it was a good idea to wave an imitation firearm at a group of youngsters out on Wellington Road, Newham – but it won him a ten year, nine month ...

POLICE NEED help finding a second man who was involved in an unprovoked attack in Ilford last November. A suspect will be on trial next week – and police are still looking for his accomplice. The assault occurred just after ...

AN EAST LONDON teenager died last night after being stabbed in Forest Gate, Newham. He is thought to have been just 18 years old. This morning, police cordons were still up around the scene. The emergency services received a call ...

HE WAS IN A position of trust as a Scout Leader, but Antony Allen betrayed that trust – and now he has been sentenced to 11 years in jail after being convicted of a series of sexual offences against minors. ...