Crime

THE STREETS OF Dagenham are a tiny bit safer after police found a shotgun and ammunition in a property in Goresbrook Road – and four people linked with the weapon have received prison sentences. The operation which led to the ...

A VIOLENT and vicious attack was carried out on 21st December 2017 on an 18 year old woman in a shop on Cranbrook Road, Ilford. Police have been hunting the attacker and are now appealing to the public for help. ...

POLICE HAVE this evening (6th February) named the Barking teenager who died on Saturday, 3rd February in Abbey Road, Barking. The stabbing was reported to police just after 10pm on the Saturday, with the victim being formally pronounced dead just ...

IT TOOK OVER A YEAR, but Ben Harper has finally been sentenced for the manslaughter of Clemuth Roberts in Dagenham back on 19th December 2016. Harper appeared for sentencing at the Old Bailey on Monday, 5th February. As well as ...

A MAN HAS BEEN charged with the murder of Seyed Khan, whose body was found in a cemetery in Ilford on 1st February. Mr Khan was formally identified today, 5th February. Mr Khan lived in Thamesmead – but worked in ...

A LOCAL CLOTHES RETAILER was sat in his parked car in Ford Close, Bow, E3 at 5.30pm on Monday, 15th January – when two men, wearing balaclavas, robbed him. The victim, 24, was dragged out of his car. One of ...

A MURDER HUNT is underway in Barking, after a 19 year old male was stabbed in Abbey Road, Barking. Police and the Ambulance Service were called just after 10pm on Saturday, 3rd February. Despite receiving emergency treatment, the teenager could ...

ONE WEEK AFTER Yaya Mbye, 26, was found fatally wounded on the George Downing Estate off Cazenove Road in Stoke Newington, police returned to the scene to try to jog local memories and collect more information about what happened that ...

AT MIDDAY ON 1st February the body of a man was found in an Ilford cemetery. He was found by police who were looking for Seyed Khan, 49. Mr Khan had not been seen since he left his home in ...

REKER AHMED left Iraq because it was dangerous – and came to leafy Croydon for safety. In Croydon, he was violently attacked by a crowd of racists while he was waiting at a bus stop. They nearly killed him. Police ...