Crime

IT TOOK Daniel Osborne a couple of minutes to kill Makram Ali and injure several bystanders. It took nine days to try him for murder and attempted murder. It took the jury less than an hour to convict him. Osborne ...

A POLICE CONSTABLE attached to the East Area Command has been dismissed from the Metropolitan Police after a two-day misconduct hearing – which she did not attend. The Chair of the hearing found that one of charge of gross misconduct ...

POLICE ARE beginning to piece together the events on Sunday evening that led to the death of a man on the George Downing Estate, off Cazenove Road in Stoke Newington, Hackney. The victim has now been formally identified and named ...

POLICE ARE DETERMINED to solve the murder of Daniel Frederick. This week they have seen one suspect charged, appear in court – and be held in custody. Now, as they build their case, they are trying to identify two further ...

TWO YOUNG MEN were convicted last October of carrying out robberies in Hackney – and using corrosive substances in the process. They were each sentenced, last December, to 14 years in prison. Sadik Kamara and Joshua Jordan were not alone ...

DETECTIVES have charged a man with the murder of Daniel Frederick, Daniel died on 8th January, in Shakespeare Walk, Hackney. He was found on the street, having been stabbed – and died shortly after reaching hospital. On Tuesday, 30th January ...

ANOTHER YOUNG man has lost his life in Hackney – stabbed to death in the streets. It began when the emergency services were called just after 11.30pm on Sunday, 28th January. An hour later, another stab victim was dead. The ...

POLICE WHO ARE investigating a shooting in Newham are trying to identify or find a silver Lexus motor vehicle, registration number AY52 CKD. They believe the men who carried out the shooting may have travelled to and from the scene ...

POLICE ARE trying to get to the bottom of an armed altercation which took place in Butchers Road, Canning Town at the end of last year – much of which was caught on CCTV.  It all began at around 3.30am ...

A CRUEL COURIER CON has seen an elderly man lose over £2,500. The con began on 17th November last year when a man in his 80s, who lives in Bermondsey, received a phone call from someone claiming to be Hammersmith ...