Crime

POLICE HAVE released a photo of a man they wish to find and question in connection with a number of thefts – possibly around 20 – on London buses in and around Newham. The man has been named as Gigi ...

A CAREFULLY co-ordinated raid on premises in Sewardstone Road, Chingford, last month saw dogs and puppies being seized – together with a firearm, combat knives and stolen plant machinery. The operation, which was carried out to execute a search warrant, ...

A WOMAN who survived four months of physical abuse and mental torture at the hands of her partner – and who bravely reported his behaviour to police – has now had the comfort of seeing him jailed for 19 years. ...

A CHANCE MEETING sent Maria Rawlings, 45, to her death – and sent her murderer, Valentin Lazar, 21, to prison for over 20 years. The two met on a bus at just after 11pm on 3rd May last year. They ...

THE STORY began on 17th September 2020, when police had some business premises in Hackney, E9, under surveillance. They saw a man put a brown paper bag in the boot of a car. Armed police followed the car, which drove ...

A MAN WAS arrested after police found cannabis which could have been sold on the streets for an estimated £300,000, together with various Class B drugs in three industrial units in New Road, Rainham. The massive haul was found after ...

IT TOOK just over four years, but at last two East London men have been sent to prison for sexual offences against a child. The men were convicted after a four day trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court last November and ...

IT WAS, in some senses, an easy investigation for the Metropolitan Police. Once they gained access to their suspect’s phone, they found over 2,000 WhatsApp messages in which the suspect and his accomplice planned a murder. The story began on ...

ONE MAN FROM Newham and another from Bow were members of a crime gang jailed last month after a complex police investigation into the supply of firearms and ammunition in East London and Essex. The investigation took hundreds of hours ...

THE MURDER OF John Avers, 47, has been described by a police officer who worked on the investigation as “barbaric”. The evidence before the court exposed two heartless murderers – and the seedy side of drug trafficking in the heart ...