Crime

A WOMAN WHO was found fatally stabbed in Norfolk Road, Ilford on 3rd January has been named. She is Elizabeta Lacatusu, 44, a Romanian national who was living in Ilford. Ms Lacatusu was formally identified on 9th January. Genu Armeanu, ...

IT WAS JUST before 6pm on Monday, 8th January when the emergency services were called out to Shakespeare Walk, N16 – to deal with a man who had been assaulted. When they arrived, they found the victim had been stabbed. ...

POLICE ARE LOOKING for two men who committed a serious assault outside popular East London venue the Troxy in Commercial Road on 3rd December. To help the hunt, CCTV footage has just been released. It was approximately 3am when Gordon ...

TWO MEN HAVE now been charged with the murder of Raja Ali, who was killed in September 2016. The second man to be charged is Haziq Raza, 24, of Meath Road, Ilford. Navarda Rhooms was charged with murder on 2nd ...

A SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD boy has admitted conducting a spree of acid attacks around East and North London on 13th July last year. Derryck John, of Thornton Heath in South London, came clean at Wood Green Crown Court on 8th ...

CLEMUTH ROBERTS, 58, died just over a year ago, in December 2016. He was involved in a fight in Stanthorpe Road, Dagenham. The emergency services were called, and when they arrived, they found Roberts seriously injured. Roberts died, at the ...

ONE WEEK AFTER New Year’s Eve, Newham police officers were out on the streets – trying to jog memories as they investigated the murder of Taofeek Lamidi, who was stabbed in Memorial Avenue. As well as talking to members of ...

LONDON MAYOR Sadiq Khan has responded to the New Year stabbings across London by reminding schools that he has offered to supply them with “knife wands” – metal detectors which help schools check that pupils are not bringing knives onto ...

A MAN HAS BEEN charged with the murder of a woman in Ilford on 3rd January. The 44 year old woman was found in Norfolk Road, Ilford, that evening – suffering from serious stab wounds. She died at the scene. ...

OFFICERS will return to Memorial Avenue, West Ham on Sunday, 7th January – a week after a young man lost his life in one of the four fatal stabbings which happened in London around New Year’s Eve. The murdered man ...