Crime

ROBBERIES AND THEFTS are on the increase (according to the Office for National Statistics) – and the news has prompted the company Locksmith to see how individual London boroughs are affected. Top of the list is Newham, in sixth place with ...

DETECTIVES conducting a murder hunt following the killing of Daniel Frederick have made a fresh appeal to the public for information – as they make their first arrest. Frederick, 34, was found in the evening of 8th January, outside Burns ...

POLICE ARE looking for Parminder Thindh, 36, who is described as 5ft 8ins tall and of medium build. They want to speak to him in connection with a sexual assault which took place on a bus in Manor Park, Newham, ...

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 ...