Crime

DON’T RENT A ROOM from this man. He is James Bennett, 32 – and he’s now a convicted fraudster and he’s on the run. Bennett carried out his fraud on unsuspecting private tenants from late 2015 to December 2016. He ...

THE YOUNG MAN murdered in Hackney ten days ago has been named by police. Alex Vanderpuye, aged 24, from Hackney, was stabbed at around 4.45pm on Thursday, 7th December and died at the scene. A post mortem has confirmed that ...

A YOUNG woman from the Isle of Dogs has been sentenced to life imprisonment after killing a young Italian man in Canning Town – in a frenzied attack in which he was stabbed 36 times. Hasna Begum, 25, of Byng ...

TWO YOUNG ROBBERS who used a corrosive liquid to attack their victims were each been sentenced to 14 years in prison last week at a sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey. Sadik Kamara, 24, of Booth Road, Newham, and Joshua ...

A YOUNG MAN lost his life in Hackney last Thursday, after being stabbed in Christie Road, at the junction with Cassland Road. He was just 24. An ambulance was called at approximately 4.45pm. Paramedics called the police and the air ...

A NEWHAM man has been sentenced to twelve years in prison for being in possession of a shotgun with intent to endanger life and two rounds of ammunition – while out of prison, on licence, for a previous firearms offence. ...

POLICE HAVE charged a man with the murder of Adetokunbo Jordan Ajobo, known as Jordan Ajobo, in Newham on 8th November. Ajobo was fatally stabbed after being set upon by a gang armed with machetes. Two men, both aged 21, ...

TWO CONSTABLES have been dismissed from the Metropolitan Police following case hearings held on 1st December. •PC Lucas Beach was based at the East Area Command Unit in Romford. He appeared at Basildon Crown Court on 29th June, where he pleaded guilty ...

Six arrests were recently made in Operation Grandbye after police took sustained action to deal with what the potential danger to young women who had been seen hanging around with older men in and around Stratford Shopping Mall. Detective Inspector ...

SIX MEN HAVE been arrested in an operation launched by the Metropolitan Police Sexual Exploitation Team began Operation Grandbye at the start of November in an attempt to safeguard young girls in Newham. The Operation began after concerns grew about ...