Crime

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 ...

AN ILFORD MAN was arrested on 2nd January and charged with the murder of Raja Ali, who lost his life on 25th September 2016, at Braintree Road in Dagenham. The man charged is Navarda Rhooms, 26, of Eton Road, Ilford.  ...

A GANG OF three con artists stage a distraction theft in the Natwest Bank on East Street, Barking in September – and police are trying to identify and locate the suspects. It was around noon on 16th September 2017 when ...

THERE WAS TRAGEDY in Barking Road, Newham, at 2pm this afternoon as a woman, 67, was knocked over by a lorry. The emergency services attended and she was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman’s next of kin have been ...

THE METROPOLITAN POLICE have confirmed that they will continue to prioritise tackling knife crime over the next year. Deputy Commissioner Sir Craig Mackey renewed this pledge after four young men were stabbed to death over the New Year. The Deputy ...

A WOMAN HAS died after being stabbed in Ilford – and a man from Newham has been arrested in connection with the incident. The London Ambulance Service (LAS) received reports just after 7pm on Wednesday, 3rd January that a woman ...

TWO 16 YEAR OLDS were hospitalised with gunshot wounds on 29th December after a gunman opened fire on a fast food restaurant in Plaistow. The incident occurred in Terrace Road, just after 8.30pm. The emergency services were called, with both ...

POLICE ARE reviewing CCTV footage and following up other leads in their investigation into an acid attack which took place just after Christmas near the South Quay DLR Station. It was just before 7pm on Wednesday, 27th December when someone ...