Crime

POLICE ARE APPEALING to the public for help in identifying a woman who was involved in an altercation in Ilford concerning a taxi. The woman was caught on CCTV and police have released a short section of the footage. The ...

POLICE SEARCHING for three suspects who robbed a pensioner in Ilford last summer have now released CCTV footage in the hope that the public can help them identify and find the suspects – before they harm someone else. The theft ...

THREE YOUNG MEN who had been conning vulnerable elderly people appeared at Blackfriars Crow Court just before Christmas – where they were convicted of various offences relating to fraud. All three received prison sentences. The three included Shaheedul Abedin, 20, ...

CONSTRUCTION WORKERS returning to work in Canary Wharf after the Christmas and New Year break discovered the body of a man. It is thought the body had been there for several days. The body was found shortly after 8.30am in ...

A CONVICTION FOR common assault has led to PC Ajay Singh, who had been working with the East Area Command Unit, being dismissed from the Metropolitan Police at a special case hearing just before Christmas. The conviction arose after PC ...

FOUR FATAL STABBINGS occurred in London as 2017 drew to a close and the New Year began. Metropolitan Police officers are appealing to the public for help as they launch four murder investigations to find out why four more young ...

AN 18 YEAR OLD who lost his leg in a stabbing incident has seen his attacker sent to prison for nine years and ten months. The attacker is Ce-jay Furzer, 17, of no fixed abode, who came from the Dagenham ...

TWO MEN WERE stabbed last weekend during a disturbance at the 9Zero bar in Cranbrook, Road, Ilford. The emergency services were called. The London Ambulance Service took one 44 year old man and one 38 year old man to separate ...

A NUMBER OF night-time burglaries took place in Hackney over the summer. With the conviction of Claudius Leroy Francis, 49, a number of them have now been resolved. Francis, of no fixed address, appeared at Wood Green Crown Court on ...

IT WAS JUST around midnight on Saturday, 16th December when an argument broke out in the Vertigo Lounge in Station Lane, Hornchurch. The emergency services attended and found a 33 year old man suffering from head injuries. The injured man ...