Crime

A MAN IN his late 20s was seriously injured in an attack which took place at the junction of Hackney Road and The Oval at approximately 11pm on Saturday, 9th September. Police are now appealing for assistance from the public ...

POLICE HAVE now released CCTV footage showing a man they wish to interview in connection with an incident in Bethnal Green on 19th July. At just after midday a 15 year old girl was walking along Bethnal Green Road. As ...

JOHN TOMLIN of Colman Road, Canning Town was arrested in early August and charged with two counts of committing grievous bodily harm with intent. The charges arose out of an incident on 21st June, when two cousins were sat in ...

TWO YOUNG MEN who carried out violent robberies, throwing ammonia in the faces of their female victims, have been convicted after appearing at Wood Green Crown Court. The trial began on 2nd October and ended on Tuesday this week. Sadik ...

WHAT IS happening to Tower Hamlets? to East London? How does it happen that in one night a young woman can be subjected to three apparently unconnected sexual assaults on the streets of Tower Hamlets in the space of an ...

SABIRE SHARIFE’s attack on a woman in Hackney was no spontaneous act. It was around 3.30am on 9th April when he saw her in Well Street, Hackney. He followed her. She got onto a bus. He followed her, sitting near ...

THIS WEEK Papis Cante, 36, of St John’s Court, Queen’s Drive, Hackney was brought to Wood Green Crown Court – and pleaded guilty to two counts of rape, relating to events which occurred over the summer. The first rape occurred ...

A GANG OF FOUR petty but persistent criminals were sent to prison last week – clocking up long sentences for the large number of robberies they had carried out in convenience stores and petrol stations in and around Tower Hamlets. ...

TWO YOUNG MEN from Newham have been locked up for over eleven years between them following their conviction for multiple drug offences. The pair – Phil Kamulete, 22, of Henniker Point and Romaro Watson, 22, of Disraeli Road – were ...

MAN WAS LEFT critically injured after a collision on Green Lane, at the junction with Castle Lane and Greenway, on 6th September. The incident occurred just before 11.30am. The London Ambulance Service was the first emergency team to respond, and ...