Crime

A SECOND teenager has been arrested in connection with the acid attacks carried out in Walthamstow and Tottenham on 2nd November. A 16 year old male was arrested late on Saturday, 4th November on suspicion of Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH) ...

MAN HAS been sentenced to life imprisonment, with a requirement to serve a minimum of 16 years, following his conviction for sexually assaulting and raping a teenager in Leyton’s Jubilee Park. He was also placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register ...

A CORROSIVE LIQUID was used as two fast food delivery drivers were attacked on Thursday, 2nd November by young men trying to steal their mopeds. The attacks took place in Walthamstow and Tottenham.  •The first occurred at approximately 6pm on Thursday, 2nd ...

A MAN LOST his life on The Highway in Shadwell, Tower Hamlets last week. Police have already made four arrests, but they are now appealing for any further witnesses to come forward so they can be sure what happened. The ...

TECHNICALLY, Barry Peacham did not kill Qinguing Rao – but in every other sense he ended her life. Rao was a banker in the City: now she lies in a vegetative state, receiving round the clock care in a specialist ...

RAPIST DESCRIBED by police as a “predatory individual” has been sentenced to twelve years in jail after being convicted of four counts of rape, one charge of false imprisonment, one charge of threats to kill and a further charge of ...

POLICE ARE appealing for help from the public as they investigate the murder of a man in Plashet Park on 15th October. He was found suffering from a stab wound to the chest by emergency services. The victim has now ...

THE MEDIA have recently been reporting the increase in the “county line” method of dealing drugs, whereby young people from the inner cities are used to courier drugs out to county towns so that urban dealers can run the supply ...

STABBINGS AND shootings are cutting down young men in Newham at a rate it is hard to follow. Now police have revealed that an incident which occurred in Plashet Road last Thursday has led to a 31 year old man ...

OFFICERS FROM THE Metropolitan Police Homicide and Major Crime Command have launched a murder investigation after a 20 year old man was fatally stabbed in the chest in Plashet Park on Sunday afternoon. It was just after 4pm when the ...