Crime

POLICE ARE appealing for help from the public in finding those responsible for stabbing a man in the centre of Stratford on Sunday, 16th July. The victim is still in hospital, with life-changing injuries. Back on that Sundy, a 28 ...

TWO YOUNG MEN were attacked in Roman Road on 25th July. A liquid was thrown at them, which the emergency services helped them wash off at the scene before they were taken to hospital for further treatment. Rahad Hussain, 23, ...

A HACKNEY MAN who escaped from police custody has been found – and sentenced to ten weeks in prison for the offence. Kevin Brooker, 32, was found and arrested for failing to appear in Court to answer charges relating to ...

A man who failed to appear in court to answer charges of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs was arrested – but managed to escape from Homerton Hospital Accident & Emergency Department. He is thought to be at ...

YOU WON’T be seeing Sydney Mimer, 69, around Oban Street E14 any longer. This week he was sentenced to 18 years and two months in prison for multiple offences against a young girl, committed around a decade ago but which ...

The following arrests and charges have been made over the last few days in connection with “acid attacks” – the use of noxious liquids to disarm victims to facilitate robbery. A 15 year old boy was arrested on 14th July at an ...

ROMAN ROAD was the latest location of an attack on members of the public in which a liquid was used as a weapon. Police are appealing for witnesses. Police officers were alerted to the incident when they were flagged down ...

KNOCKING A man down some stairs at a hotel on Shoreditch High Street has landed 27 year old Lewis Beard with a 23 week prison sentence. Beard was also ordered to pay £7,800 in compensation and £650 in court costs. ...

A TEENAGER was stabbed in Whitechapel on Friday, 14th July – and police are appealing to members of the public who were in the area at the time to come forward. Police and the London Ambulance Service were called to Brick Lane ...

A MAN WAS stabbed to death in Romford on 11th July. He was later named as Liam Alan Harman, aged 28. Now police have made two arrests as they continue to search for the murderer. The first arrest was of ...