Crime

LAST NOVEMBER, two friends set off for a pizza. Only one of them returned home. While they were out, 17 year old college student Duran Kajima was stabbed and later died. Now his killer has been convicted of manslaughter. It ...

LAST MONTH Richard Laurent was found guilty of manslaughter. Last week he appeared at Woolwich Crown Court and received a prison sentence of nine years, together with a three year extension to the sentence – a total of twelve years ...

HOMICIDE AND Major Crime Command are investigating an incident which occurred in East Ham on Monday, 26th June – which left a man dead from stab wounds. Just after 8pm the emergency services received reports that there had been a ...

THREE MEN in their late twenties appeared at Thames Magistrates Court yesterday, 27th June, and were charged with murdering Brenton Roper in Bow on 13th May. Mr Roper died of gunshot wounds at the scene of the crime, in Eagling ...

SATURDAY, 24th June a bus collided with a car in Barking. The incident occurred at approximately 4.45pm in Upney Lane, close to Upney Tube station. Police, the Fire Brigade and the London Ambulance Service all attended. A 58 year old ...

LAST WEEK SAW five nightime break-ins in homes in Hackney – which look like they were carried out by the same person. Fortunately, no one was physically injured during any of the incidents – but many of the victims have ...

CONOR BOLGER is just 15 years old. Normally he lives in Buxton, up in Derbyshire – but he has not been seen since 7th June. Conor has strong links to Hackney, and some associates report having seen him there since ...

POLICE ARE appealing for help in identifying two men in connection with a serious assault which took place in Poplar in February. The suspects have been at large for the last four months. The assault took place at in the ...

NIREN PATEL, 38, has been sentenced to a total of 12 months in prison, after pleading guilty to two counts of fraud by abuse of a position of trust, possession with intent to supply a Class B drug and five ...

A MAN WHO stabbed a plain clothes police officer in an alleyway off the Bow Road and assaulted a member of the public has been jailed for twelve years – with a further two years on extended licence. Andrew Beadie ...