Crime

TWO WOMEN – one from Tower Hamlets and one from Ilford – pleaded guilty to charges relating to escaped prisoners when they appeared at Blackfriars Crown Court last week. Kelly Baker, 22, of Friars Close, Ilford, pleaded guilty to a ...

LONDON’S SMALL BUSINESSES are increasingly being targeted by online criminals who are trying to exploit weaknesses in their IT systems. Now the Metropolitan Police are trying to help those businesses protect themselves. The London Mayor and Metropolitan Police set up ...

HACKNEY POLICE are escalating their attempts to find a suspect in connection with two separate sex attacks in Hackney which took place in May. •The case has now featured on BBC1’s Crimewatch programme, which broadcast CCTV footage of one of ...

STEPNEY man, Shamim Ahmed (24), appeared at the Old Bailey on 10th May and admitted preparing for acts of terrorism. He returned to the Old Bailey on 14th June – and was sentenced to six years in prison. •Full story: ...

LESS THAN THREE weeks after a fatal collision involving a motorcyle on the A10 Great Cambridge Road in Edmonton N9, there has been – a second fatal collision involving a motorcyle on the A10 Great Cambridge Road in Edmonton N9. ...

SHAHIDUL ISLAM of Covelees Wall, E6, is only 23 years of age – but the rest of his 20s will be spent in jail after he was convicted on one count of kidnap and another of robbery. The kidnap took ...

DETECTIVES investigating the London Bridge terrorist attack have thanked the public for coming forward with information about the three pink knives used by the attackers to stab innocent victims. Police now believe they have identified where the terrorists obtained these weapons. ...

STEPHEN WEBB, 57, of Weston Green, Dagenham, was convicted last week at Snaresbrook Crown Court of one count of a rape of a child under 16 and four counts of indecent sexual assault. The verdicts came after Webb had pleaded ...

Police believe an Asian man walking his dog near the Greenway, E6, could have vital information which could help find a vicious thug who broke the jaw of an 81 year old man last Thursday. Samuel Cooper went out to ...

AFTER A three month spree of robbery and violence across Hackney, which included threatening children, Marvin Melvin-Browne is beginning a six year prison sentence.   Melvin-Browne committed robberies and attempted robberies between 14th November 2016 and 21st January 2017. He ...