Crime

IN THE EARLY HOURS of Monday, 29th May the London Fire Brigade dealt with a vehicle which had caught fire in a car park in Castleton Road, Ilford. Just before 6am, the firefighters called the police as a body had ...

PC MILADUR KHAN, 30, who was attached to the East Area Command Unit, is today beginning a six month prison sentence after admitting perverting the course of justice at a hearing on 2nd May at Southwark Crown Court. The sentence was ...

IT ONLY COMES round once every four years, but 29th February last year was an unlucky day for a 69 year old man in Upton Park. When he opened his front door, he found a woman, who said she was ...

A CAR was stolen from Leyton on 16th May – but this was no ordinary car theft. A six year old girl was in the car when it was taken, and police had to mount an immediate operation to try ...

ARE appealing for witnesses to a fatal collision which took place at approximately 2pm on Saturday, 27th May, on the A10 Great Cambridge Road in Edmonton N9. A motorcyclist suffered head injuries after he had been in a collision with ...

LAST NOVEMBER an off-duty plain clothes police officer was stabbed in an alleyway near the Bow Bells pub in Bow Road. On Friday, 26th May, Andrew Beadie was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent in carrying out that ...

A COLD, CALCULATING, violent predator is behind bars this weekend, after smart detective work tracked him down and found the evidence to secure a conviction in court. Last October police were speaking to a vulnerable 15 year old girl who ...

FOUR MEN FROM East London have today (Thursday, 25th May) been charged with offences under the Terrorism Act. They were arrested on Wednesday, 17th May following a counter-terrorism investigation. They have been remanded in custody and will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on ...

A MAN WHO attacked a pregnant woman in a supermarket car park last August, kicking her in the stomach and hitting her husband with a wine bottle, has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison after he admitted racially-aggravated ...

A MAN HAS BEEN stabbed to death in Bow – just days after the funeral of Syed Jamanoor Islam, who was stabbed to death in Mile End, and after a series of stabbing incidents across London. Police were called to ...