Crime

THREE MEN were stars in a local video just after Christmas – but not intentionally so. The men are the three suspects, seen in the below CCTV footage, whom police would like to interview in connection with a robbery and ...

POLICE SEARCHING for a man in connection with a sexual assault in Tower Hamlets have now released an image of the man they wish to speak to. The assault took place at approximately 5pm on 29th August (Bank Holiday Monday) ...

NEWHAM POLICE are still trying to trace Shahidul Islam, 22, so that they can speak to him about a kidnap, assault and robbery which took place last year. On 11th March 2016 a 19 year old man was kidnapped from Tollgate ...

POLICE ARE appealing for help in finding two men who are wanted for questioning in connection with a burglary. The incident took place at Next on Gallows Corner by the Southend Arterial Road at around 4am-5am on 14th December. Two ...

HUSEYIN AKKOYUN (47, above) has been found guilty of murdering Mehmet Degerli (49) in Hackney. The two men had been friends – but Akkoyun discovered that Degerli had met up with Akkoyun’s ex-wife and turned violent. Degerli (right) had met ...

ANDREW BEADIE, 20, of Basildon will appear in Court in April to answer charges of attempted murder. The charge arises out of an incident last November when an undercover police officer was attacked in an alleyway in Bow. A second ...

A TRIP TO BUY A Christmas tree turned out to be an expensive outing for one East London woman. She left her handbag on the driver’s seat of her car as she loaded the tree into the boot. Once the ...

POLICE SERGEANT Weeden’s courage has apprehended a street robbery suspect in Hackney. Sergeant Weeden was patrolling along Stoke Newington High Street near the junction with Tyson Street, N16, just after 5.30pm on Wednesday, 11th January. She saw a man conducting ...

A BURDETT ROAD shop owner has been fined £10,000 for possessing illegal cigarettes – and was ordered to pay Tower Hamlets Council’s legal costs too, estimated at around £3,000. The fine came after the Council prosecuted Oho LT, the company ...

MIDWIFE LAURA MacNeil, 24, was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for two years, at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 5th January. She had previously pleaded guilty to 27 counts of theft of morphine, a Class A drug, at Barkingside ...