THE NATIONAL Crime Agency (NCA) has released figures which show that the incidence of modern slavery and human trafficking (MSHT) in the UK is on the up. NCA figures how that there are currently over 300 live policing operations falling ...

POLICE INVESTIGATING the death of Joshua Bwalya in Barking have issued a new appeal. They are very keen to speak to anyone who saw a group of youths in the area on the evening of Joshua’s death. Police were called ...

TOMLIN appeared at Southwark Crown Court on 8th August to answer two charges of committing grievous bodily harm with intent. The charges arise out of an incident on 21st June, when a man threw a corrosive liquid over two people ...

THE UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has admitted that the number of eggs imported into the UK from farms involved in the “toxic eggs” scare is 700,000. Nonetheless, they say that “it is very unlikely that there is any risk ...

A PARTY ENDED in disaster on 23rd July, with one man suffering a stab wound and two men suffering gunshot wounds. Police are now appealing to the public for help. The party took place at a venue on an industrial ...

AS AUGUST BEGAN, a group of thugs have been staging knife-point robberies at various sites along East London’s River Lea. Crimes have occurred in Hackney, Tottenham and Waltham Forest – and Detective Inspector Paul Ridley of Hackney CID is co-ordinating ...

Lying about a vehicle collision in Tower Hamlets landed PC Miladur Khan with a six months jailed sentence. PC Khan claimed he had been driving one of the vehicles – in order to protect his younger brother. PC Khan began ...

A SERIES OF petty offences has landed Nathan Forsythe, 35, in jail. He began his latest spree by gaining a reputation as an “aggressive beggar” in Barking and Ilford town centres – and ended by assaulting a police officer. On ...

NERYS GARRETT from Ilford is just 15 years old – and she has been missing for nearly two months. Nerys is described as white, 5ft 5ins tall, of slim build, with long brown hair and pierced ears. Nerys was last ...

POLICE WERE called out in the early hours of Wednesday, 2nd August. There were reports that there had been a stabbing at Movers Lane in Barking, at the junction with Ripple Road. When the police arrived they found a young man ...