POLICE ARE CONTINUING to appeal for witnesses to help them piece together how Abdul Mayanja lost his life. The 19 year old was shot in Well Street, Hackney, at the end of August and then died in hospital. A week ...

WERE YOU IN or near Sussex Road, E6, just before 7pm on Sunday, 27th August? If so, did you see three thugs attack a frail, 82 year old man and rob him of his personal jewellery? One of the thugs ...

AN EAST LONDON man who kidnapped a woman and kept her tied up in the boot of his car was sentenced to just 15 months in prison when he appeared for sentencing at Snaresbrook Crown Court last week. The woman ...

A BOW MAN has been sent to jail for 14 years after being found guilty of two counts of rape and one charge of supplying a Class A drug. Amos Mbonu, 48, of Arrow Road, E3, was convicted at Blackfriars ...

IT WAS JUST after last Christmas that Paul Hugh Johnson, 54, of Clarence Road, Canning Town assaulted a 39 year old man at Clinton Road, Newham – in accommodation which they were sharing at the time. At around 10.30pm on ...

Emdad Rahman meets the legendary Judoka Brian Jacks. AS A CHILD Brian Jacks was very sick, and this prevented him from taking part in sports or even running around the playground. At the age of nine doctors discovered he’d been ...

HAVE charged Ian Anthony Rook, of no fixed address, with grievous bodily harm and possession of a lethal weapon. This follows an incident on Sunday evening, when Dr Nasser Kurdy was stabbed outside Altrincham and Hale Muslim Association. Dr Kurdy, ...

The ultra-right wing English Defence League (EDL) called a demonstration in Chelmsford today, Sunday, 24th September – but the protest was over before it began. The extremists had announced they were going to protest about gangs grooming under-age girls, terrorism ...

JACK O’BRIEN is starting a long prison sentence following his conviction at the start of this month of attempted robbery – an incident which ended with him endangering the public as he tried to make a getaway from police. It ...

SIX PEOPLE were reported to have been injured in Stratford on Saturday evening in series of acid attacks in and around Stratford shopping mall, Tube and bus station and the surrounding area. The attacks are thought to have been carried ...