POLICE HAVE asked the public to help them find the young man who raped a young teenage girl in Goodmayes Park on Monday, 1st February. The incident occurred at round 2.30pm. The teenager was jogging round the Park when she ...

IT’S BEEN A busy time for police officers from the Metropolitan Police East Area Command (which covers Barking & Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge). They have closed and dismantled 72 cannabis factories over the last six months. The police believe that ...

A MAN has appeared at Thames Magistrates Court charged with impersonating a police officer. He has been named as Martin McCarthy, 29, of Fairfoot Road, E3, in Tower Hamlets. It is alleged that McCarthy impersonated a police officer in the ...

POLICE HAVE released a CCTV image of a man they wish to interview in connection with a sexual assault on a girl travelling on a number 55 bus in Hackney just before 5pm on 17th November last year. The incident ...

THERE WAS ONE tiny ray of light in an otherwise sad and horrific story of a fatal collision in Barking, outside the Lidl supermarket in Ripple Road, Barking. The incident took place at around 5pm on Tuesday, 15th December 2020. ...

POLICE HOPE that members of the public will help them identify a man to whom they wish to speak in connection with an incident which took place in Beckton on Sunday, 6th December. It was just before midnight when a ...

THE CASE OF a man who was kidnapped in Newham is being investigated by police – who have appealed to the public to come forward if they have any evidence which can help them make progress. The story began on ...

A WOMAN WAS taken to an East London hospital with life-threatening gunshot wounds – leaving police looking for a reason why she had been shot. Detectives from the Trident team are leading the investigation. It was nearly 9pm on 22nd ...

POLICE CONTINUE to investigate the fatal shooting of a 30 year old man in Balfour Road, Ilford, one week on from the crime. The investigation is being conducted by the Metropolitan Police Specialist Crime Command (Homicide). STORY UPDATE: Mushin Mohamed, ...

POLICE HAVE revealed that a spate of assaults – fortunately, leading only to relatively minor injuries – has been occurring in Rainham, along with other episodes of minor but worrying crime. Members of the public have been asked to help ...