IT WAS A truly horrific ordeal – the sort that none of us would want to suffer or have done to our loved ones. But it happened in Newham, and now police are appealing for any witnesses to come forward. ...

A MAN WHO was of no fixed address will now have stable accommodation for the next 26 weeks – in one of Her Majesty’s Prisons. This is as a result of an assault he committed in the A&E department of ...

A POLICE OPERATION during January, focussed on reducing the incidence of robbery in Barking, saw the Longbridge Neighbourhood Policing Team make nine arrests. The team sent out enhanced patrols in Barking town centre, Barking Park, the Gascoigne Estate and Faircross ...

A MAN found guilty of three counts of writing anti-Semitic graffiti on bus stops in Stamford Hill has escaped with a community order by way of punishment. Antonio Santos, 61, of Cruikshank Street, Islington, admitted three counts of racially aggravated ...

A POLICE PATROL in the London Fields area, E8, has uncovered a number of knives, a small amount of cannabis and two motor vehicle registration plates. As the patrol went along Wilman Grove at around 6pm on 20th January, they ...

IT BEGAN AS a simple car stop. It was mid-January, it was Whitechapel Road, E1 – and the number plate on a passing vehicle was incorrect. Officers from the Violent Crime Taskforce, out on a proactive patrol, stopped the car. ...

HE HAD pleaded guilty last October to multiple charges of abusing children – including sexual assault on a girl and on a boy, both under ten years of age, and making and distributing indecent images of children. In January he ...

MOST LONDONERS are following the restrictions of the third lockdown – but a small number are involved in flagrant or silly breaches. In response, the Metropolitan Police have made it clear they will enforce the law. The need to keep ...

A KNIFE IS OFF the streets of East London, and a teenager will now have to face up to the consequences of having it in his possession following swift action by the police earlier this month. Officers from the Metropolitan ...

GUN CRIME is a serious problem in East London – but this is the first time we recall hearing of a man going out in the early hours to shoot a house.  It was around 3am on 12th January when ...