WHO KNEW dominoes was such a popular game that it was being played in basements around Whitechapel?  Who knew it was so addictive that players could not resist breaking Tier 4 restrictions to have a game? Whoever was in the ...

IT’S A NEW YEAR – but there’s no let up on the knife crime on East London’s streets. One of the last victims, possibly the very last victim, of 2020 has now been named. Abiola Olalekan Akerele, 28, was stabbed ...

A MAN HAS BEEN found guilty of sexual activity with a child after a one week trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court.  The conviction was finally reached over three years after the event – following a long police investigation. The police ...

POLICE ARE investigating an incident in Newham in which a man preyed on two 11 year old girls. The incident took place on 19th November, just after 8am, on Woolwich Manor Way, E6. The two girls were walking along the ...

AN EAST LONDON bus driver has been given a suspended jailed sentence after admitting four counts of making indecent images of children. The sentence is suspended for 18 months. The guilty man was named as Ronald Neill, 57. As well ...

POLICE HAVE appealed to the public to help them identify and find a man caught in a shop’s CCTV footage. They want to speak to him in connection with an allegation of attempted rape. The allegation arises from an incident ...

POLICE OFFICERS are continuing their investigation into a case of indecent exposure on the Isle of Dogs. The incident took place nearly six months ago – but police have now released a CCTV image of a suspect. The incident took ...

A MAN CONVICTED of manslaughter has been jailed for 15 years, with an order that he serve a further three years on licence. The sentencing came a year after the victim died from stab wounds. The killer – Kieron Brown, ...

THREE YOUNG MEN have already been sent to jail for their parts in murdering Abdulrahman Nassor Juma, 23, in Barking. Now a fourth man has been convicted of playing a part in the murder. The fourth man is Warrick Carson, ...

A QUANTITY OF Class A drugs is off the streets of Hackney and the man who had them – and was preparing to sell them – is facing the prospect of being kept off East London streets too. Jordan Samuel-Welsh, ...