A POLICE investigation is underway after two people were found dead in Dagenham, last Saturday, 9th August. Police believe that the two people knew each other and no one else is being sought in connection with the deaths. Police were ...

TWO TEENS, both 16, were on trial at the Old Bailey in connection with the murder of Baptista Adjei in Stratford last October. On Tuesday this week, one was found guilty of murder and wounding. The other was found not ...

IT TOOK TWO trials at the Old Bailey, but Yasin Omar Amare, 29, of Pawleyne Close, Penge, has now been found guilty of murdering Gleb Stanislavovitch Zhebrovsky (known as Gleb Stalnoy). The first trial took place at the Old Bailey ...

OVER 100 bikes have been recovered in Hackney – and police believe many, if not all, were probably stolen. Two men were arrested during the raid on suspicion of handling stolen goods and possession of criminal property. One of the ...

A SET OF early morning raids were carried out in Waltham Forest in the early morning of 6th August. Warrants for the raids were issued after a three month police effort named Operation Beamond, designed to target violence and drug ...

THE SORRY STORY began when Jack Bush, 24, of Oakdale Road, E11, got into a fight with Constantin Sin on High Road in Leytonstone in the early hours of 5th May 2019. Riyaz Adam, who called himself a friend of ...

IT WAS A costly party for Kasim Hussain, 18, of Clifford Road, Canning Town – six years in jail, to be precise. It was an even costlier party for his victim, who received serious injuries to his chest and a ...

POLICE HAVE NAMED a man they wish to speak to in connection with a sexual assault which took place on a 243 bus on Sunday, 31st May. He is David O’Brien, 51. The offence occurred as the bus made its ...

IT WAS January this year when Czeslaw Swiatkowski, 67, was murdered in Clapton. At the end of July, Dawid Wycik, 28, of no fixed abode, was found guilty of the murder – and sentence to prison, with a minimum tariff ...

TOWER BRIDGE, 10pm, Saturday, 1st August. It’s an unexceptional Saturday night in lockdown-eased London: people going home, people going out; traffic at a crawl – and a crowd of Algerian football fans celebrating their heads off. It’s hard to piece ...