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 ...

POLICE OFFICERS have hailed Wednesday’s dawn drugs raids in Tower Hamlets as a good example of Operation Continuum – which is carried out in partnership with Tower Hamlets Council. The new Operation replaces the scheme run by the previous Executive ...

EARLY THIS MORNING, 5th August, police staged raids on ten homes in Tower Hamlets. The operation was conducted by the Gangs Task Force and was part of Operation Continuum. Six men were arrested on suspicion of being part of the ...

MYSTERY SURROUNDS a street fight which broke out in Ilford late on Thursday night, 30th July, among a crowd of people who had been attending an Eid celebration. Despite calls on the public to celebrate the festival at home, at ...

IT TOOK TEN YEARS, but persistence on the part of the Metropolitan Police has finally seen Aman Vyas convicted on three counts of rape and one count of rape and murder – crimes committed in Walthamstow between March and May ...

THE SUTTON ARMS pub in Station Lane, Hornchurch, was the scene of an altercation last Friday night, 24th July. Police were called out at just after 11pm. When police arrived at the pub, they found that those involved in the ...

A SERGEANT serving in the Metropolitan Police has been charged with sexual assault on a woman member of police staff during an incident which, it is alleged, took place at police premises in Hackney on 15th October last year. The ...