A SERIES OF violent actions in Barking led to Brandon Wallace being jailed last month. He had threatened a woman in an incident of domestic violence – and went on to spit at police trying to arrest him. Officers from ...

THE BURGLARY was violent. Three, or maybe four, young men went into the home of an elderly couple via the back door. Intent on finding money, they set out to terrify the couple until they got it. The attack took ...

IT IS A YEAR since Steven Brown was found, dying from a stab wound, in a Hackney street. Now his daughter has added her voice to a police appeal for someone to come forward and help them find whoever killed ...

FOYSOL HUSSAIN, a PC attached to the East Area Command Unit, was found guilty of gross misconduct on 15th April after a two day telephone hearing. It was alleged that: •on 18th February 2019 PC Hussain had been required to ...

DETECTIVES ARE appealing to the public to help them identify and find a man they wish to speak to in connection with an attempted rape which took place early in the morning of Saturday, 7th March in Hoxton Street. STORY ...

OFFICIAL FIGURES for England and Wales show that knife crime in England and Wales for 2019 showed a 7% increase on 2018 – creating a record high of 45,627 offences. The figures were released today by the Office of National ...

HE WAS MURDERED a year ago. Eleven people have been arrested: ten males on suspicion of murder; one woman on suspicion of assisting an offender. All eleven are currently out on bail, in the community. The police investigation into the ...

AN EAST LONDON resident has appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, charged with dissemination of terrorist material contrary to Section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006. He has been named as Shehroz Iqbal, 29 of East London.  His address has not ...

FIVE PEOPLE have been charged with conspiracy to supply Class A drugs following a police operation on 1st April which was arranged to execute various warrants which had been obtained. The five are as follows. •Javian Gordon, 29, of Urswick ...

Tashaûn Aird was killed in cold blood by three fellow teenagers. Those who killed him have now been tried, convicted – and sentenced to lengthy jail sentences. After the sentencing, his grieving family released the following statement, via the police, ...