TWO MEN from the Isle of Dogs were sentenced last week at Snaresbrook Crown Court after a police investigation into an assault charge uncovered a drug dealing network. A 31 year old man was assaulted in Hackney Road, E2, back ...

THERE WAS A serious assault in Chingford last October – and police have not given up their quest to find their suspect. Detectives undertaking the investigation have now released CCTV footage of a man they wish to question. It was ...

A MAN WHO committed robberies across East London, as well as carrying out two bomb hoaxes, was sentenced to life imprisonment at Snaresbrook Crown Court last week – with an order that he serve at least seven years. Omar Farooq, ...

THE ANTI-WAR movement across the UK was true to its word – turning out protestors in their tens of thousands to demonstrate that US President Donald Trump was not welcome in the UK. Trump hopped around Britain, avoid the protests ...

BURGLARY WENT wrong – but, even so, Paul Hensley, 57, of Code Street, E1, was given a six year prison sentence. Hensley appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court last Friday, where he was convicted of attempted robbery and possession of an ...

IT WAS 3rd May, around noon, and a cash delivery and collection was taking place at the Sainsbury’s shop on Hall Lane, Chingford. Two men, riding a blue and silver motor scooter approached. The pillion passenger got off the scooter ...

POLICE HAVE found and charged the missing William Deo, who was being sought in connection with an attack in which a “noxious substance” – believe to be ammonia – was thrown. The incident happened at a residential address in Argyle ...

A MALE NURSE has been sentenced to 15 years in jail after being convicted of raping a woman patient while he was at work in an East London hospital. He was also issued with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for ...

POLICE have confirmed that they have charged a man with the murder of Abulrahman Nassor Juma, 23, who was stabbed in Crows Lane, Barking, on 17th May. The suspect has been named as Syed Fahad, 22, of Salisbury Avenue, Barking. ...

AN “ABHORRENT ATTACK” is how police described the events on the morning of 7th February as a 19 year old woman tried to walk peacefully through Roding Valley Park in Redbridge – but was stopped and repeatedly assaulted. The woman ...