Cyrena Barned had just returned to London after teaching ESL in South Korea for a year, and was looking forward to catching up with family and friends. After a joyous Christmas reunion with her family, she wasn’t expecting her time with her younger brother Aarron, to be tragically and brutality cut short in the early [...]

It appears someone was sentenced for those crimes today. Reiss Hunter of  Paradise Park, Lea Bridge Road, E5 was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment on each of four counts of robbery and a further 4 years for an attempted robbery. The sentences will run concurrently. Back in December 2010, I reported about a series of [...]

A man has been killed, following a police shooting incident,  in Ferry Lane, near Jarrow Road  in Tottenham at approx 6:15 pm today.  He was pronounced dead at the scene. A police officer suffered A man has been killed following a police shooting incident in Ferry Lane, near Jarrow Road  in Tottenham at approx. 6:15 [...]

Hackney Police, in conjunction with Hackney Council and UK Border Agency, have successfully completed a four-month operation in Ridley Road and Dalston Junction, E8, aimed at tackling class A drug dealing in the area. Tuesday saw the arrest phase, which culminated in the following results: 19 arrested for a variety of immigration and drug-related offences, [...]

Eight years ago today, artist Margaret Muller was found collapsed in a pathway between the rose gardens and the children’s play area, in Victoria Park. The 27 year old American of Wallis Rd E9, was a student at the Slade School of Art, University College of London, had been stabbed multiple times in a frenzied [...]

At around 10:30 pm Tuesday 11 January, a man was arrested on the corner of Leabridge Road and Hillstowe Street in Clapton. However the police version is differing from what witnesses are saying.  Police say the 23 year old  black man was arrested by plain clothes police officers, who were conducting a “robbery patrol” of [...]

A 4 year old girl was found stabbed to death yesterday, Thursday 16 December, in Clapton. Police say they responded to reports of a knife incident just after 3pm at a flat on the Chatsworth Estate on Elderfield Road, in E5. Paramedics pronounced 4 year old Nusayba, dead at the scene and a 36 year [...]

I received an email from a press officer at Stoke Newington Police station this afternoon, who was concerned about a report on this site regarding recent muggings committed on people using Millfields Park as a short cut from Leabridge Road. According to the press officer, Leabridge Safer Neighborhood Team denied “putting  out anything proactively about [...]

A murder investigation has began, after two teenagers were found shot at approximately 3:20 am this morning in Chesterton Road E13. A boy believed to be 16 years old was pronounced dead at the scene, while a 15 year old boy  was taken to an East London hospital where he is listed as critical. No [...]

A man believed to be 37 years old was attacked and stabbed on Stoke Newington High Street, early this morning. Police and emergency service were alerted at 2:07am, to an incident outside the Cost Cutter store, where they found the man with stab wounds.  He was taken to an East London hospital, where he is [...]