Police have confirmed a body was pulled out of Regents Canal at 2:40 pm this afternoon, near Broadway Market. However, they have not confirmed if the body is male or female. Emergency personel are at the scene and a forensic team have erected a tent. It is thought the body was found in a lock. [...]
Police and London ambulance where called to Homerton High Street at about 5.40 am this morning (Sunday), after gun shots where heard in the area near Digby Road. Shortly after, 4 men arrived at an east London hospital on their own with another man presenting himself at another hospital. A police spokesman said “all victims [...]
Police are appealing for information and witnesses after three linked knife point robberies took place on Thursday 12 January, between 9:30 pm and 10:00 pm in Ashenden Road, E5 and Glyn Road, E5. On all three occasions, the robbers targeted lone females forcing them to hand over their hand bags containing bank cards and [...]
Police say officers monitoring CCTV camera in Clapton last night, noticed 3 suspicious males loitering on bikes. At 11:30 pm a patrol car was despatched to the area. Shots were fired towards the patrol car on Mandeville Street and the 3 males made off over a nearby foot bridge. The car was not hit [...]
Detectives are investigating the abduction and murder of a woman in Hackney. Police were called at approx. 7:10 am on today, Monday 2 January to reports of a disturbance at an address on Brownlow Road, E8, near Queensbridge Road. Officers and London Ambulance paramedics found a 22 year old man and a 24 year old [...]
At street level in trouble-hit Hackney, residents paint a depressing picture of alienation, anger, boredom and mischief
It started outside Tottenham police station with thugs burning police vehicles and soon moved to nearby stores, residences above them and a London Transport bus. It moved on to the nearby retail centre In Tottenham Hale that houses stores like Comet, B&Q, Next, Argos, Asda Living, O2 and PC World where looters smashed and [...]
Two police cars had parked up at Forster Road / High Road while their officers conducted traffic patrols on foot. This is about 200 yards north of Tottenham Police Station. At approx 20.20hrs a number of bottles were thrown at these two cars – one was set alight and the second was pushed into the [...]
Boris Johnson has given youth violence a high profile, but needs to ask whether stop-and-search does more harm than good
UPDATE: The police were alerted after Ena Drake was found by a member of the public this morning at Euston bus station. Police are concerned for Ena Drake, an 80-year-old woman who went missing from her home in Balcorne Street, E9 at approximately 8:00 pm on Monday, 20 December. Ena suffers from mild dementia and [...]
