It was the closest I’d ever come to watching a snuff movie. Viewing CCTV footage of a Hackney Police officer and a member of the public allowing a 20 year old Black man, to die on the floor of a shabby convenience store on Kingsland Road this past summer. I said it several times then and […]
Accompanied by Inspector Jeff Bull and Cadet Manager Jill Dimartino, five Hackney Volunteer Police Cadets (VPC) set off on a charity trip to Gambia in West Africa on Friday March 1st, where they spent 13 nights. Their camp base was in a village called Kartong, near the capital, Banjul. PC Tim Beaumont, Cadet Co-coordinator, […]
Lee Jasper a founding member of Operation Trident, writes here exclusively for Hackney Hive on the dismantling of the Met Police’s unit. The Metropolitan Police Service Operation Trident, was born in the late 1990’s after a demand from London black communities, that the police do something to tackle armed criminality in the black community. […]
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 […]
