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Posts Tagged ‘crime’

TfL bosses urged to tackle violence against women and girls as offences rise

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 5 December 2025 at 10:35
Tube

Campaigners have called on Sir Sadiq Khan to address violence and harassment of women and girls on the capital’s tubes and buses

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Dalston shop owner ‘brought to justice’ after selling knife to child

By Gabriel Stewart | Monday 24 November 2025 at 15:44
Kingsland High Street

Muhammed Syed, owner of Madina Pound Plus on Kingsland High Street, pleaded guilty to selling a knife to a 14-year-old earlier this year

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Woman injured and man dead in Clissold Park shooting – as police appeal for witnesses

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 18 September 2025 at 15:28

Officers confirm that the pair were ‘known to each other’ and they believe it was an ‘isolated incident’

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Man who killed partner in car then confessed to brother is detained under Mental Health Act

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 1 September 2025 at 22:39
Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche

Gogoa Lois Tape was sentenced to a hospital order for the manslaughter of Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche

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Man guilty over Dalston shooting that left nine-year-old girl with bullet lodged in brain

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 18 August 2025 at 18:54
Javon Riley was found guilty of three charges of attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent

Javon Riley, 33, had denied three charges of attempted murder, relating to three men, and causing grievous bodily harm with intent to the girl

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Indefinite ban for Hackney man who left dogs in crates without food or water

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 5 August 2025 at 21:52
Nipsy in crate

Matthew Berry handed lifetime ban following RSPCA investigation

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Police launch murder probe after stabbing and gas explosion in Stoke Newington

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 17 June 2025 at 20:54

Victim named as 46-year-old Annabel Rook, with man, 44, arrested following ‘domestic-related incident’

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‘Heritage crime’: Residents decry vandalism and decay at Old St Mary’s churchyard

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 17 January 2025 at 18:53

Graves opened and graffiti sprayed on walls of Grade II-listed medieval church in Stoke Newington

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Dalston councillor urges London mayor to push for fairer policing after deputy mayor resigns

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 8 October 2024 at 09:21
Zoë Garbett

Green Party’s Zoë Garbett says new appointment must set London towards ‘more just policing era’

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Hackney man jailed for life after antisemitic arson attack

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 11 September 2024 at 11:06
Ian Pitkin

‘Offence was motivated by a hostility towards people of Jewish faith,’ judge rules

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Murder investigation launched after boy, 15, stabbed to death in Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 24 July 2024 at 10:10
Police tape

Officers appeal for witnesses following stabbing near Hackney Downs yesterday afternoon

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Girl, 9, left ‘fighting for life’ after shooting in Dalston

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 30 May 2024 at 18:00

The youngster and three men were hit with bullets outside Evin restaurant last night

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Man, 47, arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following two crossbow attacks in Shoreditch

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 18 March 2024 at 11:53

The suspect is in custody in east London after a woman was shot in the head and a man was hit in the neck in separate assaults

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Teenager arrested on suspicion of murder following fatal stabbing on Hackney Road

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 20 February 2024 at 10:30
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Seventeen-year-old in custody after boy of the same age died on Saturday night

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Tom Dewey: Little could have been done to stop him becoming a councillor, concludes inquiry

By Darryl Chamberlain | Thursday 25 January 2024 at 16:14
John Henderson

‘Bail conditions are an agreement between the individual and the officer making bail to that person, and it’s no business of the council’s’

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Four-year-old boy dies after suffering knife wounds in Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 21 December 2023 at 15:52
Police tape

A 41-year-old woman who was known to the boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder

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Boy arrested on suspicion of murder after woman shot dead

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 8 December 2023 at 10:52
Lianne Gordon

Lianne Gordon, 42, died at the scene

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Hackney man admits criminal damage of Israeli embassy

By Carla Feric | Thursday 23 November 2023 at 11:58
John Harvey

75 year-old John Harvey threw a tin of red paint

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Hackney cyclist who died in Kenworthy Road collision named

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 19 October 2023 at 12:33
Cyclist Harry Webb

24-year-old woman arrested after colliding with cyclist and another car

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Teenager jailed for four years for string of sex attacks around Hackney Marshes

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 13 October 2023 at 14:33

Zyroam Allen pleaded guilty to one count of rape, one count of indecent exposure, and seven counts of sexual assault

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