Posts Tagged ‘crime’
Two men convicted after Stoke Newington kidnap and torture ordeal
Anthony Malone and Ranjit Gojra found guilty of brutal attack in Stoke Newington in 2007
Read MoreAarron McKoy murder: family appeal for help over New Year’s Day shooting
Appeal made by parents of Aarron McKoy, who was shot dead on 1 January
Read MoreHackney police appeal after three women robbed at knifepoint in Clapton
Hackney Police’s Robbery Team seeking information following three separate robberies in Clapton
Read MoreRioter gets five years in longest sentence yet relating to August disorder
Junior Saunders pleaded guilty to violent disorder, criminal damage to a police car and burglary in Hackney on 8 August
Read MoreMan charged with murder after Hackney pub stabbing
Police investigating the death of Tommy Lawrence found stabbed outside the Glyn Arms in Clapton have charged a man with murder
Read MoreTop boy: stories of Hackney’s young drug dealers
Ronan Bennett spent two years interviewing gang members in east London for his powerfully personal TV drama, Top Boy. Here he describes their hidden, hopeless world – and the lengths they’ll go to escape from it
Read MoreAfter the riots: the Hackney worker teaching young men to be ambitious
Youth worker Emeka Egbuonu’s book has much to teach policymakers following the riots, writes Rachel Williams
Read MoreWhat caused the Hackney riots? A local teacher speaks out
“You could see it coming…the kids don’t feel like they’re part of anything, they don’t feel they’re being heard”
Read MoreHackney: ‘these riots were about lack of opportunity’ – video
Channel 4 video: a local filmmaker talks to two members of a gang about possible reasons for the riot and their relationship with the police
Read MoreHackney riots: ‘The message when youth clubs close is that no one cares’
Half the borough’s children live in poverty. Missing, too, are the summer courses that kept minds and hands busy
Read MoreWhat caused the Hackney riots? Local residents speak out
“These teenagers have got nothing better to do… they think that they’re well hard”
Read MoreUK riots: don’t shut these kids out now
Put the shutters up on the shops, but not in our minds. A punitive and condemning reaction simply mirrors the alienation so many already experience
Read MoreBoris Johnson says London riots “are not a simple issue.”
London’s Tory Mayor has said that the riots’ “background field of causation” is “very, very, various.”
Read MoreHackney riots: why here? why now?
What were the reasons for this week’s violent disturbances in the borough?
Read MoreThe militarisation of policing the riots would be a deadly mistake
Yes, we must regain control of the streets, but loose talk about rubber bullets and water cannon will achieve nothing
Read MoreHackney riots: taking stock
Local residents and businesses pick up the pieces and hope the next few days will be calmer
Read MoreLondon riots: ‘A generation who don’t respect their parents or police’
At street level in trouble-hit Hackney, residents paint a depressing picture of alienation, anger, boredom and mischief
Read MoreSam Hallam murder conviction to go to Court of Appeal
A 24 year-old Hoxton man who was convicted of murder six years ago is to have his case reviewed
Read MoreTwenty arrested in Dalston immigration and drugs swoop
A joint operation by Hackney Police, Hackney Council and the UK Border Agency cracks down on Class A drug dealing and immigration offences in Ridley Road and at Dalston Junction
Read MoreSend a birthday card to Sam Hallam, the Hoxton One
With a decision expected on whether his case go back to the Court of Appeal, campaigners hope this will be the last birthday Hallam spends in prison
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