Posts Tagged ‘crime’
Young Londoners still don’t feel police are on their side
Boris Johnson has given youth violence a high profile, but needs to ask whether stop-and-search does more harm than good
Read MoreContract killers as young as 15 recruited to do drug syndicates’ dirty work
Turkish crime gangs in north London thought to be linked to spate of killings
Read MoreBritain’s youngest ‘hitman’ convicted of woman’s murder
Teenage gang member known as Riot was 15 when he killed Gulistan Subasi outside her Hackney home last year
Read MoreHackney teenager caught with loaded gun and clown mask on train
Mitchell Woods of Haggerston is jailed for three years after being found in possession of a semi-automatic weapon and ammunition
Read MoreGang members jailed for life over teenage girl’s murder
Two men found guilty of killing innocent schoolgirl in pizza shop revenge attack that went wrong
Read MoreLondon 2012 Olympics: Crackdown on brothels ‘puts sex workers at risk’
Police clean-up of London’s Olympic boroughs is pushing vice crime and human trafficking underground, say critics
Read MoreSecond arrest in Olympic staff explosives case
Arrest of man in Wales follows swoop near London 2012 site on dog handler understood to work for G4S security
Read MoreOlympic 2012 site in London sees security guard arrested for explosives
40-year-old dog handler held after vehicle searched in a car park off Pudding Mill Lane
Read MorePolice hunt five attackers over Stoke Newington teenagers’ double knife stabbing
Two 16 year old boys were hospitalised after being set upon in Shakspeare Walk
Read MoreInterview: Ken Livingstone
The Labour party’s candidate for London mayor talks budgets, students, crime and the Olympics
Read MoreWoman, 92, suffers broken hip during robbery
Bag is snatched as attacker follows his victim home after a shopping trip
Read MoreWoman glassed in face on night out nearly loses eye
Police are appealing for witnesses to attack on the dance floor
Read MoreHackney duo jailed for possession of guns
Pistol, handgun and ammunition found in offenders’ car and at home in the wardrobe
Read MorePolice appeal for witnesses to New Year’s Day shooting in Clapton
23 year old man is in a stable condition after being shot in the chest outside Olympia Eatery, Upper Clapton Road
Read MoreHackney student caught with gun and ammo stash jailed for 5 years
Hiding a weapon on behalf of someone else is no defence, warn police
Read MoreMurderer of mother and two young girls 28 years ago is jailed for life
Tony Dyce raped and killed Norma Richards, then stabbed and drowned two of her daughters
Read MoreOperation Trident cuts threat provokes backlash
Victims of crime and MPs have voiced concern over plans to cut unit investigating violent crime within the black community
Read MoreOperation Trident may be ditched in spending cuts
Unit dedicated to investigating violent crime among London’s black communities at risk of being disbanded
Read MoreWoman wanted for GBH
Police are seeking information on Lorna Strachan, who is considered ‘dangerous’
Read MoreWoman sexually assaulted in own home
Police release CCTV shots of suspect
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