An image released by the Metropolitan Police in Richmond showed the man they are now hoping to speak with brandishing what appeared to be a baseball bat. Without providing a time, police said the incident in question happened on Upper Richmond Road. They said that the man pictured in the image “allegedly fractured a victims...
Two people have been arrested after a stabbing in Chelsea Harbour last night left a teenage boy in hospital. Although his condition was initially thought to be life-threatening, it has now been deemed not life-threatening. Police were called to Harbour Avenue at just before 7pm on Wednesday (May 5). The 15-year-old victim suffered multiple stab...
Two police officers have been charged with misconduct. The offence relate to photographs taken and circulated in relation to a murder scene of two sisters in Wembley in June 2020. PC Deniz Jaffer, 47, and PC Jamie Lewis, 32, both of the North East Command, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, May 27...
A man has died after being struck by a minicab in west London. Officers were called to Harrow Road, near Royal Oak tube station, just after 10.30pm on Wednesday and found the 44-year-old man seriously injured. Medics battled to save him but he died at the scene. His next of kin have been informed. The driver of the car, a...
A woman thought to be in her 70s has died in a flat fire in Hornsey, North London, after 40 firefighters were called to tackle a blaze that broke out in an upper floor maisonette. The fire occurred on the first floor of a five room flat on Springfield Avenue in Haringey, this morning (Friday,...
A man who stabbed a mother and her three children more than 50 times during a frenzied attack has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 32 years. Liban Malhamoub, 45, stabbed the three children, all of whom were aged under 12, a total of 34 times with multiple knives during the “sustained and repeated assault”...
Protesters and the police clashed in London over a controversial policing bill which led to 26 arrests and 10 injured police officers. Protesters in the ‘thousands’ descended on Central London to protest the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill earlier today (Saturday, April 3) which started in Hyde Park and ended in protesters being ‘kettled’ near...
London recorded zero Covid-19 deaths yesterday for the first time since September 2020. This figure relates to deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test – and this is the first time zero deaths have been recorded in London in six months . The positive news comes after very tough winter with many people...
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has told MyLondon “it goes without saying” he needs more power and resources. Speaking as he officially launched his campaign for a second term in office, the Labour mayoral candidate said it “goes without saying” that the capital needs more autonomy. “When I speak to my friends in New York...
Cressida Dick was clinging on as head of the Metropolitan Police today despite anger behind the scenes over an official Scotland Yard report into the Clapham Commonvigil that the Standard has learned was “defiant” in tone and ran to just two pages. The Met Commissioner’s position looked safe for the time being when a senior Downing Street source told the...