Three teenagers have been stabbed after reports of a fight in Croydon, London on Friday. Police were alerted to reports of a fight at 4.35pm on the bank holiday Good Friday in Goldcrest Way, New Addington. Three males – aged 15, 16 and 18 – were rushed to hospital after sustaining stab wounds. London Ambulance Service and the police had attended the scene...
The Isis-supporting terrorist who killed Sir David Amess has been convicted of murdering the MP and plotting attacks on other politicians. Ali Harbi Ali, 26, said he murdered the Conservative politician because he had voted for airstrikes against Isis in Syria and Iraq. He had been plotting to murder an MP since May 2019, researching other potential targets including Michael...
An investigation has been launched after a woman was followed into her home and raped by a stranger in south London. Police rushed to a residential address in Croydon at 9pm on December 3 after a woman in her 40s reported that she had been sexually assaulted. It is understood that the man had been walking along a street...
The statistics from data.police.uk show crime reports which have occurred between March and August 2021. Greenwich is the eighth highest out of ten neighbourhoods with the most reported burglaries during that period. A total of 48 burglaries have been reported in Greenwich. The town is the only south London borough on the list. The data...
A protester who helped roll the statue of Edward Colston to Bristol Harbour and throw it in the water has said he was staging a symbolic “sentencing” of the slave trader. The memorial to the 17th century merchant was toppled during a Black Lives Matter march in June 2020, before being dragged and rolled 500m and dumped in the harbour. It...
Aman who raped a woman after imprisoning her for four days has been jailed for 22 years. Abdul Awil, 29, from Fulham, was sentenced at Harrow Crown Court on Friday for GBH with intent, false imprisonment and two counts of rape. He was also issued with a Restraining Order for life. Police were called by the London Ambulance Service to an address...
Officers were called to Alpha Road at around 11.50pm on November 27, attending alongside ambulance services, where they found the victim. He was taken to hospital for treatment, where he remains in a non-life-threatening condition. Detectives believe that the man had been at a party in the area prior before being attacked. This party was...
The law should be changed to stop the “future prospects” of grooming gang victims being tarnished by crimes committed because of the abuse suffered, a watchdog has suggested. A probe into the police response to child sexual exploitation in Rotherham said many survivors “now have criminal records as a result of their actions when they were being exploited”. The Independent...
Police have named the failed bomber who died in the Liverpool Women’s Hospital explosion. Detectives said they strongly believe the taxi passenger who was carrying the device was Emad al-Swealmeen. The 32-year-old is thought to have lived in a house in Sutcliffe Street where several other men have been arrested. He recently rented a different property, in...
Two Metropolitan Police officers who took sickening pictures of the bodies of two murdered sisters and shared them on WhatsApp are facing jail. PC Deniz Jaffer, 47, and PC Jamie Lewis, 33, had been assigned to guard the scene overnight after Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were found dead in bushes at Fryent Country Park in Wembley. Four images...