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...
Folajimi “Jimi” Olubunmi-Adewole, 20, was on his way home from work at a central London restaurant when he and another man, Joaquin Garcia, entered the water at around midnight on Saturday April 24. The Coastguard and the Metropolitan Police Marine Policing Unit rescued the woman and Mr Garcia, but could not locate Mr Olubunmi-Adewole. On...
A Section 60 stop and search has been authorised in the Wandsworth and Merton area following the terrifying witness accounts. Additional officers have now been deployed in local areas to “provide reassurance”. The Met Police received multiple reports of males armed with weapons in Putney, the Sutton and Croydon Guardian reported. The force said in...
The Insulate Britain eco-protest group have continued their protest in the streets, this time in a road in central London. Frustrated drivers were seen exiting their vehicles to confront the eco group. One van driver began to slowly ram the protestors as they stood and sat in the middle of the road. The police were...
The police feel “more let down than anybody” about the murder of Sarah Everard, Home Office minister Damian Hinds has said. Speaking to Times Radio, he said: “I think everybody is shaken by this terrible case. It is also really important to take a moment once again to pay tribute to all the men and women who serve in our policing service...
The 15-year-old boy stabbed to death in the street on his way to school in Hayes has been named by police. The Metropolitan Police has named the victim as Jalan Woods-Bell. Another 15-year-old boy has appeared in court today (Saturday, June 12) charged with his murder. Police were called to reports of a fight on Blyth...
Neighbours reported hearing loud “banging and shouting” early on Wednesday morning (May 19) as police raided an address in Yorkshire Road. An eyewitness said: “It nearly gave me a heart-attack – all that noise made my heart sink. “The banging and shouting, the police were extremely loud.” Following the incident, a spokesperson for Met Police...
A decision by the Home Office to delay a review into the unsolved 1987 murder of British private detective Daniel Morgan has been described as “a kick in the teeth” by the deceased’s family. The Daniel Morgan Independent Panel was due to publish its findings into the Metropolitan Police’s handling of the investigation into his death on 17 May, only for the government to...
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...
A Metropolitan Police Service officer who was found to have racially profiled a Black driver during a stop-and-search last year will face no penalty for their actions. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) launched an investigation after a 27-year-old man was stopped after being observed by officers while driving in Old Kent Road in south London, in May...