Two families clashed violently outside the Old Bailey on Monday after a 14-year-old boy from Hackney was sentenced to six years detention for accidentally killing his friend. Furious with what they considered a lenient sentence, friends of Jahmal Mason-Blair, who died earlier this year aged 17, came to blows with relations of Michael Ematuwo, the [...]

Photographs, flowers and candles, along with cans of his favourite drinks and cigarette packets, are laid out in tribute. The doorway next to where he died bears hundreds of signatures and messages.

Two Lewisham brothers have been jailed for a violent gang-related attack on two teenagers, in which both were run over and one stabbed as he lay bleeding on the pavement. The victim is still in a coma eight months later and may never recover.

Students from across the country descended on Hoxton Square on Saturday night to protest against gas flaring in the Niger Delta.

Operation Trident, the Metropolitan Police unit dealing with gun crime in black communities, is considering plans to visit primary schools in Lewisham for the first time.

While a teenager and her grandmother slept in their Bethnal Green flat, two men poured petrol through the letterbox and set it alight, killing both women. The men, who started the fire over a £15 debt, were given life sentences at the Old Bailey on Monday.