Two Polish men who are being sought for extradition over violent crimes they are alleged to have committed in their home country are believed to be in hiding in Croydon, police have revealed. The two men, Krzysztof Malkowski and Michal Ochecki, are among 17 people the Metropolitan Police’s extradition unit…
A New Cross-based web designer is accused of working as an al-Qaida propagandist, and is facing a life sentence in the US after being extradited to New York. Vietnamese citizen, Minh Quang Pham, 32, has been charged with the possession of an AK-47 rifle, receiving military styled training, and providing…
A Colombian waiter is facing a jail sentence for the rape of a 12-year-old girl after being identified by a tarot card reader. John Aguiler-Paez, 37, was caught after a fortune-teller told the young girl’s aunt that her niece was being harmed. Snaresbrook Crown Court heard that the abuse stared when…
A 17-year-old boy has been found guilty for the murder of James Hunter, who was stabbed in the heart as he tried to protect a friend from a revenge attack. A jury at the Old Bailey jury have found the south Norwood teenager guilty, referred to as F due to his…
A man has been sentenced to life after killing his girlfriend by stamping on her head because she wouldn’t give him her Facebook password. Kane Boyce was yesterday jailed for life, with a recommendation of serving a minimum of 20 years, for murder after hitting and stamping his girlfriend to…
A man has been sentenced for urinating on both a paramedic and police officer from a 4th floor balcony while laughing. Andrew Whitehead, 22, urinated from a balcony on Shoreditch High Street, on to paramedic Lorna Mcllwaine and an accompanying Police officer as they responded to an emergency call. Mcllwaine,…
The three missing Muslim schoolgirls from Bethal Green waited in an Istanbul bus station for more than 18 hours before catching a bus that took them towards Syria, new CCTV images reveal. On February 17 they boarded a plane Istanbul, where CCTV footage now shows the girls in a waiting…
Street art by an all-female group of graffiti writers and spray painters was vandalised by “local taggers” in Croydon on Sunday night. The art, completed by women’s movement Femme Fierce in St George’s Walk and the surrounding area, was covered in silver, purple and black “tags”. The street murals were…
The three missing Bethnal Green schoolgirls feared to be looking to join ISIS have crossed into Syria from Turkey, Metropolitan Police say. Kadiza Sultana, 16, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum, both 15, who are all pupils at Bethnal Green Academy, flew from London to Turkey on February 17. The Metropolitan…
A young man has been jailed for a violent robbery committed April 2014, when he brutally assaulted a shopkeeper in Catford. Nazim ‘Naz’ McClarren, 18, from Hither Green Lane, was sentenced to four years of imprisonment at Woolwich Crown Court on February 23 after pleading guilty to robbery and possession…
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