Posted on May 4, 2013 by Eastlondonlines and saved under Crime, Croydon
Police are appealing for information following a stabbing on a bus in Croydon on Friday afternoon 3 May. The incident took place at around 4.10 p.m on the top floor of the No 60 bus. The Air Ambulance service attended and the teenager was accompanied by a HEMS (Helicopter Emergency…
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Posted on May 3, 2013 by Saskia Black and saved under Crime, General Features, Hackney, Lead Stories
Stop Criminalising Hackney Youth, a campaigning group monitoring the policing of young people, is questioning the roll out of Metropolitan Police tasers in the Borough in the light of controversial incidents elsewhere of suspects being injured or dying during “taser arrests.” East London Lines reporter Saskia Black has been given…
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Posted on May 1, 2013 by Hana Walker-Brown and saved under Crime, Lead Stories, Lewisham, News
The Metropolitan Police are following up a number of phone calls regarding the murder of Stephen Lawrence. The calls were received after an appeal for information on appeared on Crimewatch. The BBC 1 programme aired on April 29, almost a week after the 20th anniversary of Lawrence’s murder. Detective Chief…
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Posted on May 1, 2013 by Charles Warren McGinnes and saved under Crime, Lewisham, Sports
The Metropolitan Police inquiry into violent disorder by fans in the Millwall supporters area of the Wembley FA Cup semi-final with Wigan on 13 April has resulted in over 40 arrests and ‘Operation Arrowtip’ continues to release CCTV images to identify people detectives would like to interview. Television footage of…
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Posted on May 1, 2013 by Sean Mullervy and saved under Crime, Lead Stories, Lewisham
Patrick Ryan, 64, was found guilty Tuesday 30 April of a continued series of sexual assaults on two young girls during the 1970s. He was convicted by a jury at Woolwich Crown Court on four counts of rape, two counts of attempted rape and seven counts of indecent assault. The…
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Posted on April 29, 2013 by Hana Walker-Brown and saved under Crime, Lewisham, News
Crimewatch will make a fresh appeal tonight in connection with the murder of Stephen Lawrence in Eltham. Lawrence was fatally stabbed on 22 April 1993 by a group of up to six white youths in an unprovoked racist attack. In wake of the 20th anniversary of the attack, DCI Clive…
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Posted on April 29, 2013 by Hannah Newton and saved under Crime, Croydon, Lead Stories
A father from New Addington, John Hayward, made a plea on BBC Crimewatch Monday last night, 29 April, for any information that can lead to the arrest and prosecution of a gang of youths who attacked him and his son with baseball bats and metal poles about one and a…
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Posted on April 27, 2013 by Padraigh Perkins-Edge and saved under Crime, Lead Stories, Lewisham
The head of the Met Police’s Trident Gang Crime Command, Detective Superintendent John Crossley, has pledged zero tolerance for any level of criminality by gang culture after three men and one woman from Lewisham were convicted at Woolwich Crown Court on Tuesday 23 April for possession of firearms and controlled…
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