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…
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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Hackney Council is campaigning against budget cuts to policing in the Borough because they fear a significant drop in the overall number of officers. The council says since 2010, police officer figures have been falling and Mayor Boris Johnson’s Crime and Policing plan to reduce the police budget will lead…
Police in Hackney are investigating the stabbing of two youths in Lower Clapton last night, which are believed not have been linked. One 16-year-old male is in a ‘very serious but stable’ condition in an east London hospital. A 15-year-old injured in a separate incident has been discharged after treatment.…
Two Metropolitan Police officers and one civilian police worker involved in the investigation into the murder of a woman by her partner in Tower Hamlets two years ago have been criticised for procedural failures in a report by the police complaints watchdog. The report by the Independent Police Complaints Commission into…
Three teenagers have been arrested in connection with the stabbing of a 14-year-old boy in Lewisham. The incident occurred outside Ladywell Centre in Dressington Avenue on Monday night around 9:30pm. One male, 14, has been charged with attempted murder and appeared at Bromley Youth Court today. The two other males…
Police are urgently appealing for witnesses after an elderly man was viciously attacked by four females. The 76-year-old victim was attempting to drive out of Carberry Road, Upper Norwood, when two other vehicles blocked it, at about 5.30am on Saturday, February 2. The victim got out of his vehicle and approached…
Tower Hamlets is the first borough to equip non-specialist police officers with controversial Taser-like stun guns that charge 50,000 volts electrodes, from Monday, February 18. The eight stun guns, costing just under £1000 each, have been issued to the Tower Hamlets police force. The move comes as part of the…
A teenager, who was shot in the head over the weekend in Clapton, was the victim of “mistaken identity”, according to police. Joseph Burke-Monerville, 19, from Islington, was shot on February 16 at around 8:20pm. He died three hours later in hospital. His older brother, 22, was also shot in…
A 19-year-old man has died and a 22-year-old man was injured last night after being shot in the street. The incident took place on Hindrey Road, in Clapton, Hackney at 8.20 pm yesterday, police said. The victims were taken to hospital by ambulance, where the 19-year-old later died. The…
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