Results tagged “Bermondsey”

A violent rapist whose victims ranged from 57 to 83-years-old has been jailed for life after being found guilty at Southwark Crown Court of the attacks.

Michael John Roberts, 45, was sentenced for three counts of rape, four charges of burglary, two indecent assaults, two counts of GBH with intent and one count of buggery.

Former world heavyweight champion David Haye will be in Canary Wharf this lunchtime to sign copies of his biography.

The Bermondsey-born boxer quit the ring on his 31st birthday last month, having lost his WBA title to Witali Klitschko earlier in the year.

A policeman was left with a broken leg following an early hour incident with a suspected drug dealer.

It came after officers spotted a black VW Golf go through a red light in Bermondsey at 1am on Friday

Police investigating the murder of Vitalijs Janovics in Bermondsey last Friday have released CCTV images showing him just before he was fatally stabbed.

Detectives hope the CCTV images will jog someone's memory and witnesses will come forward to assist with the investigation.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of a man outside Bermondsey Underground station.

The men, both aged 18, were arrested on Tuesday evening on suspicion of the murder of Vitalijs Janovics in the early hours of last Friday morning.

A man has died from injuries sustained in an incident last night close to Bermondsey Underground station.

Police were called at around 1.10am after the man, believed to be in his 30s, was discovered with suspected stab wounds in Jamaica Road. He was taken by ambulance to a south London hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Firefighters are battling a major blaze in a block of flats in Bermondsey.

They were called to a fire in a 17th floor flat at Lupin Point on Abbey Street just before 2pm today.

A jury at the Old Bailey cleared two men of shooting dead a night club promoter in Bermondsey.

However, the pair, Michael Campbell, 25, of Jago Walk, SE25, and Bobby Winser, 22, of Eldridge Court, SE16, were convicted of grievous bodily harm towards the victim, Daniel Herbert (right), in the same incident in August 2009.

A solicitor was beaten unconscious in front of his wife by a gang of youths last Saturday.

The incident took place at 9.15pm at Frean Street near Bermondsey Tube station and saw the 49-year-old kicked and punched to the ground.

So proud of their valiant military hero, are Bermondsey residents that they're making it their mission to erect a memorial in his name.

Albert McKenzie is honoured as one of Bermondsey's bravest sons and was an Able Seamen who took part in the Zeebrugge raid of St George's Day 1918.

Stress has become such a common term in the modern workplace that perhaps we no longer take it seriously, masking it with a night out rather than dealing with the problem.

A new centre in Bermondsey certainly thinks so and is keen to encourage people to join them in relieving the symptoms through their practices.

David Haye is already planning the first defence of his world heavyweight title and it could be at The O2.

Bermondsey-born Haye won the WBA version of the crown when he defeated giant Russian Nikolai Valuev on points in Nuremburg on Saturday.

Former undisputed world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis is backing David Haye to win his title fight against Nikolai Valuev tomorrow.

Bermondsey-born Haye face the 7ft 2ins Russian in Germany hoping to become Britain's first world champion in the top division since Lewis hung up his gloves in 2003 writes Steven Davies.

The Jubilee line is still returning to normal after a rush-hour suspension this morning.

Service was suspended for half an hour while emergency services responded to a person who became ill on a train at Bermondsey.

IT may have a history as an inner-city slum, full of Dickensian characters but Bermondsey is being hailed as the latest up-and-coming residential area in Docklands.

The south London town has just seen the first phase of one massive development completed and the final stages of another finished off.