Results tagged “court”

A gang behind a £35.8 million landbanking scheme operating out of Canary Wharf were sentenced on Friday.

The men who ran the largest ever case of fraud taken on by Tower Hamlets Trading Standards, have been ordered to serve a combined total of 26 years and four months.

A robber who used CS gas and an imitation gun to force bookmakers to hand over cash has been sent to prison for 13 years.

Tom Harris, 27, of no fixed abode, carried out the three attacks in April last year before being traced by police to the West Midlands in August.

A 32-year-old man has appeared in court in relation to the stabbing of two lone women in separate attacks in Wapping.

At Thames Magistrates Court on Thursday, Sijil Miah of Burwell Close in Shadwell was charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of possession of a knife in a public place.

A con man who tricked his victims out of almost £800,000 has been found guilty of 19 counts of acquiring criminal property.

Patrick Bamboi Emuh, 54 of Bromhedge Greenwich cold called and emailed more than 20 people across the globe claiming they had either won the lottery or inherited money from a distant relative.

A 47-year-old Bexleyheath woman will appear in court after she was charged with a racially aggravated public order offence.

A spokesperson for British Transport Police confirmed that Jacqueline Williams, of Snipe Close, was charged following a media appeal.