Results tagged “crime”

Police are looking for an 18-year-old on the Isle of Dogs in connection with a stabbing on Commercial Road last year.

They would like to speak to Brandon Hutchinson about the stabbing outside a shop on September 7. They believe Hutchinson is living on or near the Island.

Two men from Tower Hamlets have been jailed for eight years each for being part of a gang involved in a plan to steal £5million of drugs.

Aaron Morris, 22, of Fawe Street and Mark Morris, 37, of East India Dock Road, were sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Friday after pleading guilty to conspiracy to rob and conspiracy to supply controlled drugs.

A Greenwich man has been jailed at the Old Bailey for eight years after being convicted of a robbery in Thamesmead.

Christopher Christou, 26, of Bolton House in Trafalgar Road, was put under surveillance by the Met Police's Flying Squad for six weeks in May and June and was found to be monitoring cash in transit deliveries in preparation for the robbery.

Murder squad detectives have arrested a man in connection with the killing of Danny O'Shea in Canning Town.

Mr O'Shea, 18, died last Friday evening after being attacked in Gill Avenue, E16, possibly after being chased by a group of men. Officers arrested a 43-year-old man yesterday. He is in custody at an east London police station.

A teenager was forced onto the tracks after he was robbed by a gang at Greenwich railway station.

The 17-year-old victim from Plumstead took the dangerous action after four men attacked him and stole his mobile phone while he was waiting for a train.

Three men have been arrested in connection with the murder of Genson Courtney in Greenwich.

The men, aged 28, 34 and 27, were arrested this morning at addresses in east and south London on suspicion of Mr Courtney's murder in July. They are being held at a central London police station.

Three men who staged robberies netting them £55,500 in Tower Hamlets and Newham have been jailed at the Old Bailey.

Robert Agius and Edmundas Bacelis, both of Cartwright Road, Dagenham, have been sentenced to two years' imprisonment each, while Zilvinas Sklerius, of Dersingham Avenue, Manor Park, received two years and four months.

The Isle of Dogs didn't escape last night's rioting with looters stealing £15,000 of goods from a Tesco store and four cars being burned out on the Timber Wharf estate.

The violence began at around 10.25pm when a gang of up to 60 youths attacked Tesco Express in Pepper Street.

It's business as usual for the organisers of the London Olympics despite the widespread rioting across the capital.

Several nights of trouble, including in host boroughs Newham, Greenwich and Hackney, will not prevent the scheduled test events taking place.

Two 18-year-old men have been charged with the murder of Vitalijs Janovics on July 22.

Kai Taliana of Vauban Estate, SE16, and Khaled Ait-Said of Guinness Court, Mansell Street, E1 appeared at Croydon Magistrates Court last Saturday. They were remanded to appear at the Old Bailey tomorrow.

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.

A Beckton man has been sentenced to two years in prison for his part in an internet scam which enticed its victims to part with millions of pounds.

Michael Ugboaja, of Mitchell Walk, was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court yesterday, for laundering over £470,000 scammed from victims all over the world.

A manager at jewellers David M Robinson in Jubilee Place was injured as he tried to stop gem raiders ransacking his shop.

Three hooded men launched a smash and grab robbery at the store on Tuesday afternoon as horrified Wharf shoppers looked on.

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British Transport Police (BTP) want to trace him in connection with an investigation into the posting of homophobic stickers around east London, including Canary Wharf, in recent months. The stickers feature a rainbow flag with a red line through it with the message 'gay free zone'.

Late night anti-social behaviour has created friction between two popular bars and local residents on West India Quay.

Problems, including a stabbing last November, have been blamed on drinkers attracted to the Quay by the late licenses at Bar 38 and Via Fossa, with residents wanting licensing hours curbed.

Photos of a brutal gang attack at East India Dock Road have been released by police in a bid to catch the attackers.

The serious assault took place in a food store at about 1.40am on January 22 this year. A 17-year-old man was hit over the head with a bottle while being attacked by three men.

Members of a drugs gang are facing long prison sentences for supplying heroin and cocaine from a premises in Cable Street.

The five man gang operated from a unit at Cable Street Studios, which was raided by police on August 27 last year. The premises were used to cut and mix drugs, and officers found cocaine and heroin there with a street value of £11,750, along with over £10,000 in cash.

Police are asking for information regarding three incidents near Poplar over the weekend, one which left a man with a broken leg.

It began on Saturday at 4pm in the afternoon, near the Will Crooks Estate by Poplar High Street, when a dispute between youths led to one of them being hit by a car.

Queen of crime writing Martina Cole tells it like it is. And as I talk to her about the adaptation of her novel The Graft for the stage at Theatre Royal Stratford East, she tells me in her gravely Essex tones: "The crime world doesn't frighten me - if people get on my nerves I tell them I will kill them - and they believe me."

Top crime author Martina Cole is on a mission to help ensure Theatre Royal Stratford East survives un-scathed as a cultural gem.

She said: "I believe that theatres should remain at the heart of the community. Funding for our libraries is in jeopardy and I'm worried that our theatres are going to die out too."