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Report by Harry Low

POLICE have recovered around £45,000 worth of heroin in a raid on a Millharbour property.

Officers seized around a kilogram of the drug as well as bundles of money totalling more than £50,000 in one of the biggest heroin busts recorded in the borough.

AN ELDERLY woman has been stabbed to death in a house in the Isle of Dogs.

The 70-year-old was found dead at an address in Byng Street late on Tuesday night. Four people have since been arrested in connection with the attack.

Police officers and London Ambulance Service crews flocked to the scene at 10.30pm, but the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

Three men and one woman are being held in custody at separate East London and City of London police stations.

MURDERED club-goer Curtis Smith was gunned down just hours before he was due to celebrate his first wedding anniversary.

The West London carer, 36, was visiting Club Red in Cable Street with a wheelchair-bound man when he was shot early on Sunday. He was working night shifts to pay for a new home. His wife Sara issued an appeal on Friday for any information on the murder of her husband.

THE SHOOTING of a clubber outside a Limehouse nightclub has sparked calls for increased police patrols around the area’s late-night haunts.

West Londoner Curtis Smith became the 90th person to be murdered in London this year when he was gunned down outside Cable Street’s Club Red in the early hours of Sunday morning. Carer Andrew Denty, 29, from Waterloo will appear before Thames Magistrates next week charged with the murder.

POLICE have arrested a man following a fatal shooting outside a Limehouse nightclub.

The man, who is in his twenties, remains in custody following the murder of a 35-year-old West London man outside Club Red in Cable Street, in the early hours of Sunday, July 27.

The victim, who is believed to have been at the club with friends, was shot in the head and neck as he left the premises.

Police were called to reports of a shooting at 3.45am.

The victim was later pronounced dead at the scene.

The crew of the Hurricane, based at Trinity Buoy Wharf, helped pull the man to safety last Thursday evening after he jumped off London Bridge.

The Hurricane – manned by captain Joe Maw, mate Ben Mann and deckhand Ross Myers – was about to leave London Bridge City Pier at 7pm when a passenger spotted the man in the water. He is believed to be about 35 and of Turkish origin.

The passenger informed the crew and the quick-thinking sailors threw the stranded man a lifebelt while they raised the alarm. A boat from the Metropolitan Police Marine Unit, based at Wapping, and the Tower RNLI lifeboat were quickly on the scene.

A CONVICTED rapist will be deported to Bangladesh after serving an eight-year sentence.

Poplar resident Abdul Aziz was jailed for his attack on a 19-year-old girl in Blair Street on August 3 last year. The 26-year-old was found guilty of raping the woman outside her home soon after she had said goodnight to her boyfriend.

The victim had walked from All Saints DLR with him, and continued to walk along East India Dock Road after leaving him at his home address.

She told officers she was approached at the junction of Chrisp Street by Aziz, who asked her for a lighter. He then tried to engage her in conversation and followed her along East India Dock Road. As she was about to enter a block of housing just after 10pm the man pushed her into some bushes and threatened to kill her before launching the sex attack.

THE FAMILY of a murdered Isle of Dogs man have made an emotional plea to help bring their son’s killers to justice.

Police are offering a £20,000 reward for information on the stabbing of Darren Sherman in Manchester Road five years ago tomorrow (March 7).

Darren’s parents Rosemarie Belle and James Sherman marked the anniversary by issuing an appeal to anyone who can help close the investigation.

Rosemarie said: “It’s been five years since Darren was taken from us, and we still don’t know what happened to our son. I just want some closure on this now.”