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A murder investigation is underway following a stabbing in Hackney. Police were called at 2pm on Today (5 December) to reports of a stabbing in Clarence Mews, Hackney. Officers, London Ambulance Service and London’s Air Ambulance attended and found a man seriously injured. Despite their best efforts the man, believed...

05.12.2019

Police appeal following assault in Hackney

AT around 9.55pm on Friday, 29 November, police received a report of an assault on Amhurst Road, N16. It was also alleged that the suspects shouted anti-Semitic abuse during the attack. Officers attended the scene but found no trace of a victim or any witnesses. The following day, police were...

04.12.2019

Seventeen arrested in human trafficking raids in London

Seventeen people have been arrested in early morning raids across east London in an international human trafficking investigation. A total of 29 women aged 20 to 40 were rescued in the operation by the Met, supported by officers from Romania. The potential victims were taken to a “place of safety”,...

14.11.2019

Three men stabbed in South London

Three men have been stabbed within minutes of each other in south-west London in what police believe to be linked attacks. Officers were called to Burston Road, Putney, at 10.42am today following reports of a stabbing. Arriving at the scene, they were told a man had been stabbed and then left the scene in a...

12.09.2019

Another bloody weekend in London

As the weekend started on Friday, so did the start of another bloody weekend in London, with back to back reports of stabbings, attacks and collisions. This weekend’s incidents has left 6 people fighting for theirs, while 4 people fell victim to their fatal injuries. Friday A 15-year-old boy...

02.09.2019

Man stabbed in the head outside the Home Office

A man was arrested on suspicion of GBH after a stabbing in the street outside the Home Office in London. The victim, in his 60s, was pictured holding a dressing to his face after being slashed in an attack outside the home office building on Marsham Street, Westminster, on Thursday afternoon. The victim staggered...

15.08.2019

56-year-old man charged after police officer stabbed in Leyton

A man has been charged with attempted murder and possessing an offensive weapon after a police officer was stabbed in the head in east London. The PC was attacked as he tried to stop a van in Leyton early on Thursday. He managed to Taser his assailant while being stabbed...

09.08.2019

New developments in Baris Kucuk’s murder case

POLICE have released a CCTV image of a man they urgently need to trace, as they continue to investigate the murder of 33-year-old Baris Kucuk earlier this year. Detective Chief Inspector Neil John from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command, leads the investigation. He said: “We believe there is strong possibility...

01.08.2019

Halil Ates is wanted by police

A shop worker who allegedly stabbed a teenage customer in a row over the price of a drink is wanted by police. Halil Ates, 40, is accused of climbing over a counter, swinging a punch and then attacking the 19-year-old outside with a 4cm salad knife. The boy swung back but...

19.07.2019

Shots fired at a group of men in Tottenham

Detectives from the Met’s Trident and Area Command are appealing for information after shots were fired at a group of men near a junior school in Tottenham. Officers were called at approximately 6.23pm on Tuesday, 18 June to reports of a man firing shots on Park Lane, N17. It is...

19.07.2019

8 month pregnant woman fatally stabbed in south London

Detectives are investigating after a pregnant woman suffered fatal stab wounds at a residential address in Croydon. Police were called by London Ambulance Service at 03:30hrs on Saturday, 29 June to reports of a woman in cardiac arrest inside an address at Raymead Ave, Thornton Heath. Officers attended along...

29.06.2019

Police hunt for sex attacker in Croydon

A police manhunt is underway after a string of sex attacks in a park in Croydon. Officers are attempting to trace a man following reports of six assaults in the area over the last two months, four of which police said were sexual in nature. The incidents are alleged to have...

25.06.2019

3 murders in 24 hours

Police have made 14 arrests after five separate attacks in London left three men dead and three others injured in the space of 24 hours. An 18-year-old man was stabbed to death at about 16:42 BST on Friday in Wandsworth, south London. Police were called minutes later, at 16:54, to...

16.06.2019

Barış Küçük named as victim stabbed in Haringey

Detectives are hunting a knifeman after 33-year-old Barış Küçük was stabbed in a suspected street robbery at the weekend lost his fight for life in hospital. Küçük was stabbed in the leg in Haringey by a thug apparently trying to steal his mobile phone. Police and paramedics were called to the scene in...

04.06.2019

Man stabbed in a unprovoked attack in Haringey

Detectives in Haringey are appealing for information and witnesses after a man suffered a critical injury in a seemingly unprovoked attack. Police were called by London Ambulance Service (LAS) at 03:09hrs on Saturday, 1 June to reports of a stabbing at Seven Sisters Road, near the junction with Vartry Road....

03.06.2019

Man arrested for firing shots at a Mosque

updated: 24.05.19 13.10 A man has been arrested after shots were fired at a mosque during Ramadan prayers. Worshippers at the Seven Kings Mosque in Ilford were part-way through evening prayers late on May 9 when the incident took place. Police have charged Jermaine Wright, 28 (13.01.91), of Lebus Street N17, was charged on Thursday,...

23.05.2019

Azer Urger jailed for A10 collision

Azer Urger, 20, was sentenced on Friday, 17 May at the Old Bailey to three-and-a-half years imprisonment for causing a serious road traffic collision on the A10 in October 2017. He has also been disqualified from driving for five years and nine months. On 4 October 2017, officers from the...

20.05.2019

Extinction Rebellion ‘cost Met extra £7.5m’

A series of climate change protests in London last month cost the Met Police an extra £7.5m, it has been claimed. Nearly 1,200 people were arrested during 11 days of protests by the Extinction Rebellion group. Met Commissioner Cressida Dick said overtime payments and the cost of bringing officers in...

15.05.2019