Tag: police

‘Wrong saveloy and chips order’ among nuisance 999 calls

A mistake with a chip shop order and an out-of-date packet of biscuits were among more than 22,000 time-wasting calls to the Met Police this year. The force said its call handlers had identified 22,491 calls to 999 in the first 11 months of 2019 that were not emergencies. These...

31.12.2019

Teenager shot and stabbed in Walthamstow

A teenager is fighting for life and another has been injured after a shooting and stabbing in north-east London. A 17-year-old was shot and knifed while an 18-year-old was also gunned down in a street attack in Walthamstow on Sunday night. No one has been arrested, Scotland Yard said. Emergency services including armed police rushed to St James Street...

30.12.2019

Man killed in front of family on Christmas Eve

A man shot dead in front of his family in Battersea, south-west London, has been named by the Metropolitan Police as Swedish national Flamur Beqiri. The 36-year-old victim had been out for an evening with his family when he was gunned down in the street on Battersea Church Road. Mr...

27.12.2019

Altun arrested for fatal stabbing in Walthamstow

A man has been charged with murder after a 24-year-old man was stabbed to death and another wounded in Walthamstow. Emergency services rushed to Bromley Road at 7.16 pm on Thursday 19 December to reports of a fight. Despite their effects, a 24-year-old man named as Michael Paul Baptista was pronounced dead at the...

23.12.2019

Man arrest after suspicious device found in polling station

A 48-year-old man has been arrested after a suspicious device was found in the same building as a polling station in Motherwell, Scotland. A bomb squad were called to the Glen Tower flats around 1am on Thursday morning after the device was found on the ground floor. A community room within the...

12.12.2019

Two arrested after a man is fatally stabbed in Haringey

A man has died after being stabbed in north London. Police were called to a residential address in Boyton Road, Hornsey, to reports of a fight just after 6 pm on Monday. The 46-year-old was found suffering from a stab injury. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Officers are...

10.12.2019

Crime on London’s public transport is up by 30%

Crime on London’s public transport network has jumped nearly 30% in a year, fuelled by criminal pickpocket gangs and passengers suspected of making fake theft claims. A total of 16,699 incidents were reported between July and September, compared with 12,911 in the same period a year earlier. That equates to an...

09.12.2019

Man fatally stabbed in Hackney

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

Fatal stabbing in Redbridge

Police are investigating following a fatal stabbing in Redbridge. Police were called at 10.20pm on Tuesday, 19 November to Fullwell Avenue, Ilford, following reports of a fight outside Owen Waters House. Officers attended and found a 19-year-old man suffering from stab injuries. Police administered first aid before paramedics from the...

20.11.2019

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

18-year-old stabbed to death in Hillingdon Civic Centre

An 18-year-old man has been stabbed to death in a west London council’s central offices. The victim was stabbed in the chest in Hillingdon Civic Centre on High Street, Uxbridge, at about 16:40 GMT. He was taken to hospital but pronounced dead less than an hour later. Another teenage boy...

08.11.2019

Man extradited from Cyprus in connection with fatal stabbing

Tyla Gopaul, 21 from Islington was charged in the early hours of Wednesday morning (6 November )with the murder of Zakaria Abukar Sharif Ali following his return to the United Kingdom from Cyprus. Zakaria Bukar Sharif Ali, 26, was attacked outside the Rolling Stock bar in Hackney at about 06:30...

08.11.2019

Police confirm 39 bodies found in Essex lorry are Vietnamese

All 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex were Vietnamese, police have said. The victims were found in a container on an industrial estate last week and were initially thought to be Chinese. But Essex Police said it was now in “direct contact with a number of...

02.11.2019

Orpington crash: 1 killed, 15 injured and 1 arrested

One person died and 15 were injured in a crash involving two buses and a car in south-east London. The driver of the car has been arrested over the collision on Sevenoaks Road in Orpington, on Thursday night. One person was pronounced dead at the scene and 15 people were...

01.11.2019

Police office hit by car in Tottenham

A police officer has been hit by a car which had been pulled over in an “intelligence led stop” in Tottenham. The vehicle was stopped by armed police in White Hart Lane at about 11:30 GMT and struck the officer when it was driven off “at speed”, the Met said....

29.10.2019

39 bodies found in lorry container said to be ‘Chinese nationals’

The 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry container in Essex were Chinese nationals, sources have said. Detectives are continuing to question the vehicle’s 25-year-old driver, who has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Officers in Northern Ireland have raided two houses and the National Crime Agency said it was working...

24.10.2019

UK’s most wanted man jailed for life

Shane O’Brien, one of the world’s most wanted men, who went on the run for three-and-a-half years after murdering 21-year-old Josh Hanson in Eastcote, has been jailed for life. An Old Bailey judge sentenced O’Brien on Wednesday, 23 October and recommended he spend at least 26 years in prison. The Judge...

23.10.2019