All news on the topic: East London

A barrister set to defend an individual accused of fire-bombing Sir Keir Starmer’s house has been fined after he was found drinking brandy in his car during a trial’s lunch break.

Two Metropolitan Police officers have been dismissed for gross misconduct following the strip search of a 15-year-old Black girl.

Three men have been jailed at the Old Bailey for plotting to kill a former cage fighter who was convicted of Britain’s largest ever cash robbery.

Errol Woodger, 38, has been convicted of stealing a 50-year-old amputee, Marc Allen’s Mercedes and running him over with it outside his home in Erith, south-east London.

Tommy Taylor-Mclean, seven months, died on the first day of the trip to St Lucia, when he fell out of bed and developed a bleed on the brain, East London Coroner’s Court was told today

There are some missing persons cases which defy logic and lead detectives to a trail for clues which takes them well beyond everyday police work. One such case is that of Greek National Ioannis Oikonomopoulos.

A 20-year-old man has been stabbed to death in east London.

A criminal mastermind behind Britain’s biggest armed robbery was shot in the kitchen of his luxury home after getting out of prison, the Old Bailey has heard.

Joan Kathleen Turnell kept her daughter Tracey’s dead body in their shared flat in Leyton for over a year before she was discovered, inquest told.

Armed cops who swarmed a 13-year-old boy after his water pistol was mistaken for a real gun have been cleared of wrongdoing by the police watchdog.

The neighbour to an East London house which was destroyed in an explosion last night says it was a ‘miracle’ no one in his property was hurt.

A fatal shooting in Sydenham has left one man dead and two others injured.

Four men have been arrested after nearly 400kg of cocaine was found on a fishing boat off the Kent coast.

A man was shot dead in East London today, according to police. Officers were called to reports of an injured man on Linton Road, Barking, at around 4:35 am.

An explosion near the O2 Arena which sparked bomb fears was staged by a convicted child abuser for a bizarre film stunt, it has been claimed.

A planning application from 2023 shows the building in Dagenham, East London, was covered in “non-compliant” cladding and campaigners have demanded to know how such a fire could happen more than seven years Grenfell

The LFB reposted an alarming video of black smoke billowing out of a 43-storey tower block at New Providence Wharf, a residential and commercial development area in Blackwall