Detectives investigating an allegation of rape in Hackney are releasing an e-fit image of a man they need to identify. The incident happened between 16:00hrs and 17:00hrs on Wednesday, 2 October 2024 at Banister House in Homerton High Street. It is alleged that a man forced a 13-year-old girl to get into his car and took her to a block of flats where he raped her.
PC Tom Devine, attached to the Met Operations Roads and Transport unit, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 20 January charged with one count of sexual assault by touching.
Police are investigating after three people were injured in potentially related shooting incidents in Hackney, E9. Police were called at 22:35hrs on Saturday, 11 January to reports of gun shots being fired in two separate incidents in Homerton.
Two men have been convicted of murder following a Metropolitan Police investigation. Ben Laing, 23 (22.05.00), of De Brome Road, Feltham and Duarra Abdi, 19 (27.02.04), of Western Avenue, Acton were both convicted of murder, following the fatal stabbing of Tyreece Scott in Hounslow, west London, last year.
Officers are appealing to the public to help find a vulnerable man missing from north west London. Police are concerned about the welfare of 34-year-old Siroosh Hussain who has been missing for more than 24 hours.
An investigation has been launched after the fatal stabbing of a teenage boy on a bus this afternoon. Police were called at 14:28hrs on Tuesday, 7 January to reports of a stabbing on a bus in Woolwich, SE18
Five teenage boys have been charged with robbery following theft of a large number of mobile phones. Police were called at around 14:35hrs on Sunday, 5 January to reports a group had entered a shop in Brent Cross Shopping Centre before stealing around 50 mobile phones.
Two men charged in connection with the stabbing of a journalist on Queensmere Road, Wimbledon on 29 March have arrived into the UK on a flight from Romania. The pair were arrested on 17 December at Heathrow airport and were met by officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, which is leading the investigation into the assault.
Parvez Patel, 34, (02.02.1990), an estate agent, of Empress Avenue, Ilford, was swiftly arrested at the scene after neighbours heard the woman’s screams and called police. The attack took place late on the evening of Monday, 29 January, when Patel booked a sex worker and arrived at her home in Westminster.
An investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct into the actions of armed officers who arrested a child who had been playing with a water pistol has found they acted reasonably and correctly.
There was no evidence the child was treated different due to his ethnicity or of adultification during the incident in Buxted Road, Hackney, in July 2023.
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A thorough investigation by the Met sexual offences team has seen a man who took advantage of a young woman after a night out in south-east London jailed. Craig Dorney, 35 (22.01.89) of Duncombe Hill, Lewisham, was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court to seven years in prison on Thursday, 12 December for rape and two counts of sexual assault.
A motorcyclist who died in a collision with a van in Enfield has been named as Geary Wilson
Police investigating an attempted murder in Peckham are appealing for the public’s help to identify the suspect
Police are increasingly concerned for the welfare of a man who has been missing for two weeks. Orhan Ekren, 48, was last seen in the vicinity of Camden Market
A man has been convicted of attempted murder after swift work by officers saw him arrested just hours after the horrific attack. Isakov Akhmad 42, (03.09.82), of Thorogood Gardens, E15, was found guilty of seriously assaulting another man with a dumbbell.
A man has appeared at the Old Bailey charged with attempted murder following an incident on a bus in Brixton and the later death of the victim. The Met’s Specialist Crime Command launched an investigation following an incident involving two men on a route 59 bus in Brixton Road, SW9, at around 10:20hrs on Thursday, 21 November. One of the men sadly died from his injuries.
Two men have been sentenced to a total of 44 years for murdering a man and seriously injuring his brother. Shane Canavan, 23 and his half-brother Joshua Langley, 29, both of Greyfields Close, Purley, were sentenced to life with a minimum of 23 years and 21 years in prison respectively for murdering 20-year-old Bradley Hutchins and seriously injuring his 19-year-old brother Calum.
An exhaustive investigation by the Met has seen a sexual predator who targeted a lone woman in Stratford jailed. Sobirjon Boltaev, 26 (12.04.98) from Lawton Road, Leyton, was sentenced on Friday, 29 November at Snaresbrook Crown Court to three years' imprisonment for two counts of sexual assault on a woman.
Four men have been sentenced to a total of 76 years in prison for their part in the killing of a 43-year-old man in Hounslow
Met detectives have brought a historic case to justice by seeing a man jailed for committing multiple sexual offences against a teenage girl almost 30 years ago. Colin Moore, 58 (04.06.66) of Grove Lane, Southwark was sentenced to 15 years in prison for four of rape and five of indecent assault against the same girl, now aged 41.
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