A serving Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officer has pleaded guilty to attempting to have sex with an underage girl
Detective Constable Mark Collins, 57, who is attached to the Met’s South Area Command Unit, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, 27 January. He pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to cause/incite a girl aged 13–15 to engage in sexual activity (with penetration) on or before 24 November 2019. He also pleaded […]
A 19-year-old man has been charged with murder after a man died following a collision with a car in Thamesmead three years ago
Kai Kinyanjui, 19 of no fixed address, was arrested on Tuesday, 26 January and charged the following day. He was also charged with perverting the course of justice. He is due to appear at Bexley Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 28 January. The charges relate to an incident on 1 February 2018, when 26-year-old Monzir Mohammed suffered […]
A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment at Wood Green Crown Court after being found guilty of stabbing a 24-year-old through the heart with a pair of scissors
A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment at Wood Green Crown Court today, Tuesday, 26 January, after being found guilty of stabbing a 24-year-old through the heart with a pair of scissors. Ozughan Altun, aged 30 of Dalston Square, Hackney , will have to serve a minimum of 19 years for the murder of Michael […]
The family of a man who was murdered in Colchester last month have described him as a “free spirit” with a big heart who had the ability to “enter a room and brighten it”
Alinjavwa Siwale, 22, was found injured in Affleck Road shortly after 12.15am on Friday 11 December last year. Sadly, he died at the scene. In a statement, his family said: “Our lives have been changed forever. We are heartbroken, still in shock and angry. “Nothing can ever prepare you for the loss of a child. […]
A man has been charged after an officer was injured following a vehicle stop in Notting Hill
Veran Whiskey, 39, Edenvale St, SW6, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 25 January, charged with grievous bodily harm with intent, possession with intent to supply Class A drugs, dangerous driving and possession of criminal property. Officers from the Met’s Territorial Support Group stopped a vehicle at around 16:06hrs on Saturday, […]
Detectives investigating a murder in Brent on 11 January and two linked stabbings have charged a man
Amine Laouar 20 of Oxford Place, NW10, has been charged with the murder of 48-year Leon Street in Neasden Lane North on Monday, 11 January. He has also been charged with the attempted murder of a 32-year-old man in Neasden Lane North on Sunday, 17 January and GBH with intent against a 47-year-old man […]
Detectives investigating the murder of a man in Greenwich have charged a man
Ben Oliver, 23 of Lion Road, Bexleyheath was charged on Wednesday, 20 January with the murder of 74-year-old David Oliver. He will appear in custody at Bromley Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 21 January. Police were called by the London Ambulance Service at 11:52am on Tuesday, 19 January to reports of an injured man inside […]
A man has been charged with murder following the death of a woman in Colchester over the weekend
A woman in her 20s was found unresponsive at an address in Laing Road at around 5.35am on Sunday 17 January.Sadly, despite the efforts of paramedics, she died at the scene. A 21 year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder. Adam Butt, of Laing Road, Colchester, has now been charged with murder and is […]
A robber who pounced on his victim after spotting him withdrawing cash from a post office has been locked up
Police released the image of a man they wanted to speak to after the nasty street attack in Lye and within hours a number of people had got in touch with information that proved vital in identifying Shoaib Iqbal (right) as the robber – even though he’d already tried to change his appearance by […]
Police have released CCTV footage of the moment an elderly pensioner is assaulted and robbed as she waits at a bus stop in Rotherham
The footage, taken at around 1.30pm on 17 November, captures the 89-year-old woman waiting for a bus in Wingfield. The offender, Kirsty Moxon, can be seen scanning the street, before making a sudden grab for the woman’s handbag. Moxon then hit her victim over the back of the head before ripping away her handbag […]
