Bradley Peek seriously injured the driver who was left with damaged heart, fractures to seven ribs and a punctured lung.

Armed attacker who tore bus driver's heart tracked down with facial tech

Fatiha Sabrin died in hospital on December 11, 2021 after the dangerous gas phosphine seeped from a nearby flat, it is claimed.

Girl, 11, who died after being gassed in bedbug poison case named

The Metropolitan Police has defended not informing the NHS when officers cautioned a paediatrician for indecent exposure.

Police defend not telling NHS about children's doctor flashing arrest

Protest outside the office of the Tower Hamlets Labour Party in Bethnal Green, London, in an area represented by Labour MP Rushanara Ali, in protest at Labours stance on the Israel-Hamas war. Picture date: Thursday November 16, 2023.

At the weekend the offices of Labour MPs Rushanara Ali, Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry were targeted following last week's ceasefire vote.

Protest organiser denies intimidating MP and defends freedom of expression

The Met Police have said flying the flag alone does not constitute a criminal offence. 

Palestinian flags removed from lampposts after concerns raised with Met Police

Handout photo courtesy of Boyana Damyanova of rubbish mounting up in Tower Hamlets, east London. Rubbish piling up on the streets of the borough in east London will be collected after waste service workers and street cleaners agreed to a pay deal offered by the local council. Picture date: Monday September 25, 2023.

About 200 waste service workers and street cleaners had walked out on September 18 following a pay dispute between Unite the Union and Tower Hamlets Council.

Piles of rubbish to be cleared as Tower Hamlets strike ends with pay deal

Video shows black bags and cardboard boxes piled high on street corners as a result of industrial action described as 'disappointing' by the council.

Mountain of rubbish piles up on London's streets with no end in sight to strikes

Tragedy was narrowly avoided after a ceiling collapsed onto an east London nursery school - just hours after children had gone home.

'I could have lost my whole family': Roof of nursery school collapses 

Undated handouts photo issued by the Metropolitan Police of Erik Feld, who has been found guilty at the Old Bailey for battering Ranjith Kankanamalage to death with a claw hammer in a darkened cemetery. Erik, 37, hid in the shadows behind a monument in east London before launching himself on unarmed Ranjith in the early hours of the morning, the Old Bailey heard. Issue date: Thursday March 23, 2023.

Undated handouts photo issued by the Metropolitan Police of Ranjith Kankanamalage, who was savagely beaten to death in a homophobic attack. Erik Feld has been found guilty at the Old Bailey for battering Ranjith Kankanamalage to death with a claw hammer in a darkened cemetery. Erik, 37, hid in the shadows behind a monument in east London before launching himself on unarmed Ranjith in the early hours of the morning, the Old Bailey heard. Issue date: Thursday March 23, 2023.

Erik Feld ambushed and killed Ranjith Kankanamalage in an east London cemetery.

Man with 'depraved fantasy' to kill stranger jailed over cemetery hammer attack 

Around 100 officers were sent to the building, which had been taken over by the Autonomous Winter Shelter group.  

Police defend 'heavy-handed' eviction of homeless people from unofficial shelter

Robin Ibrahim, 28, lured his former partner to him by promising to pay back a substantial amount of money he owed her before attacking her. 

Man jailed for 25 years for stabbing ex-girlfriend 18 times in 'savage attack'

Ranjith "Roy" Kankanamalage. Police are offering a £20,000 reward for information as they continue to investigate a suspected homophobic murder in a historic east London cemetery.

Ranjith Kankanamalage, 50, was bludgeoned to death with a hammer in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park.

Man with ‘deep interest’ in extreme violence accused of London cemetery murder

The traumatised girl was bitten several times on the hand and arm.

Dog attack leaves schoolgirl with broken bones

Detectives want to urgently identify a man caught on camera following the attack in Tower Hamlets on Tuesday afternoon.

'Unusual' police appeal after stabbing near Tower of London 

The 18-year-old was taken to hospital after being attacked in Poplar. He was reportedly involved in a fight with a group of people a short time earlier.

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