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Paedophile jailed for 10 years 
Posted on  12-01-2012 04:07:05 AM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  Crime Desk

Crime Desk
    
A paedophile convicted last week has been jailed for 10 years at Isleworth Crown Court.

Dean Hardy, 52 (16/4/59) was sentenced to eight and a half years each for three counts of indecent assault on a boy under 16 to be ...


  
Predator rapist given "whole life sentence" 
Posted on  12-01-2012 06:08:23 AM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  Crime Desk

Crime Desk

In what is believed to be the first case of its kind, convicted rapist Michael John Roberts has today received a whole life sentence for a series of violent rapes and burglaries, he committed in Southwark during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.

Roberts, ...


  
Sexual predator jailed for assault on schoolgirls 
Posted on  03-02-2012 04:42:33 AM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  Crime Desk

Crime Desk

A 72-year old man who subjected three schoolgirls to a sexual assault has been jailed.

In committing the offence Desmond Hall, 72 (18.1.40) also breached a sexual offences prevention order, and at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday 31 January he was sentenced to 21 ...


  
Met Police and InMidtown set up a pioneering anti-theft operation 
Posted on  02-02-2012 11:51:24 AM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  Paula Planelles Manzanaro

By Paula Planelles Manzanaro

The Metropolitan Police and InMidtown, the Business Improvement District (BID) which represents 560 businesses in Central London,  have created an innovative campaign to reduce the number of theft related crimes in Holborn, Bloomsbury and St Giles.

Local companies ...


  
Nigerian Air Stewardess jailed for coke smuggling 
Posted on  02-02-2012 05:09:20 AM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  Crime Desk

Crime Desk
 
An air stewardess who was caught trying to smuggle a quarter of a million pounds worth of cocaine into the UK has been jailed for five and a half years.


Chinwendu Uwakaonyenma Ogbonnaya, 29, from Lagos in Nigeria had flown into London’s Heathrow ...

  
Murder investigation launched into Turnpike Lane shooting 
Posted on  02-02-2012 01:54:51 AM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  Crime Desk

Crime Desk

The Metropolitan Police have formally launched a murder investigation in what is suspected to have been a professional hit which has resulted in a 32 year old man losing his life.

Police believe they know the identity of the deceased and next of kin ...


  
Cross-dressing criminals rob jewellers of £460,000 
Posted on  02-02-2012 08:58:47 AM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  Crime Desk

Crime Desk

Criminals who wore women's clothes who then proceeded to rob a jewellers of £460,000 in Newham are being sought with images made available by the Metropolitan Police.

On 21 November 2011 at approximately 17:10hrs seven men entered Lasani Jewellers, 65 Plashet Grove, Newham, ...


  
Hackney crack cocaine drugs bust 
Posted on  02-02-2012 08:50:53 AM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  Crime Desk

Crime Desk

The Metropolitan Police officers from Hackney borough's "Operation Bantam", with the assistance of the Territorial Support Group (TSG), have arrested seven people on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.

On Tuesday 31 January and in the early hours ...


  
Image of east London rapist released 
Posted on  01-02-2012 07:56:41 AM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  Crime Desk

Crime Desk          

Detectives investigating a sexual assault on a woman and a rape on another woman have renewed their appeal for information and witnesses, by releasing an e-fit image of one of the suspects.

On Sunday 22 May 2011, between 01:50 and 02:20 hours, ...


  
Turkish gangland shooting in Turnpike Lane 
Posted on  01-02-2012 01:51:01 AM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  Crime Desk

Crime Desk

A thirty year old man believed to be of Turkish origin has been gunned down in a suspected contract killing outside of Turnpike Lane tube station in north-east London.


In what local residents are reporting is an escalation of tensions ...

  
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