London crime - Page 3

Reports of sexual assault and other sexual crimes on Britain’s railways have nearly doubled over the past five years; however, most cases go unpunished.

The homicide rate in London this year is on course to surpass that of 2018, which had seen the highest level of violent killings in a decade.

Labour’s London mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a pilot programme which would see women who have committed “lower-level, non-violent offences”, such as thieves and shoplifters, avoid jail in favour of receiving mental health and substance abuse support.

Scotland Yard chief Cressida Dick has ruled out issuing tasers to all London Metropolitan officers despite it calls for better police protection after a series of violent attacks on officers.

The number of acid attacks at record levels, having increased over tenfold in six years, with young children among the victims.

A man was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm after a stabbing outside of the Home Office on Thursday.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to expand the police’s powers of stop and search across the country in a bid to tackle the wave of violent, particularly knife-related, crime sweeping the UK.

The child born after pregnant 26-year-old Kelly Mary Fauvrelle was fatally stabbed in Croydon, south London, has died.

A 38-year-old man has been stabbed to death after a fight in a London neighbourhood that one witness described as a “full-on battle”.

U.S. President Donald J Trump has said that the UK’s capital city “needs a new mayor ASAP” after three killings and three non-fatal stabbings in just 24 hours of Sadiq Khan’s London.

The Metropolitan Police Service has made ten arrests after two teen males were killed 12 minutes apart in different parts of London on Friday.

Sadiq Khan has presided over an “alarming hike in violent crime” in the three years since he has become London mayor, according to analysis by the Greater London Assembly Conservatives.

Three men were taken to hospital after a triple shooting on an east London high street on Saturday evening.

The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick, has said that the return of ‘stop and search’ has helped cut crime dramatically in London.

London has faced another night of violence resulting in the killing of one teenager and another left in a critical condition in a double stabbing, while a third man was taken to hospital with a life-threatening condition after being stabbed in a separate attack.

A man has been charged with five counts of attempted murder following a spate of stabbings in the Edmonton area of north London during the last week.

The Metropolitan Police has questioned a 14-year-old boy in relation to six sexual assaults on women that occurred last month in south-east London.

A man in his 30s has died after having his “throat slit” in an argument over cigarettes in East Dulwich, east London, on Sunday.

A teenage boy has been taken to hospital after being stabbed on a bus in Clapham Common, south London.

Half of all knife crime in London is carried out by people aged 19 and under, and three quarters of offenders are from minority ethnic groups, the latest figures show.

Seven people have been arrested and three others rushed to hospital with stab wounds after a brawl broke out at a tram stop in Croydon, south London.

Court of appeal judges have overturned a two-year suspended sentence on a London teen who attacked a car with a large ‘zombie’ knife in broad daylight, ordering he be imprisoned for three and a half years.

The number of drug dealing ‘county lines’ have nearly tripled across the country in one year, while the networks are fueling the rise in London crime.

Official crime figures have revealed a 14 percent jump in the number of homicides recorded in England and Wales, with knife offences hitting the highest level in eight years.

British Transport Police figures have revealed that violent crime on London’s underground has risen by 43 percent in just three years, while the highest increase were weapons offences at 125 percent.

After one 14-year-old was “butchered” in a suspected gang-related murder this week and another victim of the same age suffered life-changing injuries when she was slashed in the face by teenage girls, Labour politicians have again blamed “police cuts” for rising violent crime in London.

Police in London have seen a weekend of violence, with several knife attack victims fighting for their lives while officers opened a murder probe after a woman was found strangled to death in an apartment in the capital’s east.

British police have arrested a suspect in the fatal stabbing of a man in front of his 14-year-old son on a suburban London train.

A man in Blackheath has been repeatedly stabbed in the stomach after two other Londoners were stabbed to death on New Year’s Day.

A man from Tower Hamlets, east London, was rushed to hospital after having ammonia thrown at him — the same day another man in north London was treated after having been attacked with a corrosive substance.

A 21-year-old man is in hospital after having a corrosive substance thrown in his face in northeast London. The attack happened in the small hours of Thursday morning on Stoke Newington High Street, with police saying that the victim also

A London Metropolitan police officer could be charged with a criminal offence after ramming a criminal moped driver.

London’s Metropolitan Police are considering sending officers on patrol in gang-related residential areas, with their guns on show, amid the city’s on-going violent crime wave.

This year is likely to be the worst in nearly a decade for children killed by knife attacks, with 35 already murdered in 2018.

A man filmed attacking a car with a large ‘zombie knife’ on London’s streets has been spared jail, sparking outrage and leading to the case being referred to the Attorney General.

Police have hit back at Labour Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott after she attacked officers for knocking dangerous moped criminals off their bikes, accusing them of acting “above the law.”