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.”
Ramanodge Umathallegadoo, 50, has been arrested after Sana Muhammad, 35, was shot in her kitchen in front of her five children with a crossbow at her home in Ilford, London, Monday.
A young man is in “critical” condition after being stabbed in a north London Costa Coffee in broad daylight.
A 98-year-old decorated Second World War hero is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after a “brutal and senseless” robbery.
London Children are most at risk of being stabbed as they leave school, new research indicates, prompting calls for new measures to protect youngsters.
Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said that it could take a decade to solve London’s knife crime epidemic after the capital saw its fourth stabbing in five days.
Children as young as nine are carrying knives and 69,000 a year are wounded by blades as areas turn into a “Wild West” thanks to the UK’s violent crime wave, a senior police officer has said.
The head of London police and other senior officers have backed calls for police to focus on real crimes rather than using resources recording “non-crime” hate incidents, offensive comments about women, and other “hate crimes.”
London Police have warned of dangerous motorbike and quad bike gangs setting off on huge Halloween “ride outs” to terrorise the capital’s population.
A violent London gang which terrorised businesses with a fake handgun, hammer, and samurai sword in a campaign of “frightening armed robberies” has been jailed.
A teenager has been stabbed to death in South London on Monday evening in suspected gang-related “hit.”
A farther and community activist has been allegedly beaten and stabbed to death by a gang on his London estate after reportedly confronting local drug dealers during London’s violent crime wave.
A man has been arrested for dangerous driving after a Mercedes carrying a gunshot victim crashed into pedestrians and parked cars in West London.
The number of times London’s Metropolitan Police resorted to using force has surged 79 percent in just months, as the capital’s crime wave takes hold.
Two young men have been arrested after four police officers were attacked in London, with two suffering stab wounds and one in hospital in a serious condition.
There has been mass panic and a “stampede” after a man was stabbed in broad daylight on a London train, by an attacker allegedly screaming “I will kill you” whilst brandishing a 12-inch blade.
A new London police ‘Violent Crime Taskforce’ has had a busy debut few months, making a massive 1,350 arrests since the team was formed in April.
A teenager has died and two more injured after a deadly shooting in east London, sparking a murder probe and continuing London’s bloody crime wave.
A man has been slain with a “large knife” in London after battling in the street with a man who had allegedly attempted to steal his phone.
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced a new “public health” approach to tackling violent crime in the capital, whilst admitting the surge in violent crime in the city will not be solved “overnight”.
As Mayor Sadiq Khan’s popularity plunged this week amidst an epidemic of violence in the capital, new figures from London’s Air Ambulance revealed gun and knife casualties now make up the largest share of emergencies.
The London Mayor is to shift 122 officers from transport to a violent crime unit, as the capital’s crime wave continues.
The London Mayor’s approval rating has slumped to its lowest level on record after a summer of surging violence in the capital, crashing to just a fifth of its previous level a few months ago.
With soaring rates of “high harm” crime, falling arrest rates, and a shrinking proportion of crimes resulting in a charge, police forces in Britain are finding it “increasingly difficult” to keep the public safe, an official report has warned.
A young woman in East London has been gunned down in broad daylight as the capital’s violent crime epidemic rolls on.
The shoplifter has allegedly attacked and injured three people have injured in a suspected acid attack in West London after they challenged him for stealing.
The Home Secretary is pushing to significantly expand police ‘stop and search’ after Theresa May rolled back the practice before a dramatic rise in violent crime.
The head of London police has been forced to deny parts of the capital are becoming “no-go areas” after two shocking recent incidents where the public was filmed cheering as officers were assaulted on the job.
A think tank has called for an increase in police ‘stop and search’ in London to tackle the crime epidemic after it revealed that a gun is shot in the capital up to every six hours — despite the UK having some of the strictest personal firearms ownership laws in the world.
Two Metropolitan Police officers were physically assaulted by a “hostile crowd” at an East London McDonald’s on Monday night after responding to a call for urgent assistance at the restaurant.
Despite a controversial crackdown on crime and poor weather, the number of people arrested at the London Notting Hill Carnival surpassed last year’s total, with the multicultural celebration marred by knife violence and attacks on police officers.
More than 130 people were arrested on the opening day of the London Notting Hill carnival, police said, reporting that knife-wielding thugs, drug dealers, and sex attackers had descended on its traditionally peaceful ‘family day’.
A man has been stabbed to death in front of an anti-knife crime poster in South London as the capital’s violent crime wave rolls on..
A suspect was arrested Monday morning after a woman in her sixties was stabbed as she walked past a children’s playground and a woman in her fifties was stabbed, in two incidents in East London.
A mother and daughter remain in intensive care in a London hospital after being savagely attacked with a hammer in what has been described as an unprovoked act of violence in New Eltham, south-east London on Sunday.
Police failed to solve 97 percent of moped crime in London in the past year, with the proportion of solved crimes falling as the city is gripped by a crime wave, new data has revealed.
A Turkish kebab shop worker from London has been charged and remanded in custody after he allegedly sexually assaulted a child in the bathroom of a McDonald’s in an English seaside town.
A hero lorry driver swerved across the road to block the escape of two violent London moped criminals, moments after they attacked and injured a policeman.
A pair of violent thieves who used mopeds to “target elderly victims”, including a man in his 50s who was stabbed over a bible, has been jailed for 32 years amid London’s ongoing crime wave.
An 18-year-old male is in critical condition in hospital after being shot outside a London overground station in East London in what is suspected to be a gangland attack.
