London crime - Page 3

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

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.

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.

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.”

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.”