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.
As homicide and violent crime – including knife, gun, and sex attacks – continue to rise in the UK, more than 90 percent of recorded crimes are not ending in a charge, new figures reveal.
London’s Metropolitan Police fails to record over 94,500 reported crimes each year, representing 10.5 percent of all reported crimes, according to the policing and fire services watchdog.
A 17-year-old girl has been stabbed to death in broad daylight on Thursday in South London.
Former UK ambassador to the U.S. Sir Christopher Meyer was brutally beaten in one of London’s major railway stations.
Britain’s Poundland discount chain has announced it will stop selling kitchen knives in all of its stores to help tackle soaring youth violence. The company, whose stores have been a major fixture on UK high streets since 1990, is the
Shibbir Ahmed, Shamrat Hussain, and Forid Farhad have been handed jail sentences for the shooting of four people at a children’s playground in Sadiq Khan’s London.
A senior Metropolitan Police officer has said that the weapons used in stabbings have got bigger, the injuries worse, and the attacks more “feral” in the past five years as London’s violent crime spree continues.
More than 30,000 children are believed to be in gangs in the UK, as the number of 10- to 15-year-olds being treated for stab wounds has increased by 69 percent since 2013.
A 22-year-old American tourist was raped just yards from one of London’s most iconic tourist attractions, Trafalgar Square.
An 18-year-old male has suffered possibly “life-changing” injuries after being attacked with a knuckleduster and sprayed with a noxious substance and two males, including a 15-year-old boy, were stabbed over the weekend in London.
The Metropolitan Police has launched its 75th murder inquiry for 2018 whilst London is in the grips of a crime wave.
There have been three stabbings in broad daylight and seven arrests in dawn raids on an organised drug-trafficking gang in one 24-hour period in Sadiq Khan’s London.
There is set to be an “unprecedented rise” in gang violence and knife crime in London this summer because children are out of school, a report has warned.
London Police dealt with an average of 60 moped muggings a day last year, a 50 per cent surge in this form of crime in just one year under Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Three people are in hospital Thursday after a triple shooting in south London Wednesday night, and the Metropolitan Police gang-crime unit has launched an investigation.
A female Australian journalist and her cameraman were mugged by two masked cyclists while the broadcast was being beamed to Channel Seven’s Sydney control room.
London crime gangs are becoming more organised, ruthless, and are increasingly driven by illegal drugs profit, with some gangs forming alliances the way businesses sell franchises.
A one-year-old boy is in a critical condition after he and his mother were stabbed in Feltham, London, where police told neighbours to lock their doors and windows after the attack.
British comedian Michael McIntyre was robbed by two men on a moped who smashed his car windows in with a hammer whilst he was waiting to pick his sons up from school.
London’s deadly crime wave is continuing, with a man “shot in the face” in a double gun attack, a woman “slashed in the face”, and an attempted knife murder in a weekend of horrific violence. For the second time in
Police are investigating a shocking knife attack in South London where a man brandished a foot-long blade on a busy high street.
The nephew of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has admitted taking a four-inch knife to a London nightclub following the royal wedding as he was fearful of rocketing levels of violent crime in the capital.
A gang of hooded thugs has “slashed” a 17-year-old boy with a sword as walked home from college in east London.
Sadiq Khan has insisted he has “done nothing wrong” in relation to violence and knife crime as London Mayor, despite a crime wave accelerating massively under his leadership.
Britain has been told to scrap its “racialised” war on youth violence after an investigation accused the nation of breaching human rights law with police use of an anti-gangs database featuring predominantly black, male suspects. Amnesty International called on the
British voters are more concerned about crime than at any point since 2011, with the issue being one of the most widely cited concerns for people in London, a new poll has revealed.
A woman has suffered serious injuries after being repeatedly stabbed by a man police believe may have been lingering near her block of flats for days.
A man was stabbed on a busy rush hour train on Wednesday morning at Stratford International Station in Sadiq Khan’s London.
Hospitals in Mayor Sadiq Khan’s London resemble those in a war zone, a senior surgeon working to save victims of the capital’s surging violent crime wave has said.
Police have arrested an elderly homeowner on suspicion of murder after a suspected armed burglar was stabbed to death during a break-in at a house in London.
