All news on the topic: East London

A 20-year-old man has been stabbed to death in east London.

A criminal mastermind behind Britain’s biggest armed robbery was shot in the kitchen of his luxury home after getting out of prison, the Old Bailey has heard.

Joan Kathleen Turnell kept her daughter Tracey’s dead body in their shared flat in Leyton for over a year before she was discovered, inquest told.

Armed cops who swarmed a 13-year-old boy after his water pistol was mistaken for a real gun have been cleared of wrongdoing by the police watchdog.

The neighbour to an East London house which was destroyed in an explosion last night says it was a ‘miracle’ no one in his property was hurt.

A fatal shooting in Sydenham has left one man dead and two others injured.

Four men have been arrested after nearly 400kg of cocaine was found on a fishing boat off the Kent coast.

A man was shot dead in East London today, according to police. Officers were called to reports of an injured man on Linton Road, Barking, at around 4:35 am.

An explosion near the O2 Arena which sparked bomb fears was staged by a convicted child abuser for a bizarre film stunt, it has been claimed.

A planning application from 2023 shows the building in Dagenham, East London, was covered in “non-compliant” cladding and campaigners have demanded to know how such a fire could happen more than seven years Grenfell

The LFB reposted an alarming video of black smoke billowing out of a 43-storey tower block at New Providence Wharf, a residential and commercial development area in Blackwall

A man has died after he was stabbed during a ‘fight’ on a residential street in east London.

More than 300 mourners came together at a vigil to pay tribute to teenager Daniel Anjorin, who was killed in a sword attack on his way to school.

Ruwaida Adan, 15, from East London, was strangled by her own headscarf at Capital Karts in Barking when it became caught and the company has now been fined nearly £120,000