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Anthony France is Crime Correspondent for the Evening Standard and is based in London

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Anthony France is Crime Correspondent for the Evening Standard and is based in London

<p>Operation Vigilant officers stop and search two men in Soho </p>
Crime

‘Poison’ vapes alert as drink spiking initiative launched in West End

The Standard went out on patrol with Met officers who discovered 100 substances being used on victims like TV presenter Kate McCann

11 May 2024
<p>Police in Edgware after a woman in her 60s was stabbed to death</p>
Crime

Woman stabbed to death in Edgware ‘by man who tried to rob her purse’

A suspect, 22, has been arrested in connection with the case and is being questioned by detectives

10 May 2024
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World

Indian woman throws son, 6, into canal infested with crocodiles

The boy’s body was found covered in bite marks, and his parents have been arrested

9 May 2024
<p>Jack Hague died in Corfield Street at 8.20pm on Sunday</p>
Crime

Mum pays tribute to ‘blue-eyed boy’ killed in London street fight

Jack Hague, 38, was one of three men murdered last weekend

8 May 2024
<p>A crime scene remains on Millicent Grove in Palmers Green, Enfield</p>
Crime

Three stabbed to death in bank holiday weekend violence in London

Detectives are probing separate fatal stabbings in Palmers Green, Waltham Forest and Bethnal Green

7 May 2024
<p>Police try to stop protesters forming a blockade around a coach in Peckham (Yui Mok/PA)</p>
London

Police quiz 45 people after asylum seekers' coach transfer blocked

A Home Office contractor has been detained for a racially aggravated public order offence

3 May 2024
<p>Laurence Fox (Jordan Pettitt/PA)</p>
Crime

Laurence Fox reported by TV star to police over ‘upskirting’ picture

Reclaim politician criticised over ‘disgusting’ post featuring paparazzi photograph of TV personality Narinder Kaur

2 May 2024
<p>Armed officer on duty in Whitehall</p>
Crime

Two officers in Wayne Couzens unit facing sack over ‘racist messages’

PCs Thomas Murray and Colin Stevens are alleged to have breached professional standards

2 May 2024
<p>Daniel Anjorin was killed by a man who went on a rampage wielding a sword</p>
Crime

Man, 36, charged with murder of boy who died in Hainault sword attack

It comes after the death of the secondary school pupil Daniel Anjorin

1 May 2024
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Crime

Boy killed in Hainault sword attack had 'such a great future ahead'

Daniel went to the same school as Nottingham attack victim Grace O’Malley-Kumar

1 May 2024
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Crime

Met chief says police officer nearly lost hand in Hainault rampage

Man, 36, detained on suspicion of murder after fatal sword attack

1 May 2024
<p>A man was seen carrying a samurai sword at the scene in Hainault</p>
Crime

Boy, 14, dies and four others injured in sword rampage in Hainault

A man, 36, was arrested after multiple people were stabbed after a van was driven into a building in a suburban street

30 Apr 2024
<p>Admiral Duncan pub</p>
Crime

London victims of Soho pub nail bombing remembered 25 years on

Andrea Dykes died with two friends John Light and Nik Moore at the Admiral Duncan

30 Apr 2024
<p>The Metropolitan Police</p>
Crime

Met Police officer sacked for using drug-laced vape with friends

PC David Burgess accepts he was ‘negligent’ to try an e-cigarette containing cannabis oil

30 Apr 2024
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London

Victims' families blast Sadiq Khan over crime

Shock figures reveal 38% increase in knife offences since Mayor took office

29 Apr 2024
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Crime

Police investigate 'attempted kidnap' of Jewish man in Stamford Hill

The man was told to ‘get in boot of a car’ as he walked along north London street

28 Apr 2024
<p>Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein (Alamy/PA)</p>
World

Harvey Weinstein in hospital after rape conviction overturned

Disgraced Weinstein is facing a retrial over claims he forced himself on two women

27 Apr 2024
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UK

British tourist fights for life after horror shark attack in Caribbean

Peter Smith, from Berkhamsted, sustained injuries to his hand, thigh and stomach

27 Apr 2024
<p>Om Fahad whose real name is Ghufran Sawadi</p>
World

Iraqi influencer Om Fahad shot dead by motorbike assassin

The TikTok star shared videos of herself dancing to pop music in form-hugging clothes

27 Apr 2024
<p>Many walruses live on Svalbard, Norway (Alamy/PA)</p>
World

Tourist fined for getting too close to Walrus in Norway

Police prosecutor Magnus Rindal Fredriksen said the man was trying to get a ‘good picture’

27 Apr 2024
<p>Woman lays flows at grave of Alexei Navalny</p>
World

Putin probably didn’t order Alexei Navalny’s killing - US report

The Russian president’s arch foe Navalny died in an Arctic prison aged 47

27 Apr 2024