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Man, woman and child die after falling from high-rise block of flats in south London
May 29, 2026Sam Corbishley Published May 29, 2026 2:07pm Updated May 29, 2026 4:49pm A child, woman and man have all died after falling from a high-rise block of flats in south London. Emergency services were called to reports that people had plunged from height in Churchyard Row, Elephant & Castle, at around 7.30am on Wednesday. Paramedics […]
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Mystery man smashes up £200,000 Aston Martin and sprays ‘cheater’ over it
May 29, 2026Brooke Davies Published May 29, 2026 10:57am Updated May 29, 2026 11:46am To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A £200,000 Aston Martin was destroyed in a golf club car park after a vandal smashed the windows and spray-painted ‘CHEATER’ on the bonnet. A […]
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Met PC ‘killed pregnant woman in crash while doing 80mph on wrong side of road’
May 28, 2026Sam Corbishley Published May 28, 2026 5:19pm Updated May 28, 2026 5:19pm A Met Police officer was doing around 80mph while driving on the wrong side of a 30mph road moments before a crash which killed a pregnant woman, a court heard. Mariam Ahmed, 38, died after her Volkswagen Polo was involved in a high-speed […]
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Inside the Met Police’s £750 million tech force and its battle to use AI
May 28, 2026A battle at the heart of London’s crime scene is brewing. But it’s not between gangs, it’s the Mayor and the Metropolitan Police butting heads. An ever-tech-savvy Scotland Yard has made a £50million deal with AI company Palantir to speed up criminal investigations. If a contract isn’t signed, the Met has warned it will have […]
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Homes evacuated after man claims he had ‘access to explosives’ in London
May 28, 2026Brooke Davies Published May 28, 2026 12:46pm Updated May 28, 2026 1:44pm Homes on a London street were evacuated after a man claiming to have access to a bomb fell from a window. Police were called to Stanstead Road in Catford last night after a resident said he had access to explosives. Officers deployed tear […]
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Night Tube predator who sexually assaulted sleeping women is jailed
May 27, 2026Sam Corbishley Published May 27, 2026 1:49pm Updated May 27, 2026 2:45pm A predator who prowled the Night Tube system targeting women who had fallen asleep has finally been caught. Salman Yousaf, 46, was already in prison in 2024 when the Met Police tipped off colleagues in the British Transport Police (BTP) about his identity […]
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Man accused of killing judge’s daughter and blowing up home denies having ‘short fuse’
May 26, 2026A man accused of stabbing to death his girlfriend and blowing up their home has claimed has claimed he suffered racist abuse, alleging her judge father named a black fish after him, a court heard. Clifton George, 45, stabbed to death charity worker Annabel Rook, 46, at their home in Dumont Road, Stoke Newington, north […]
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Stepmum who killed daughter, five, in scalding hot bath found guilty nearly 50 years later
May 26, 2026To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A drug dealer-turned-award-winning probation officer has been convicted of killing her five-year-old stepdaughter by scalding her in a hot bath. Janice Nix, now 67, forced Andrea Bernard into the bath at home in Thornton Heath, south London, […]
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Teenager stabbed at ‘TikTok gathering’ in London’s Clapham Common
May 25, 2026A 17-year-old has been stabbed and nine people have been arrested after a crowd of teenagers gathered in Clapham, south London. Met Police were called to Clapham Common on Friday as fighting broke out at the ‘unauthorised gathering’, which had been promoted on TikTok. Footage from the event shows people punching one another and attacking […]
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Man, 60, dies eight days after street assault with murder investigation launched
May 23, 2026Sam Corbishley Published May 23, 2026 5:39pm Updated May 23, 2026 5:39pm A 60-year-old man has died more than a week after he was taken to hospital following an assault in north-west London. Michalis Kyriacou was found with severe injuries by officers on patrol in Chippenham Road, Maida Vale, at 2.40am on May 14. He died from […]
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