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A driver who killed one man and injured four others during a drunken spree in London’s West End on Christmas Day has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 37 years. Anthony Gilheaney, 32, was found guilty in December of murder, attempted murder, intent to cause serious injury, and grievous bodily […]

A convicted sex offender, who became the focus of a nationwide manhunt after being accidentally released from prison, has received a 26-week jail sentence for assaulting two police officers by punching and biting them. Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, a 24-year-old asylum seeker from Algeria, gained widespread attention in November when it was revealed that he had been […]

An American man has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 16 years after being convicted of murdering his intermittently involved girlfriend in her residence in southeast London. Joshua Michals, 26, fatally stabbed 31-year-old Zhe Wang, a fellow student at Goldsmiths University, in her Manor Park flat during March 2024. Wang, a […]

Significant disruption is affecting all train services between Euston station and Watford Junction due to a fire in north London. Approximately 60 firefighters are working to control the blaze at a commercial property located on Regent’s Park Road in Chalk Farm, according to the London Fire Brigade. Currently, half of the single-story structure is engulfed […]

The dismissal of a bus driver for assaulting a thief who had stolen a necklace from a female passenger has been deemed “shameful and unjust” by shadow justice minister Kieran Mullan, who has initiated a petition for his reinstatement. Mark Hehir testified at a tribunal that he acted in self-defense while operating the 206 bus […]

A former educational mentor was sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually exploiting five at-risk teenage girls who sought his guidance at school. Emem Udaw, 51, engaged in inappropriate contact with the girls between 2002 and 2005 while employed at Holland Park School in Kensington, west London. He touched them in private areas, compelled […]

Authorities have revealed that a man faces an additional 15 charges, which include sexual assault, voyeurism, and producing indecent images of minors, according to the Metropolitan Police. Vincent Chan, a 45-year-old resident of Stanhope Avenue in Finchley, was formally charged on Thursday with one count of sexual assault, 11 counts of voyeurism, and three counts […]

A judge has ruled that a charity’s legal challenge regarding regulations permitting transgender individuals to access single-sex facilities at the swimming ponds in Hampstead Heath cannot advance in the High Court. The organization Sex Matters initiated legal proceedings against the City of London Corporation, the managing authority of the men’s, women’s, and mixed bathing ponds […]

A total of nine new blue plaques will be erected throughout London to commemorate individuals who have significantly influenced the city’s development. Among those being honored are the late Sir Laurence Olivier, a distinguished actor; filmmaker Jill Craigie; Brigadier Dudley Clarke, a military strategist from World War Two; and journalist Duse Mohamed Ali. Additionally, anti-racism […]

A bus operator in London has lost his job after pursuing a thief and knocking him out, as determined by a tribunal. Mark Hehir, who claimed during the hearing that the community viewed him as a “hero,” was at the wheel of a Metroline bus on route 206, which connects Wembley and Maida Vale in […]