Florence Eshalomi – breaking through barriers
Florence Eshalomi grew up in the “barrier block” on Brixton’s Somerleyton estate. Today she represents the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark on the Greater London Assembly. On the day after the biggest...
View ArticleLoughborough Junction fly-tipper’s van to be crushed
Caught on camera: Fly-tipper Mohammed Nadeem Lambeth council is appealing to residents to report fly-tipping as a fly-tipper who dumped a van-load of old furniture in Styles Gardens, Loughborough...
View Article£10,000 reward offer over shot at police
Kojo Kyei-Bamfo Police have offered a £10,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and prosecution of Kojo Kyei-Bamfo, who is wanted in connection with an incident in south London where a...
View ArticleBrixton man charged with firearms offences
The Metropolitan Police said today that Brixton man, Dean Headman-Williams, 34, of Rattray Road, is one of four people charged with firearms offences after an operation by officers from the Trident and...
View ArticlePolice seek woman after £5,000 Brixton market theft
CCTV image of the woman police wish to speak to Police investigating a theft from an elderly woman in Brixton have issued a CCTV image of a woman they wish to speak to. On Thursday 21 July at about...
View ArticlePolice seek three over shooting
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View ArticlePolice seek help to identify robbery assailant
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View ArticlePolice seek help with Brixton stabbing
Police in Brixton are appealing for information and witnesses after a 25-year-old man was stabbed in an unprovoked attack. Police were called by the ambulance service shortly before midnight on Sunday...
View ArticlePolice seek witnesses to Brixton attack
Police are are appealing for information and witnesses after a man was punched in the head in an unprovoked attack near the Ritzy in Brixton on Saturday night (24 September) at about 11.30. They say...
View ArticlePolice probe Tulse Hill shooting
Police are appealing for information and witnesses after a shooting on the Tulse Hill Estate. Just before 10pm on Monday night (26 September) police were called to a report of a group of males with a...
View ArticleSentence due in Jerrell Elie case
Jerrell Elie Stockwell man Nathan Bell, 30, is due to be sentenced today (21 October) for the manslaughter of 17-year-old Jerrell Elie of Camberwell. A car he was driving crushed the teenager to death...
View ArticleAcre Lane traders hit by break-ins
Traders on Acre Lane have been hit by a wave of burglaries. Khamsa at number 140 and the recently opened Knife restaurant have suffered break-ins. Opus Café, at number 89, has been hit twice. A hair...
View ArticlePolice seek witnesses after 18-year-old run down and stabbed in Brixton
Detectives investigating last night’s stabbing in Brixton – which left the 18-year-old victim in a critical condition – are appealing for witnesses and information. Police were called at around 6.15pm...
View ArticleBowie memorial attacked
Police cars at the scene Police were called and one arrest made in the early hours of this morning after vandals attacked tributes at the David Bowie memorial at the side of Morleys on two occasions....
View ArticleBrixton police pioneer knife crime project
Deputy London Mayor Sophie Linden (centre) with the Brixton Divert team London’s deputy mayor for policing, Sophie Linden, visited Brixton police station in January to check on a pioneering project to...
View ArticleSuspended sentence for PC who assaulted suspect in Brixton
A police officer who forcibly pushed a man’s head into a wall while he was trying to arrest him in Brixton was today (3 February) given a three-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay £1,000 by...
View ArticleSix-year sentence for attack on Brixton pensioners
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View ArticleNew appeal on tenth anniversary of Billy Cox murder
Bill Cox’s sister reads a statement from his mother (left) at the memorial created by local residents after he was shot Ten years after the murder of local teenager Billy Cox, his mother and police are...
View ArticleLambeth seeks views of Portuguese community
Lambeth council is inviting members of the local Portuguese community and others to a meeting tomorrow (25 February) give it their views on employment, housing, education, crime and other issues. The...
View ArticlePolice seek witnesses to Brixton attack
Police are are appealing for information and witnesses after a man was punched in the head in an unprovoked attack near the Ritzy in Brixton on Saturday night (24 September) at about 11.30. They say...
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