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Category Archives: Knife crime
Murdered man’s family in debt after £11,000 GoFundMe scam
A Croydon family already devastated with grief over the murder of a loved one just days before Christmas last year are now outraged after a GoFundMe scam saw a chancer make off with more than £11,000 donated by the public … Continue reading
Surrey Street Market murder: suspect arrested at Gatwick
The Metropolitan Police have made two more arrests in connection with the murder of Rijkaard Siafa, who was attacked in Surrey Street Market last month by a group of men armed with machetes or large kinives. Rammon Mali, 32, of … Continue reading
Man who murdered teenaged wife sentenced to serve 14 years
A court has heard how a “coercive and controlling” husband murdered his 19-year-old wife in their home in Ash Tree Way, Shirley, just months after he moved from India. Sahil Sharma, 24, was jailed on Friday for the murder last … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Knife crime, Shirley North, Shirley South
Tagged Ash Tree Way, Ash Tree Way murder, knife crime, Mehak Sharma, Metropolitan Police, Monks Orchard, murder, Sahil Sharma, Shirley
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1-in-5 Londoners have no idea there’s an election next week
Shocking figures released today show that 20% of Londoners – 1-in-5 – don’t have a Scooby Doo (it’s rhyming slang…) that next Thursday, May 2, is election day in the capital. Among younger Londoners – those under 30 years old … Continue reading
Posted in 2024 London elections, Crime, Housing, Knife crime, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Policing, Sadiq Khan
Tagged 2024 London elections, Antonia Jennings, Centre for London, Conservative, Croydon, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, London Assembly, London Elections, London elections 2024, Mayor Sadiq Khan, Savanta, Tory
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‘Scared’ Surrey Street market traders in calls for more police
Home Office funding for extra policing in Croydon town centre finishes at the end of April, and there’s no plans to increase officer presence on Surrey Street. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The Metropolitan Police will not provide undertakings that they … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Crime, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Jose Joseph, Knife crime, London-wide issues, Policing, Surrey Street
Tagged Jose Joseph, Metropolitan Police, Mitch Carr, Rijkaard Siafa, Superintendent Mitch Carr, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market, Surrey Street Murder
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34-year-old appears in court charged with Surrey Street murder
A man has been charged with the murder of Rijkaard Siafa on Surrey Street last week. David Walcott was charged with murder yesterday and was due to appear at Bromley Magistrates’ Court. Walcott, 34, is from Turle Road, Norbury. He … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Knife crime, Surrey Street
Tagged David Walcott, Drug gangs, knife crime, Metropolitan Police, murder, Rijkaard Siafa, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Murder
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Lambeth man arrested in connection with Surrey Street murder
Detectives investigating the murder of 22-year-old Rijkaard Siafa in Croydon last Friday have today made a second arrest. A 34-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of this morning at an address in Lambeth on suspicion of murder, and … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Knife crime, Surrey Street
Tagged Drug gangs, knife crime, Metropolitan Police, murder, Rijkaard Siafa, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Murder
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Police name Surrey Street murder victim as Rijkaard Siafa
The Metropolitan Police has named the victim of Friday’s murder on Surrey Street as 22-year-old Rijkaard Salu Siafa, from Croydon. Officers continue to support Rijkaard’s family. A 20-year-old man who was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder remains … Continue reading
Murder on Surrey Street Market: police make one arrest
A crime scene remained in place on Fellmonger’s Yard and parts of Surrey Street Market this morning, following the murder in broad daylight yesterday of a 20-year-old man. People on the market at just before 6pm on Friday related seeing … Continue reading
‘Tough on causes of crime’ needs more than a glib throwaway
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Retired barrister and former councillor, JERRY FITZPATRICK, pictured right, offers his insights into an important piece of work conducted on youth crime and safeguarding Speaking as Shadow Home Secretary in 1993, Tony Blair famously promised to be tough … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Education, Health, Jerry Fitzpatrick, Knife crime, London-wide issues, Policing, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Safeguarding Children Partnership, Elianne Andam, Jerry Fitzpatrick, knife crime, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Metropolitan Police, NHS, Serious Youth Violence, youth knife crime
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Teenager pleads not guilty to murder of Elianne Andam
The 17-year-old boy charged with the murder of Elianne Andam outside the Whitgift Centre last September entered a not guilty plea at an Old Bailey hearing this morning. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter. The boy, who … Continue reading
Social initiative has sports club punching above their Wates
A community sports group based in Norbury Park is having its boxing gym fitted out by property maintenance firm Wates as a “social value initiative”. Gloves Not Gunz is a boxing club which aims to prevent and divert young people … Continue reading
Council is offering community groups safer streets grants
The council is offering grants to community groups in New Addington, Shrublands and Croydon town centre for them to provide support to young people at risk of becoming involved in violence and antisocial behaviour. “The funding is for groups that … Continue reading
1-in-4 Croydon police officers off frontline for ‘other duties’
Croydon’s “thin blue line” is being made thinner still due to other demands on policing around the capital. Policing in Croydon is more impacted by having officers assigned to other duties than all-but-one other London borough, official figures show. The … Continue reading
Help police with their enquiries: do the stop and search survey
The Metropolitan Police is seeking the views of Londoners on stop and search through a new survey. The survey asks Londoners what they think about stop and search practises to help inform a charter between local communities and the Met. … Continue reading
Murderers given life sentences for killing of Farhad Khalili
A man and a teenager who ambushed a man in Kingston and stabbed him to death have been given life sentences. The attack was planned by Sean Deery, who was joined by Sebastian Niven, who was aged just 15 at … Continue reading
Youth knife crime review stresses agencies’ powerlessness
It is not difficult to summon up that feeling of absolute hopelessness that occurred on a morning last autumn when you first heard the news that a 15-year-old schoolgirl, Elianne Andam, had been stabbed to death while on her way … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Services, Crime, Croydon Council, Debbie Jones, Health, Knife crime, London-wide issues, Policing, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon murder, Croydon Safeguarding Children Partnerhip, CSCP, Debbie Jones, Elianne Andam, knife crime, London Borough of Croydon, Metropolitan Police, murder, schools, youth knife crime
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Latest CCTV swoop on North End delivers eight more arrests
The Metropolitan Police appear to have abandoned their regular Thursday afternoon appointment with local crims on North End, and after a month of trialling Live Facial Recognition on Croydon’s main shopping street, the force has mixed things up a bit. … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Knife crime, London-wide issues, Policing
Tagged Croydon, knife crime, LFR, Live Facial Recognition, London, Metropolitan Police, North End, Scotland Yard, West Croydon
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International man-hunt for suspect in murder of teen Habibi
An international man-hunt is under way after a prime suspect in the murder of Croydon College student Ilyas Habibi fled the country. Habibi, 17, was stabbed in the neck and killed near Sutton Station in the evening of December 5. … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Knife crime, Policing, Sutton Council
Tagged DCI Mike Nolan, Ilyas Habibi, Metropolitan Police, murder, Sutton, Sutton Station, Sutton Station stabbing
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Croydon man sentenced to life for Canvey Island murder
Jamie Lewis, 25, from Bensham Lane, has been jailed for a minimum of 24 years for the 2023 murder in Canvey Island of Matt Portland. Father-of-two Portland was 42. On Friday, February 3 last year he intervened in a dispute … Continue reading
Posted in Bensham Manor, Crime, Knife crime
Tagged Bensham Lane, Canvey Island, Croydon, Essex, Essex Police, Jamie Lewis, knife crime, Matt Portland, murder, Thornto Heath
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Two suspects in court for ‘brutal’ murder of Michael Afonso
Two men will appear in court today charged with the murder of Michael Afonso in Thornton Heath just before Christmas. Omari Peat, 22, of Southampton Gardens, Mitcham, was arrested on December 24 and released on bail. He was re-arrested on … Continue reading
Pollards Hill teen John Budal is charged with Afonso murder
Nineteen-year-old John Budal, from Pollards Hill, is to appear before a judge at the Central Criminal Court today charged with the murder of Michael Afonso just before Christmas. The investigation into the murder of Michael Patrick Afonso Peixoto, a father … Continue reading
Croydon in 2023: Murder, school closures and Westfield blight
THE YEAR IN REVIEW Part 3 – September to December It’s not like there’s ever any shortage of stories to cover in Croydon. But even by this area’s usual standards, the news that Inside Croydon reported, often exclusively, in the … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Art, Business, Crime, Croydon Council, History, Inside Croydon, Knife crime, Mayor Jason Perry, Whitgift Centre
Tagged 15% Council Tax hike, Brick by Brick, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Elianne Andam, Employment Tribunal, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Katherine Kerswell, knife crime, Labour, Mayor Jason Perry, murder, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace School, Purley Way, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Croydon 2023: the Penn Report, dog attacks and those giraffes
THE YEAR IN REVIEW Part 2 – May to August If there was one good thing to come out of Croydon Council this year, then it must have been the Penn Report. Katherine Kerswell, the council’s chief executive, had held … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Art, Borough of Culture 2023, Business, Crime, Croydon Council, Heathfield House, History, Inside Croydon, Knife crime, Mayor Jason Perry, Sarah Jones MP, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Borough of Culture, CODA, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, David Morgan, giraffes, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Ian Hislop, Ken Towl, Labour, Mayor Jason Perry, Private Eye, Purley Way, Tory, Utah, Wastefield, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Detectives release suspect in Michael Afonso murder hunt
A 22-year-old man arrested on Christmas Eve on suspicion of the murder of Michael Afonso was yesterday released by police. The man, who has not been named by police, has been “bailed pending further enquiries”, the Metropolitan Police said last … Continue reading
