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Category Archives: Crime
Six arrested on suspicion of murder over Westow Hill stabbing
Six people have now been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed to death on Westow Hill, Crystal Palace, in the early hours of Sunday morning. The Metropolitan Police have named the victim as Kamahl Cameron-Williams. He … Continue reading
Man arrested on suspicion of murder after Westow stabbing
A man was stabbed to death on Westow Hill in Crystal Palace in the early hours of Sunday morning. The Metropolitan Police have yet to name the victim, a man believed to be in his 30s. Another man, aged 30, … Continue reading
Step-mother who scalded 5-year-old is sentenced to 12 years
Janet Nix, who was found guilty of the manslaughter of her five-year-old step-daughter by scalding her in a hot bath in Thornton Heath in 1978, has today at Isleworth Crown Court been sentenced to 12 years in jail. Andrea Bernard … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Policing, Thornton Heath
Tagged Andrea Bernard, Cold Case Homicide, Desmond Bernard, Janice Nix, Metropolitan Police, Thornton Heath
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Three accused in Croydon vote-rigging case to face trial in 2029
Three Croydon Labour Party activists – Joel Bodmer, his wife Shila Bodmer and former Fieldway councillor Carole Bonner – are to be tried on conspiracy and computer misuse charges, but will be forced to wait almost three years to make … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe East, Carole Bonner, Crime, Croydon East, David Evans, Maddie Henson, Natasha Irons, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Anonyvoter, Bodger Bodmer, Carole Bonner, Crown Prosecution Service, Croydon, Croydon East, Daily Torygraph, David Evans, Joel Bodmer, Labour, Metropolitan Police, Natasha Irons, Pearleen Sangha, Steve Reed OBE
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Delivery rider badly hurt after hit-and-run in South Croydon
PHOTO EXCLUSIVE by RAKESH JAITLY A delivery rider is being treated in hospital after being hit by a speeding car in what eyewitnesses described as a hit-and-run crash on a busy South Croydon road during Thursday night’s rush hour. The … Continue reading
Fare evasion on trams is three times worse than on buses
Transport for London reckons it is losing £190m per year in unpaid fares – and the Wimbledon to Beckenham tram network is the worst of all the capital’s services for fare dodgers Fare evasion on Croydon’s trams is twice as … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, Crime, TfL, Tramlink, Transport
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Trams, Fare dodgers, Fare evasion, London, London Assembly, London Trams, TfL, Transport for London
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Mitcham man given 26 years for ‘cruel, devastating’ murder
Kemuel Gambicky-Forbes was sentenced at the Old Bailey yesterday to 26 years in prison for the murder of Leon Anderson outside his home in Mitcham in April 2025. Gambicky-Forbes, 25, of Deer Park Gardens, was arrested the day after the … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Knife crime, Merton, Mitcham, Policing
Tagged Eastfields, Kemuel Gambicky-Forbes, knife crime, Leon Anderson, Maple Close, Metropolitan Police, Mitcham
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Three arrested after woman dies at Furze Road, Thornton Heath
Two men and a woman remain in police custody following the death of a woman at a house on Furze Road, Thornton Heath, yesterday morning. Paramedics called police to the house just after 9am on Wednesday May 27 “following concerns … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Thornton Heath
Tagged Croydon, Furze Road, London Ambulance Service, Metropolitan Police, murder, Thornton Heath
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Step-mum Nix found guilty of killing five-year-old in 1978
Janet Nix, the pensioner accused of killing her five-year-old step-daughter in Thornton Heath in July 1978, was today found guilty of the manslaughter of Andrea Bernard after new evidence led detectives to open an investigation almost half a century after … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Policing, Thornton Heath
Tagged Andrea Bernard, Cold Case Homicide, Desmond Bernard, Janice Nix, Metropolitan Police, Thornton Heath
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Vote-rigging accused Bonner tried to shut down this news site
Four Labour activists have been charged over events surrounding the party’s controversial 2023 Croydon East parliamentary selection. Evidence has emerged of how one of them had been part of a concerted campaign to close Inside Croydon Croydon’s “Infamous Four” – … Continue reading
Posted in 2024 General Election, Addiscombe East, Carole Bonner, Crime, Croydon East, Natasha Irons
Tagged Anonyvoter, Bodger Bodmer, Carole Bonner, Crown Prosecution Service, Croydon, Croydon East, Jack Buck, Joel Bodmer, Labour, Metropolitan Police, Natasha Irons, Paul Scott, Pearleen Sangha, Tony Newman
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Cole found guilty of murder at Imperial Way funeral shooting
Byron Cole has been found guilty of the 2025 murder of Anthony Morrison, who was attending a funeral wake on Imperial Way when he was fatally shot. Byron Cole, aged 40, of Gleneldon Road, Streatham, was found guilty by a … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Policing, Purley Way
Tagged Anthony Morrison, Byron Cole, CostCo, Fatal shooting, Imperial Way, Metropolitan Police, murder, Purley Way, Shooting, Streatham
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True crime show live on stage at Cryer Arts, Carshalton, May 10
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Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Crime, Cryer Theatre
Tagged Carshalton, Cheryl Fergus-Ferrell, Croydon, Cryer Arts, David Swindle, True crime
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Police called after TTIP candidate disrupts police meeting
Police were called out to a meeting held in Woodside on Thursday night when it was interrupted by a man described by eyewitnesses as “aggressive”, “intimidating”, “rude” and “misogynistic”. The disrupted meeting was organised by… Croydon police. The disrupter was … Continue reading
True crime show live on stage at Cryer Arts, Carshalton, May 10
C O M M U N I T Y A D V E R T I S E M E N T
Posted in Advertisement, Advertisement features, Crime, Cryer Theatre
Tagged Carshalton, Cheryl Fergus-Ferrell, Croydon, Cryer Arts, David Swindle, True crime
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Gang guilty of industrial-scale fly-tipping across south London
Four men sentenced after they were found to have issued threats and blackmail, destroyed property and, at a site off the Purley Way, cost the property owner £300,000 The scale of the organised criminality which lies behind the scourge of … Continue reading
Greggs West Croydon in a (sausage) roll-out of secure shops
The town centre and South Norwood are once again bracketed in areas where anti-social behaviour – and shoplifting – is ‘most acute’, as bakery chain opts to make its goods more secure in-store Greggs, the high street bakery and sandwich … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Crime, South Norwood, West Croydon
Tagged Anti-social behaviour, ASB, Croydon High Street, Greggs, High Street, Sausage roll, Shoplifting, South Norwood, West Croydon
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Minister Reed received hacked files from Labour candidate
While Steve Reed undertakes a witch-hunt against Green election candidates, his own party has selected someone who admitted distributing 77MB of illegally hacked data – including passing the stolen material to Reed himself. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES One of the … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, Crime, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, David Evans, Inside Croydon, Southwark Council
Tagged Brixton, Clive Fraser, Croydon East, Croydon East CLP, Croydon North, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, David Evans, Dulwich Wood, Joel Bodmer, Labour, Lambeth, Lambeth council, Ruth Bannister, Southwark, Southwark Council, Southwark Labour, Steve Reed MP, Steve Reed OBE, Streatham and Croydon North
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‘Young people out of hand’: perennial problem of street crime
CROYDON CHRONICLES: Mobs of young people roaming the streets, stealing from shops and terrorising the neighbourhood – just an everyday episode in Croydon, not from last month but during the Edwardian era. DAVID MORGAN delves into the Minster archive The … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, David Morgan, History
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Chronicles, Croydon police, David Morgan, Hooliganism, Hooligans, London, Magistrates' Court
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MP Jones welcomes High Court ruling on RoboCop cameras
Human rights campaigners are to appeal yesterday’s High Court ruling that determined that the Metropolitan Police’s use of unproven Live Facial Recognition cameras did not breach people’s human rights, judges saying the force’s policy gave an “adequate indication of the … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Crime, Croydon West, Live Facial Recognition cameras, London-wide issues, Policing, Sarah Jones MP
Tagged Big Brother Watch, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon West, Labour, LFR, Live Facial Recognition, London, Metropolitan Police, North End, Sarah Jones MP, Sir Mark Rowley, Tory
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Four face cybercrime charges over Croydon selection scandal
A former councillor close to Tony Newman and Simon Hall and a friend of cabinet minister Steve Reed are among those due in court next month following a lengthy police investigation. By STEVEN DOWNES Joel “Bodger” Bodmer and former Fieldway … Continue reading
Posted in 2024 General Election, Addiscombe East, Carole Bonner, Crime, Croydon East, David Evans, Maddie Henson, Natasha Irons, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Anonyvoter, Bodger Bodmer, Carole Bonner, Crown Prosecution Service, Croydon, Croydon East, Daily Torygraph, David Evans, Joel Bodmer, Labour, Melanie Felten, Metropolitan Police, Natasha Irons, Olga Fitzroy, Pearleen Sangha, Steve Reed OBE
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‘Devious killer’ sentenced to life for murder of Marjama Osman
Simon Ghebremedhin has been sentenced to life imprisonment, to serve a minimum of 19 years, for the murder of 26-year-old Marjama Osman in her own home on Frith Street, just off Surrey Street Market, in May last year. Ghebremedhin, 34, … Continue reading
Police make murder case appeal: Where is Jordan Vincent?
‘We just want justice for Rijkaard’ says mother of the victim of brutal gang attack on Surrey Street Market two years ago It was on this day two years ago that Rijkaard Siafa was the target of a vicious knife … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Knife crime, London-wide issues, Policing, Surrey Street
Tagged Croydon, David Walcott, Drug gangs, Fellmongers Yard, Guinness, Jordan Vincent, knife crime, Machete murder, Metropolitan Police, murder, Norbury, Rammon Mali, Rijkaard Salu Siafa, Rijkaard Siafa, spread eagle, Streatham, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market, youth knife crime
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Frith Street stabbing: jury gives guilty verdict on ‘devious killer’
Simon Ghebremedhin has been found guilty of the murder of Marjama Osman, who he stabbed in her home on Frith Road in May last year. Ghebremedhin, 33, of Streatham High Road, was found guilty by a jury at Inner London … Continue reading
Fourth man convicted for ‘brutal’ killing of Michael Afonso
More than two years after Michael Afonso was murdered in a brutal gang attack in Thornton Heath just before Christmas 2023, a fourth man has been convicted. Ali Abdul Basit’s manslaughter and robbery conviction was largely down to forensic evidence, … Continue reading
This is where ‘Don’t rock the boat’ has become official mantra
CROYDON COMMENTARY: With local elections fast approaching, the national press has been taking a closer look at Croydon. Business owner NITIN MEHTA posted a comment in response to an article in Murdoch-owned The Times, and here expands on his points … Continue reading →
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