Anthony France

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Anthony France is Crime Correspondent for the Evening Standard and is based in London

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Anthony France is Crime Correspondent for the Evening Standard and is based in London

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Crime

Tributes to 'true scholar', 14, killed in Hainault attack

Daniel went to the same school as Nottingham attack victim Grace O’Malley-Kumar

1 May 2024
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Crime

Met chief says police officer nearly lost hand in Hainault rampage

Man, 36, detained on suspicion of murder after fatal sword attack

1 May 2024
<p>A man was seen carrying a samurai sword at the scene in Hainault</p>
Crime

Boy, 14, dies and four others injured in sword rampage in Hainault

A man, 36, was arrested after multiple people were stabbed after a van was driven into a building in a suburban street

30 Apr 2024
<p>Admiral Duncan pub</p>
Crime

London victims of Soho pub nail bombing remembered 25 years on

Andrea Dykes died with two friends John Light and Nik Moore at the Admiral Duncan

30 Apr 2024
<p>The Metropolitan Police</p>
Crime

Met Police officer sacked for using drug-laced vape with friends

PC David Burgess accepts he was ‘negligent’ to try an e-cigarette containing cannabis oil

30 Apr 2024
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London

Victims' families blast Sadiq Khan over crime

Shock figures reveal 38% increase in knife offences since Mayor took office

29 Apr 2024
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Crime

Police investigate 'attempted kidnap' of Jewish man in Stamford Hill

The man was told to ‘get in boot of a car’ as he walked along north London street

28 Apr 2024
<p>Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein (Alamy/PA)</p>
World

Harvey Weinstein in hospital after rape conviction overturned

Disgraced Weinstein is facing a retrial over claims he forced himself on two women

27 Apr 2024
<p>Peter Smith and wife Joanna </p>
UK

British tourist fights for life after horror shark attack in Caribbean

Peter Smith, from Berkhamsted, sustained injuries to his hand, thigh and stomach

27 Apr 2024
<p>Om Fahad whose real name is Ghufran Sawadi</p>
World

Iraqi influencer Om Fahad shot dead by motorbike assassin

The TikTok star shared videos of herself dancing to pop music in form-hugging clothes

27 Apr 2024
<p>Many walruses live on Svalbard, Norway (Alamy/PA)</p>
World

Tourist fined for getting too close to Walrus in Norway

Police prosecutor Magnus Rindal Fredriksen said the man was trying to get a ‘good picture’

27 Apr 2024
<p>Woman lays flows at grave of Alexei Navalny</p>
World

Putin probably didn’t order Alexei Navalny’s killing - US report

The Russian president’s arch foe Navalny died in an Arctic prison aged 47

27 Apr 2024
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UK

Man holding ‘swastika placard’ arrested at pro-Palestine march

Pro-Palestinian protesters will march from Parliament Square to Hyde Park

27 Apr 2024
<p>Kiyan Prince, 15</p>
Crime

Outrage as Leeds fans boo father of stabbed teen’s half-time speech

Kiyan Prince, 15, was murdered trying to break up a fight outside his north London school in May 2006

27 Apr 2024
<p>Campaign Against Antisemitism chief executive Gideon Falter was threatened with arrest near a pro-Palestine demonstration </p>
London

PM 'tolerance' plea ahead of pro-Gaza London march and counter protest

Home Secretary James Cleverly and Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley held urgent meetings with Jewish groups on Thursday

26 Apr 2024
<p>Taylor Swift  (Doug Peters/PA)</p>
Crime

New £152 million fraud reporting website to stop victims being conned

Criminals target Taylor Swift fans looking to buy tickets for her sold-out summer concerts in Wembley

26 Apr 2024
<p>The players have been released on bail</p>
Crime

Two teenage Premier League footballers arrested over rape claim

A club spokesman said the team will not be making further comment at this stage

24 Apr 2024
<p>Head chef Paul Bates, right</p>
London

London ‘zero-waste’ chef turns chicken guts into à la carte dishes

Paul Bates says there’s no part of an animal that cannot be eaten

24 Apr 2024
<p>Jill Dando died on Gowan Avenue in Fulham</p>
Crime

Jill Dando wanted man ‘looks like Serbian hitman’, claims expert

Milorad Ulemek, a twice-convicted killer, is serving 40 years in prison

23 Apr 2024
<p>Arif Azad will have to notify authorities of his whereabouts for life</p>
Crime

Paedophile who kept ‘manual’ on how to abuse babies jailed

Police said Arif Azad’s behaviour was becoming increasingly sinister

23 Apr 2024
<p>The York and Albany pub on Monday was repossessed by bailiffs and locksmiths</p>
London

Last squatters leave Gordon Ramsay's £13million London pub

Locksmiths and bailiffs arrived at the Grade II-listed building at 5am on Monday

22 Apr 2024