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Police swooped on Aweys Shikhey as he tried to board a flight from Stansted to Turkey, where he hoped to make his way to Syria and fight for Isis.

Muhammed Ramande was sentenced in his absence for two counts of sexual assault by penetration while giving Swedish massages to women at Verity Hair and Beauty in Hampstead.

Metropolitan Police Constable Thomas Hooper denies two allegations of breaching standards of professional behaviour for stealing a colleague's biscuits.

The crime was masterminded by Mihai Cirstoiu and Dragoz Dragomir, who made £1m from scams through the use of fake IDs produced at a "factory" in Enfield, Greater London.

The notorious "Croydon Cat Killer" is being hunted down by a team of 15 Metropolitan Police officers.

The Metropolitan Police are investigating an "incident" inside the House of Parliament in Westminster on 13 February. Sources suggest they are dealing with a suspicious package.

A bomb that caused widespread travel disruption in east London will be dragged up the Thames to Shoeburyness, Essex.

London's Met police have refused to release files on the murder probe of Lord Lucan's nanny because the missing earl could still be alive.

Islington police shared a photo, which had been submitted by a member of public, showing three teenagers clinging onto the back of a moving bus.

Mucktar Khan and Joshua Eduardo have been jailed at Inner London Crown Court after an investigation by the Metropolitan Police's Trident unit.

The man known as Nick whose claims he was victim of a VIP paedophile ring led to a Met police inquiry has been charged with possession of child abuse images.

A court reportedly heard how 25-year-old Umar Haque was found with a large knife wrapped in newspaper hidden in his car when police searched his property and vehicle.

Three teenagers including a 14-year-old girl have been arrested after a firearm was pointed at an officer who stopped a youth in Lewisham, South East London.

According to the figures released by the Metropolitan Police, there were about 431 acid attacks in London in 2017.

Three teenagers believed to be about 16-years-old died after a black Audi slammed into a London bus stop.

A gang that dealt £250k worth of class-A drugs from London to Ipswich have been jailed for a total of 25 years.

Gary Kerby attempted to rape a young woman as she walked through Rush Common in Brixton, south London, the Metropolitan Police said.

Acid attacks in London rose significantly in London last year according to data revealed by the Metropolitan Police.

Metropolitan Police hunt two armed robbers blamed for string of robberies on shops and banks in capital.

Gay man Gordon Maxwell required surgery after he was violently attacked for wearing a white dress in Tower Hamlets, London. Metropolitan police release CCTV in witness appeal.

The Metropolitan Police want to trace three people who appeared to engineer the brazen theft of £1,000 from a woman queuing up at a bank in Barking, East London.

London's death toll from stabbings in 2017 hit 80, the worst for nearly a decade and one campaigner says police are not doing enough.

Police have arrested a man in connection with the murder of Iuliana Tudos, who went missing on Christmas Eve and was later found in Finsbury Park, North London.

The Metropolitan Police are investigating the murders of two teenagers and two 20-year-olds this morning as the capital's knife crime epidemic shows no sign of abating.

Following four terror attacks in London in 2017 and the threat level at 'severe', the Metropolitan Police plans to have fewer officers on London's streets on New Year's Eve.

Iuliana Tudos, 22, was found dead in Finsbury Park, north London, and police have launched a murder inquiry. She is thought to have been attacked on Christmas Eve.

The Metropolitan Police is facing a growing backlash over its role in the first secretary of state Damian Green's downfall after he quit in the fallout from the porn scandal.

The third International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots was due to take place at Goldsmiths University but has relocated to an unknown location in north London.

The woman died on the spot after being hit by the vehicles while attempting to cross a road in Tulse Hill.

The shooting took place in Watford, Greater London, in December last year. The victim, who was not their intended target, suffered severe leg wounds.