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Child first contacted Childline over their internet chat service before then reporting the crimes to police.

Mark Morris, 39, pleaded guilty to the murder of the mother of his child, Emma Day, after a dispute about child care payments.

Anjungi Lam, 35, has been jailed for attacking a gay man with a pint glass at a Wetherspoons in Peckham, south London. Shocking CCTV has been released by the Metropolitan Police.

Londoner Ian Barker, 61, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for abusing two lads under his care in the Scouts' Islington branch between 1979 and 1981.

Hundreds remain in temporary accommodation, months after the fire struck the west London tower block.

National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS) introduces two-week firearms amnesty after national figures reveal gun crime rose by 27% in 2017.

Emails sent between the UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Swedish lawyers, discussing the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, were reportedly deleted back in 2014.

A suspected drug dealer tried to swallow a knife after he was stopped by police at a Bonfire Night celebration in London.

Delando Smith was jailed on 6 November at Croydon Crown Court after being found guilty of rapes and a sexual assault, which he filmed on his mobile phone.

Julian Aubrey, a sexual abuse counsellor, was knifed to death in his home in Earl's Court on Monday (30 October). The 55-year-old was a former co-chairman of an LGBT liaison group.

Abosede Adeyinka was jailed for 21 years after being found guilty of attacking a pensioner during an attempted burglary.

Two people were injured and taken to hospital during the shooting which happened in the early hours of 28 October.

The car rammed into the crowd outside a bar, injuring several people, before speeding away from the scene.

The three male suspects punched a 60-year-old woman before pushing her to the ground and kicking her.

Fortune Aragua, 25, raped the 13-year-old who was wearing her school uniform - but didn't bank on her mother's courage.

Michael Harrington carried out 16 thefts at Heathrow airport. He pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court.

Three men were stabbed close to the Parsons Green station in South-West London as commuters made their way home. One man died after the incident on Monday (16 October).

The Metropolitan Police have published an E-fit of a man who fell to his death from the top of the Park Lane Hilton in March 2014.

Unprovoked attack left the man with serious facial injuries, as well as permanent damage to his retina.

A London moped gang that carried out more than 100 crimes across Camden, Westminster, Islington, and Kensington and Chelsea over a 16-day period have been jailed for 18 years.

East London high street has been sealed off and the 257 and 339 bus routes have both been diverted as a result.

Multiple people injured on Exhibition Road in London, home of the Natural History Museum and Science Museum after a car hits pedestrians. Police have detained one man.

Police and a doctor were called to a house in London Lane, Bromley, after the pensioner began acting strangely. When they got their, she was wielding the cosh and meat cleaver.

A London pensioner was attacked in his own bed by violent burglars who then stole a tobacco tin given to his grandfather by Princess Mary for Christmas in 1914.

No injuries were reported, according to a Met Police spokesman.

Ivan Griffin, 24, stabbed to death Sabrina Mullings, 38, in her flat in Upper Norwood, south London.

He will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court later today

Police investigating the attack, which left 30 people injured, have detained a third man.

Authorities are 'growing increasingly concerned' about the baby's mother, police said.

An 18-year-old man believed to be from Iraq is being questioned by police.