A man who was filmed brutally beating his partner outside her home was let off with just a caution nearly two years after Metropolitan Police chiefs vowed to crack down on violence against women and g...

A man has been charged with the murder of 42-year-old Gemma Devonish who was stabbed to death in Carshalton.James Madden, 38, of Railton Road, Herne Hill, south London, who was known to Gemma, was arrested in the early hours of Friday, 20 December. On Saturday, 21 December, he was charged with her murder.The man is James Madden, 38, (25/03/1986) of Railton Road, SE24. He will appear in custody at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 23 December.Officers await the conclusion of a post-mortem exa

A labour ward, where a mum of five died, was being run by a junior doctor with a newly-qualified colleague in their first week on the job, it has emerged.Staff in charge on the night Laura-Jane Seaman...

A labour ward, where a mum of five died, was being run by a junior doctor with a newly-qualified colleague in their first week on the job, it has emerged.Staff in charge on the night Laura-Jane Seaman...

Three people were shot last night, including a woman sho died, in London's latest murder involving a gun.At about 9:15pm on Saturday, 14 December, police were called to reports a shooting in Gifford R...

One of the more bizarre parts of the Duke of York's now famous car crash interview for BBC Newsnight was when he claimed he took his daughter for a birthday party at a Pizza Express in Surrey.It was w...

An appeal by Thomas Cashman (above left) over his murder conviction was built on an extraordinary claim from his solicitor that a mystery man had claimed police secretly showed the jury a file of evid...

An appeal by Thomas Cashman (above left) over his murder conviction was built on an extraordinary claim from his solicitor that a mystery man had claimed police secretly showed the jury a file of evid...

Police desperately fought to put out flames on a man after he set himself on fire in the street yesterday.Video shared on X by London & UK Street News shows a man in a high visibility waistcoat spraying the man, who is engulfed in flames and standing with his arms up, with a fire extinguisher, in Islington, north London.Screams of "oh my God" can be heard from onlookers as police arrive and try to put out the flames by beating him with a coat.A man is also heard to repeatedly call "get water, ge

New Scotland Yard plans to use more civilian staff and retiring detectives to combat the most serious criminals as it desperately tries to plug chronic vacancies.The dire state of the Metropolitan Police force's ability to combat serious and organised crime is laid bare in a leaked memo to staff from one of its most senior officers, in which he says the force will "do less with less" in its fight against organised crime.Deputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward (above) told detectives on the force

A man claimed police and the CPS "slipped a page out of a statement" during his criminal trial and "stole a Range Rover" that should have formed part of a subsequent proceeds of crime case.Julian Wright, 59, made the shock allegations at Snaresbrook Crown Court as he argued they had joined forces to launch a "vindictive" review of his assets because he made a complaint to a watchdog about alleged anomalies with his prosecution.Wright told the court a Met Police financial investigator had applied

Twenty-four hour police station front counters open to the public could be axed across London if the Met Police is forced into making crippling cuts due to a forecast £450 million financial blackhole....