Essex News & Investigations

SEIZURE: Cash allegedly found on Shkrela last night (NCA) 

A MAN has been charged after being allegedly found in possession of three kilos of cocaine, £200,000 cash and a false identity document. 

Amir Shkrela, 27, of Walthamstow, east London, was arrested last night by...

POLICE and the CPS are bracing for a potential explosion in domestic violence cases when the lockdown is finally lifted.

Officials fear that many victims will have been unable to report offences due to being lockdown with their abusive partners, but could take the oppor...

ON the run serial rapist "The Beast of Kavos" was today arrested after a dramatic fall down a ravine after two weeks in hiding.

Dimitris Aspiotis, 47, (pictured above tied to a stretcher - Corfu TV News) was wanted for questioning over an alleged new attack on the islan...

AN alleged prolific burglar wanted in connection with a string of crimes in his native Romania Has been arrested in the UK.

Constantin Lucian Slotea, 34, from Cardiff, was arrested on a European arrest warrant and brought before Westminster Magistrates' Court (pictured)...

A CONVICTED Jihadi terrorist has been sent back to prison after failing to notify counter terror police about an address where he previously lived. 

Mohammed Abdul Hasnath, 27, (pictured above in CCTV from 2011) of Stepney, east London, appeared at Woolwich Crown Court...

A SEX offender was rearrested after a dramatic search involving a police helicopter.

Eyewitnesses said the Essex Police chopper hovered low over the Nicholls Field open space and surrounding areas in Harlow for more than an hour on Friday from around 5pm.

The force has c...

A SERIAL rapist wanted by police after a new allegation was made against him has been contacted by Essex News & Investigations while he is in hiding. 

Dimitris Aspiotis, 47, (pictured above) known as the Beast of Kavos after being convicted of raping a string of British...

A POLISH man today admitted an attack on a police officer that happened yesterday.

Kamil Czerwinski, 33, from Durban Road, Tottenham, north London, was brought before Westminster Magistrates' Court.

He admitted to one count of assault against an emergency worker, Met Pol...

A POLICE crackdown on drug supply during the lockdown continued this morning with thousands of pounds in cash, drugs and a loaded handgun seized during a dawn raid in Tower Hamlets in which seven people were arrested.

Officers from the Central East Gangs Taskforce team...

ESSEX Police has been unable to respond to claims from an expert pathologist that it treated a potential murder as an industrial accident.

More than three months ago Essex News and Investigations exclusively revealed how top pathologist Richard Shepherd had concluded in...