There is an increased police presence in Kensington Gardens today (April 17 2026) as officers are assessing a number of discarded items to rule out any connection to claims about the Israeli Embassy. A Met Police statement said: "As a precaution, some of the officers who have been deployed are wearing protective clothing. We recognise this may concern local residents and the wider public. We do not believe there to be any increased public safety risk at this stage, but we wou

THE Met Police's pledge to start 24/7 patrols of Leicester Square and Soho has been called into question after officers were unable to attend an alleged sexual assault on a woman for an hour and a half. The suspect was only arrested after private security officers from My Local Bobby (MLB), who had detained him and requested police attendance, marched him to a police station. The incident also raises questions about the Met's commitment to combatting violence and sex abuse ag

Police are investigating how a bag containing a force laptop and phone ended up in the lost property of a central London eatery nine days after it was stolen. The rucksack was reported as being stolen from an off-duty officer while he was in a venue in Great Portland Street, at about 5:40pm on March 30 this year. It was handed into Charing Cross police station on April 8 after being found in the lost property of a different venue, a restaurant, within 1km of the location of t

Thousands of victims across London will see justice delivered faster and fairer as the RAAC‑hit Harrow Crown Court reopens in a major Government drive to cut court backlogs. Eight courtrooms, with some newly refurbished, are back in action following a £26 million safety overhaul, after the building was forced to shut in August 2023 amid fears over crumbling concrete. Before it was forced to shut, the court was handling hundreds of cases a year. Bringing it back at full streng

A man who subjected two young children to abuse over 15 years has been jailed following an investigation by Met detectives. Anthony Adewale Sobogun, 61 (04.03.65), of Thistlewood Crescent, Croydon was sentenced to 28 years' imprisonment at Inner London Crown Court today, Wednesday, 15 April. He had previously been found guilty of 17 non-recent sexual abuse offences against two children. The offending includes multiple incidents of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age

A JUDGE said two brothers who raped a woman after one of them was caught on camera forcing her into their property had no case to answer it has emerged. Marius Todoran, 40, (04.11.1985) (top right) and Vasile Todoran, 43 (18.06.82) (top left), both of Girton Avenue, Brent, were only jailed after the Court of Appeal overturned the judge's decision to stop their trial, paving the way for another one. The pair were sentenced today, Wednesday, 8 April 2026, at Kingston Crown Cour

CELEBRITY peer Lord Brocket has denied five sexual offences against the same woman. Lord Charles Brocket, 74, a former contestant on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!, appeared at Isleworth Crown Court today<April 1 2026> after being charged with two counts of rape last and three sexual offence charges against the woman last August. Lord Brocket (above in a still image from the hit ITV show), who is being prosecuted under his full name of Charles Nall-Cain Brocket, is cha

LONDON'S most crime-riddled hotspot is rarely proactively policed by the Met Police during the week, a probe by UK News and Investigations can reveal. An audit of police foot patrols in and around Leicester Square throughout 2025 found that during the week there was rarely a visible police presence from Sunday to Thursday unless some other form of proactive operation, such as targeting mobile phone thefts, was underway. The audit found that the force often displayed a good pr

POLICE, firefighters and ambulance crews were in attendance at a London theatre this morning after a man became stuck on the roof. These pictures show the scene in Coventry Street, between Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square, at 5:40am, today, March 29 2026. The emergency crews were outside the Prince of Wales Theatre, which is hosting the popular Book of Mormon production. According to a source the fire service was trying to locate someone who was allegedly on the roof at

Met detectives are appealing for information following a collision between a motorcycle and a pedestrian on Trafalgar Square. Police were called at 9:20pm on Saturday, 28 March 2026 to reports of a collision on Trafalgar Square by the junction of Spring Gardens, WC2N. Officers attended alongside the London Ambulance Service. The pedestrian, a woman in her 40s, sustained life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital, where she remains. Her next-of-kin have been informed