Essex News & Investigations

THIS was the scene outside an Ilford pub after a large group of travellers turned up for a drink. Several police vehicles, including at least four cars and two vans, including three from the Territorial Support Group (TSG), were filmed in the roads bordering the Prince of Wales in Green Lane, on Sunday evening. There were groups of people outside and several police officers near the beer garden trying to disperse them. The story was first broken by our sister Tiktok account @

THE driver of a Ferrari Monza worth £3.7 million had the super car seized the first day it arrived in the UK during a Met Police crackdown on antisocial and driving across some of the wealthiest areas of London. More than £8million worth of expensive vehicles in total were seized over just three days. Officers from the Met, supported by Motor Insurers’ Bureau, seized a total of 90 vehicles between Friday, 7 August and Sunday, 9 August 2026 in the operation targeting uninsured

A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the "unexplained" death of a woman who was reported missing in Croydon. Police were called at around 12:05am on Friday, 17 July after Nicole Beling, 60, (above from Facebook) was reported missing by a family member. She was graded as a high-risk missing person and officers attended her home in Dittoncroft Close later that morning to conduct enquiries into her disappearance. Following a search of the property, officers d

POLICE are seeking the driver of a BMW after they allegedly failed to stop after being in a fatal collision with a motorbike. Despite best efforts of ambulance crews the 28-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene yesterday evening, Sunday, July 19 2026. The emergency services were at the scene of the accident at the junction of Whalebone Lane with the A12 Eastern Avenue at Chadwell Heath, east London at 10:30pm. According to onlookers a forensic tent was placed over the

PART of Horns Road was sealed off as police and the London Ambulance Service dealt with a road traffic crash. Residents were unable to pass a police cordon towards the southern end of the road. Onlookers, who provided video of the scene, first shown by our sister TikTok account @Newsaddictclub, said there were several police and ambulance vehicles. A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called at 10.14pm on Sunday 12 July 2026 to reports of a road traffic coll

A prolific sex offender who targeted children in the 1990s by masquerading as a caretaker has finally been brought to justice. David Pearce, now aged 70, from Cambridgeshire, will serve 18 years in prison, after an investigation by the Metropolitan Police presented indisputable forensic evidence. Pearce pleaded guilty to seven sex offences following the prosecution’s opening statement at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Wednesday, 6 May 2026. He was sentenced on Friday, 3 July, at

Detectives from the Homicide Command have launched a murder investigation in Hounslow following the death of a man. Police were called to the junction of Bath Road and Great Southwest Road, TW5 at 1:47am on Tuesday, 30 June following reports of a stabbing. Officers attended the scene with the London Ambulance Service to find a man, aged 22, with serious injuries. Despite the efforts from emergency services, he was sadly pronounced dead at the scene. His next-of-kin have been

ARMED police mobbed a Manor Park street after reports of a man seen with a firearm. The drama unfolded last night from 7:27pm on Whitta Road, near the train station. Witnesses said there were about seven armed police vehicles and several officers in the street. Officers in at least seven gun unit vehicles were seen arriving on the evening of June 29 2026 at about 7.:30pm. Officers with guns were then seen to head towards a flats block in the road. They then gained entry to on

A MAN was pulled from the water at Hollow Ponds in Whipps Cross during record June temperatures for the UK yesterday was pronounced dead in hospital the Met Police has confirmed. A London Ambulance Service spokesperson earlier said that a male found in the water was treated at the scene and then taken to hospital as a priority. However, the police has just confirmed that he was sadly later pronounced as deceased. A Met Police spokesperson said: "Police were called to a report

TOURISTS and revellers in central London need to be warned about a growing menace that sees people seemingly drugged then robbed while they are incapacitated, a former police officer has warned. Former Met Police DCI Dave McKelvey has issued another warning about the risk of "spiking robberies" in central London after two further suspected incidents overnight, including one where a man said he went unconscious after being forced to sniff white powder. Mr McKelvey runs the pri