Author: Henry Caldwell

A well-known British rapper has been handed a 12-year prison sentence after admitting he killed a 20-year-old university student while driving drunk at more than twice the legal speed limit through east London. Justin Clarke-Samuel, known professionally as Ghetts, was sentenced at the Old Bailey following his guilty plea to causing death by dangerous driving and a further charge of dangerous driving. The 41-year-old, from Woodford Green, was also banned from driving for 17 years by Judge Mark Lucraft KC. The victim, Yubin Tamang, had travelled from Nepal to study at a British university. He was crossing Redbridge Lane East…

Ten fire engines and approximately 70 firefighters are currently battling a significant fire at a derelict sports centre on Imperial Way in Croydon, with most of the two-storey building alight. The London Fire Brigade received the first of five calls to the incident at 4:26pm, sending crews from Croydon, Purley, Wallington, Norbury, Mitcham and surrounding stations to the scene. Two 32-metre turntable ladders are being used as water towers to tackle the flames from height, while drones are being deployed above the scene to provide live images and thermal imagery, giving incident commanders a real-time aerial view to help develop…

Tottenham Hotspur have made initial enquiries into the availability of Chelsea sporting director Paul Winstanley as they step up their search for a new sporting director, in a move that could have significant implications for their managerial hunt this summer. Spurs are looking to fill the sporting director role left vacant following Fabio Paratici’s departure, with Johan Lange currently in place. Football.london understands the club has made contact to check on Winstanley’s availability, though sources close to Chelsea insist he will not be leaving Stamford Bridge, where he holds a contract running until 2031. Winstanley joined Chelsea from Brighton in…

British Transport Police are appealing for help identifying a man after a passenger was headbutted on a train travelling between Woking and Guildford, leaving the victim with cuts to his forehead. The incident took place at around 10:10pm on Tuesday 16 December, when the attacker headbutted a fellow passenger on board the service before getting off at Guildford station. He then ran across the tracks and jumped over a fence to flee the scene. Officers have released CCTV images of a man they believe may have information that could assist their investigation and are asking anyone who recognises him to…

The US military continued using Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence model during Saturday’s joint US-Israeli bombardment of Iran, despite President Trump having ordered all federal agencies to stop using the tool just hours before the strikes began, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal and Axios. According to the Journal, military command used Claude for intelligence gathering, target selection and battlefield simulations during the massive assault on Iran. The reports highlight how deeply embedded AI tools have become in modern military operations, making a sudden withdrawal highly complex even when ordered directly by the president. Trump moved to sever all…

Almost half of all scheduled flights from London Heathrow to the Middle East have been cancelled today as the fallout from US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran triggers widespread aviation disruption across the region, with Iran retaliating by firing ballistic missiles and drones at targets including Israel, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. Aviation analytics firm Cirium confirmed that 24 of the 56 Heathrow departures bound for Middle Eastern destinations on Sunday 1 March have been cancelled. All three scheduled flights to Israel and both departures to Bahrain have been grounded. Eight of nine Qatar-bound services and nine of…

Customers at a Lidl supermarket in Croydon have been left packing their groceries into rubbish bin bags every evening for more than a week, after the store has repeatedly failed to stock adequate shopping bags for customers at the checkout. The ongoing issue has been reported at the Lidl branch on Whitehorse Road, CR0 2LG, where staff have been handing out green bin bags to customers at the self-checkout area in place of the standard carrier bags shoppers would normally expect to purchase. Unlike a one-off stock issue, the problem has now persisted across multiple consecutive evenings, suggesting a recurring…

A 30-year-old man has been sentenced to eight months in prison after carrying out a prolonged campaign of sexual offending against lone women travelling on the Bakerloo line, admitting in police interview that he repeated the behaviour because he enjoyed the adrenaline it gave him. Matheus Prestes, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to eight counts of exposure in November 2025 and was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court on 13 February. The offending began on the evening of 21 June 2025 at Baker Street station, where Prestes stepped off a Bakerloo line service, stood on the platform and exposed…

A Metropolitan Police officer has been dismissed and permanently barred from working in policing after punching a man he was arresting and then deliberately omitting the use of force from his official statement to conceal what had happened. PC Peter Odusote, attached to the Central West Basic Command Unit, was found to have breached professional standards relating to use of force and honesty and integrity at a misconduct hearing that concluded on Thursday 26 February. The panel heard that on 15 August 2023, PC Odusote detained a man who had been committing criminal damage to a police car outside Charing…

Three men have been convicted of murder at the Old Bailey after a retrial, following the stabbing of a teenager whose body was found in a west London park in the early hours of the morning. Tyler Donnelly, 19, was found unresponsive in Hanworth Park in Feltham at around 7:40am on 25 January 2024. He had suffered multiple injuries including a stab wound to the neck and was pronounced dead at the scene. Keith Preddie, 34, of Feltham, Daniel Matos, 23, and Joshua Cowley, 29, both of Hounslow, were all found guilty of murder on Friday 27 February following a…