Day: July 25, 2017

    An Indian Muslim teenager was kidnapped by two men in balaclavas before being raped and murdered after she began a relationship with an Arab Muslim, a court has heard. The body of Celine Dookhran, 19, was found inside a £1.5million home after a woman in her 20s who had her throat slit alerted police from hospital, it is said. Ms Dookhran was allegedly tasered and dragged from the shower before she was kidnapped with the other woman, bound and gagged and taken to an address in Kingston-upon-Thames where they were both raped and Ms Dookran was killed on July 19. A post mortem gave the cause of death as an incised wound to the neck. Mujahid Arshid, 33, appeared in court charged with the murder, rape and kidnap of Ms Dookhran. He is further charged with the rape, attempted mur...

    Tower Hamlets Council paying for police recruits to tackle drug runners on its housing estates. Police discover knife hidden on Regent's Canal towpath at Bethnal Green. Recruitment has begun for a taskforce to patrol estates through the night from September. It follows the Met’s Operation Leipzig two weeks ago when police joined East End community leaders on a weapons sweep which uncovered deadly knives and drugs paraphernalia first revealed in the East London Advertiser. We have agreed to 14 new officers to work on Tower Hamlets housing estates, Mayor John Biggs told councilors. They will take on persistent offenders who make life a misery for residents. The council is paying out £2.5m over the next three years for more officers and security patrols. Drugs found in Roman...

    An acid attack victim today revealed the devastating effect caused by the use of household chemicals as weapons. Musa Miah, 23, spent three weeks in hospital after being attacked with a friend at East India Dock. He had two skin graft operations at the Chelmsford burns unit and lost 15 per cent of his vision in his left eye. Describing the attack in March last year, he said: After about a minute, I could feel it starting to burn. My eyelids were burnt as well as the skin on my face. Musa Miah after an operation to repair his skin For six months I did not dare step out of the house. When I was in hospital they had to cover up the mirror because I wasn’t ready to look at myself. A man, 20, and a boy, 16, were both charged with two counts of throwing corrosive fluid with the ...