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    Three men have been acquitted of killing a talented martial artist. An Old Bailey jury found Abdallah Salaheedin, 29, of Blackboy Lane, Tottenham, Bobby Lawrence, 21, of Canonbury Street, Canonbury, and Billy Flynn, 24, of Laburnum Walk, Hornchurch, not guilty of the manslaughter of Jordan Bari and of possession of a firearm with intent. The 20-year-old, from Stratford’s East Village, was shot dead while answering the door of a flat in William Rathbone House, Bethnal Green, on October 3. A talented Tang Soo Do fighter, he had trained for many years at the London Black Belt Academy at Newham Leisure Centre. At the time of his death, the former Brampton Manor Academy pupil had recently finished a Level 3 BTEC course in sport at Barking and Dagenham College and was working si...

    Police are appealing for information to find an 16-year-old girl who may be in Whitechapel or Shadwell. Aneesa Bibi was last seen travelling from Shadwell to Aldgate East at approximately 11am on July 7. She is described as being of Bangladeshi origin, around 5ft 6ins tall, slim build with very long black hair. The teenager, who comes from Feltham, was last seen wearing a grey ribbed knee length dress with a square neck and white plimsolls with a lace pattern. She was also carrying a khaki floral Cath Kidston handbag. Anyone with information on her whereabouts should contact police 101 or Tweet @MetCC.

    Luana Gomes, 12, was treated for inhalation of the highly toxic gas after escaping the inferno which killed at least 80 people, according to BBC Newsnight. All the latest news, views and opinion on the Grenfell tragedy The schoolgirl fled the fire which tore through the 24-storey tower block with her parents Marcia and Andreia Gomes and her 10-year-old sister Megan. The two sisters and their mother were put into induced comas at King’s College Hospital where Mrs Gomes, 37, lost her unborn baby, already named Logan. Luana, who was unconscious for six days, was diagnosed with smoke inhalation injury and cyanide poisoning, discharge records seen by the BBC show. It also records that she received two doses of hydroxycobalamine for cyanide poisoning. All three women were treate...

    A consultation on the plans has opened and is set to run until September. Two options have been put forward for rerouting the 115 between Commercial Road and Aldgate, allowing it to call at Whitechapel station. Option one is via Jubilee Street, Stepney Way, Sidney Street and Whitechapel Road in both directions. Option two is the same as option one but running via Stepney Way westbound only and Ashfield Street eastbound. Another plan sees route 25, which runs from Ilford to Oxford Circus via Aldgate, Whitechapel and Mile End, run only as far as Holborn. For more information and to take part in the consultation, visit consultations.tfl.gov.uk/buses/elizabethline  

    A taxi driver who raped vulnerable women after they fell asleep in his car had been sentenced to 12 years in jail. Jahir Hussain, 37, pleaded guilty in May to assaulting three women who got into his car in the early hours of the morning. Hussain, from east London, was registered to work as a mini-cab driver but was not actually working when he picked up his victims. On October 21 Hussain picked up his first victim a 23 year old woman in the Old Street area as she made her way home. She fell asleep and woke up to find Hussain in the back of the car with her, and that he had cut off her clothing. He repeatedly attacked the victim before driving her home. On December 2 December Hussain was again in Old Street at 2am when a 31-year-old woman asked him if he was her pre-booked ...

    John Tomlin handed himself in an east London police station on Sunday. The chief suspect in an alleged acid attack on two cousins in east London has handed himself in to police. John Tomlin, 24, has been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm with intent after Jameel Mukhtar and Resham Khan were attacked while waiting at traffic lights in Beckton on 21 June. Tomlin entered an east London police station on Sunday and remains in custody, Scotland Yard confirmed. Both victims suffered life-changing injuries to the face and body and Mukhtar was initially placed in an induced coma. The arrest comes after the Metropolitan police released fresh CCTV images of Tomlin on Friday as part of an appeal into his whereabouts. Police had initially ruled out a religious or racial mo...

    The capital's annual Pride parade goes ahead today, with over 40,000 expected to take part in the march through London, which would make it the biggest to date. It begins at 1pm at Portland Place and will travel through Oxford Circus before culminating at Whitehall. The parade, celebrating the LGBT+ community and highlighting the issues it faces, will feature 81 floats and 231 walking groups led by the mayor of London. Oxford Circus is expected to be the busiest area for watching the parade, while a number of bus routes will be affected by the parade. Buses may be temporarily diverted or stopping early around Baker Street, Marble Arch, Hyde Park Corner and Tottenham Court Road among others. More detail on travel planning here. Sadiq Khan said, It’s so important to me that ...

    Theresa May dismisses talk of leadership challenge and insists she will be PM for at least another year. Theresa May has brushed off talk of a leadership challenge over the summer, saying she still expects to be Prime Minister for at least another year. Attending the G20 summit in Hamburg, Mrs May was asked whether other world leaders are convinced she will still be there in a year or two’s time. Mrs May replied: Yes. We will be playing our absolutely full part and I’ll be playing my full part and the issues that we are discussing are important. It comes after the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said earlier this week that Mrs May wanted to stay in post for her full five year term. Until now, Mrs May’s position on her future has been that she will serve as leader for a...

    The seven people who died during the Aldgate station bombing 12 years ago were remembered during a commemoration event this morning. The victims were among 52 killed and more than 700 injured in a terrorist attack on London’s transport network on July 7, 2005, with other bombs detonated on Tubes near Edgware Road and Russell Square, and on a bus in Tavistock Square. Flowers were laid at a memorial in Aldgate station and a minute’s silence observed. Volunteers from the Heart 2 Heart organisation also handed out flowers to commuters. Shaikh Selina Begum, who led the memorial event, said: “For us this is about mending and uniting hearts. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan lays flowers during a service for the 12th anniversary of the 7/7 attack The attacks on London 12 years ago were ...

    A man suffered a terrifying attack when his car window was smashed by a knifeman in Cuba Street. The bizarre assault took place on Wednesday at 9pm in the Isle of Dogs. The driver and his passenger, both 20-year-old men, were sat in their parked car next to a building site and the Bright Horizons Heron Quays day nursery when three men on bikes rode up. One smashed the car window and lunged through it wielding a large knife, which can clearly been seen in the video above. The masked thug tried to stab the passenger, and cut his hand and arm. The other occupant scratched his arm as he fled the car. Their injuries are not life-threatening or life-changing. Police have made no arrests, and enquiries continue.