Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

EXPLAINED: Wood green crown court | Rare Historical Photos

Ex-Church of Scotland member guilty of decades of sexual offences against young men

A former member of an Airdrie church has been convicted of sexual offences against four young men spanning more than 40 years.

The National (Scotland) · Jul 13

Police appeal for further victims as senior London church figure guilty of historic sexual offences

Police believe church deacon John Grant, 77, may have preyed on other victims after sexual assaults on young men while working in north London

Evening Standard · Jul 13

Violent criminal who killed ‘kind’ grandfather carried out vicious stabbing weeks earlier

Rasheed Rahman was left free to murder Mark Carroll despite following two brothers off a bus and launching an attack weeks earlier

The Independent UK · Jul 9

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Hackney man admits threatening to 'decapitate' Jewish schoolchildren

Mohamed Ullah also pleaded guilty to assault and to causing a flood at Homerton Hospital

Evening Standard · Jun 26

Revealed: How London nursery worker Vincent Chan’s horrific campaign of child abuse was uncovered by chance

Paedophile Vincent Chan, 45, attacked girls so defenceless they ‘didn’t have a voice’ at a Bright Horizons nursery in West Hampstead and downloaded a million indecent images

Evening Standard · Feb 12

‘Every parent’s worst nightmare’: Nursery paedophile who used work iPad to record abuse of toddlers jailed for 18 years

Predatory paedophile Vincent Chan, 45, targeted girls and women aged between two and 70 in a campaign of abuse and voyeurism

The Independent UK · Feb 12

Paedophile London nursery worker Vincent Chan faces jail after pleading guilty

Chan, 45, of Finchley, north London, will be sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court on Thursday

Evening Standard · Feb 12

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Ex-Spandau Ballet singer Ross Wild found guilty of rape

Ross Davidson, 37, who used the stage name Ross Wild, was found guilty of raping a woman and attempting to rape another

The Independent UK · Jan 28

Vincent Chan The Nursery Paedophile Pleads Guilty — Video Evidence Shows Abuse Filmed on Children's iPads

45-year-old, nursery worker turned paedophile, Vincent Chan, pleads guilty to sexually abusing children during his appearance at Wood Green Crown Court. Evidence found that he also filmed the heinous crimes on the nursery iPads.

International Business Times UK · Dec 4, 2025

Woman scammed Islington couple with sick child out of £230k to fund 'lavish' lifestyle

Haydee Daniel convinced the couple to send her money while acting as a fake contact at Barclays bank

Evening Standard · Oct 29, 2023

Boy, 16, raped woman and targeted eight others in Hackney Marshes sex attacks

Zyroam Allen, now 18, carried out the string of attacks in the space of 13 days

Evening Standard · Oct 10, 2023

Sex attacker jailed after targeting lone women in Camden

A sex attacker has been jailed after police swooped when they recognised his clothing through CCTV footage from one of his crimes.

Evening Standard · Sep 21, 2023

Victim speaks out as ex-Metropolitan police officer jailed for rapes - OLD

Adam Provan raped a 16-year-old in woodland as she clutched at a tree for comfort. He also attacked a female police officer.

The Independent UK · Aug 22, 2023

Man convicted of beating flatmate to death with clawhammer in Tottenham

A man has been found guilty of battering his flatmate to death with a clawhammer and stabbing him repeatedly in a “brutal and violent” attack.

Evening Standard · Jun 8, 2023

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Irish Mirror · May 6, 2023

Notorious Limerick gangster Ger Dundon jailed over kidnap and blackmail plot

Ger Dundon, 36, also known as Darren McClean, was described by the sentencing judge at Wood Green Crown Court as a 'career criminal who played a central figure in the events' that occurred during the plot to kidnap and blackmail two brothers.

Evening Standard · Mar 6, 2023

Serving Met Police officer sexually assaulted colleague while on duty

Serving Met Police officer Archit Sharma convicted of sexual assault on colleague

Evening Standard · Jan 30, 2023

Woman who strangled and sexually assaulted girl in Tottenham jailed

A “highly dangerous” woman who strangled and sexually assaulted another young girl has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Evening Standard · Jan 30, 2023

Teenage gang who stole more than £1million of cars in ‘terrifying’ north London robberies jailed

They would follow and surround luxury cars before threatening drivers at knifepoint

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Daily Mirror · Sep 22, 2022

Harry Styles 'constantly on his guard' after infatuated stalker forced her way into home

A court heard today that Harry Styles was caused a "great deal of anxiety" after his stalker was able to get into the ground of his London home and had to be removed by staff in the house, while Harry was upstairs

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2022

Father did not think baby turning blue was cause to dial 999, murder trial hears

A police interview with Darren Hurrell, 25, was read to jurors at Wood Green Crown Court on Monday.

The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2022

Baby ‘murdered by parents days after hospital discharge despite concerns for mother’s temper’

Ten-week-old Lily-Mai Hurrell Saint George died just six days after she was released into her parents’ care

Evening Standard · May 12, 2022

Three organised crime group members sentenced for selling cannabis edibles online

Three members of an organised crime group that sold sweets containing cannabis on social media have been sentenced.

Manchester Evening News · Apr 1, 2022

Judge slams ‘entitled’ son of Liam Gallagher over late-night Tesco Express brawl

Gene Appleton Gallagher and Sonny Starkey were described as “young men thinking they can get what they want by misbehaving”

The Independent UK · Apr 1, 2022

Judge brands Gene Gallagher and Sonny Starkey ‘entitled’ after late night Tesco Express brawl

The pair were given a bound over order meaning they promise to ‘keep the peace and be of good behaviour’ for 12 months or pay £500

Daily Mirror · Apr 1, 2022

Liam Gallagher's son and Ringo Starr's grandson 'threw groceries' in drunken Tesco brawl

The son of Oasis legend Liam Gallagher and The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr have been labelled “entitled young men” by a judge, after a drunken fracas in a Tesco Express, which saw them throw groceries on the floor and attacked by a worker.

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Crown Prosecution Service

Wood Green Crown Court

25 stories

BRIGHT

13 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.