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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Sonja Jessup

    Youth violence rising in south London, police tell BBC (opens the original)

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    "There are parents who think next time we come to their door, it will be to tell them their child is dead." I'm told this by PC Zoe Ticehurst and her colleague, Det Con Faisal El Issaoui. They are showing me around the neighbourhoods of Lambeth and Southwark in south London, where some children are highly vulnerable to the gangs who operate there. El Issaoui explained: "It's very hard for a lot of young people who are brought up on these estates. That's the only thing they can see. "Unfortunatel

  2. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Sonja Jessup

    How 'largest phone smuggling network' was uncovered by Met (opens the original)

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    It started with a single stolen mobile phone, found inside a sealed parcel, inside a warehouse near Heathrow airport. It ended in police dismantling what detectives believe to be the UK's largest phone smuggling network. The device had been electronically tracked to the warehouse not by officers, but by a victim who had it stolen from them just before Christmas in 2024 and alerted the DHL courier company. "The phone was ringing in the package," explains Commander Andy Featherstone, the Metropoli

  3. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Sonja Jessup

    Hornsey church deacon John Grant jailed for decades of sexual abuse (opens the original)

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    A church deacon and youth group leader from north London has been sentenced to eight and a half years after grooming and sexually assaulting young men over several decades. John Grant, 77, of Hornsey, was convicted of three counts of sexual assault, six counts of indecent assault and two counts of causing another person to engage in non-penetrative sexual activity between 1970 and 2008. Judge Emma Deacon KC said Grant carried out "a sustained manipulation of two young men" who he "knew to be vul

  4. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Sonja Jessup

    Seeking 'change' and 'connection' for Jewish New Year (opens the original)

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    It's a Friday morning at the Karma Bread Bakery in north London and Tami Isaacs Pearce and her team are "mad busy", rolling, kneading and braiding dough in preparation for the Jewish New Year holiday of Rosh Hashanah. "My bakers will be working around the clock for about four days," she says cheerfully, as yet another batch of challah is carried to the oven. "We fill it with apple and cinnamon for a sweet, abundant new year because that's what we wish for. "It's really a time for family and for

  5. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Sonja Jessup

    Mina Smallman says PM must act on Simon Levy case failings (opens the original)

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    "It actually triggered me. You become so angry and frustrated that yet another family is going to have to suffer what we suffered," says Mina Smallman. It is six years since her daughters Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, were murdered, but it is now another case, which has cost the lives of two more women, that has left her "spiralling". Simon Levy, a convicted sex offender, murdered two women, raped a third, and sexually assaulted others on London's public transport after police, prose

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