The Latest Breaking News from Met Police

'Mind the Grab': New campaign warns of threat from phone thieves on Oxford Street

Campaign launched as figures reveal a phone was stolen every 15 minutes in Westminster last year

Evening Standard · Aug 6, 2025

Nine arrests as protesters clash outside Islington asylum hotel

Masked protesters had clashed with rivals outside an Islington hotel housing asylum seekers

Evening Standard · Aug 2, 2025

Greenwich nightclub has license suspended after 'serious' sexual assaults reported

Lewisham Council held a licensing committee on July 21, in which the licence for Dokis Lounge, previously Star & Garter, on New Cross Road, was suspended

Evening Standard · Jul 31, 2025

Lives are in dangers, warns Coroner as he slams 18-month delay in dog walker hit-and-run death investigation

Maria Theobald was out walking her dogs when she was hit by a car

Evening Standard · Jul 24, 2025

Epping disorder a ‘signal flare’ for further unrest this summer, police federation warns as protests continue

The head of the Police Federation, Tiff Lynch, said officers were likely to be taken away from neighbourhood duties

Evening Standard · Jul 24, 2025

Music video-shoot raiders guilty of double murder

Leonardo Reid, 15, and Klevi Shekaj, 23, were fatally stabbed and Abdullah Abdullahi, 28, was badly hurt in the incident in London in June 2023.

Evening Standard · Jul 23, 2025

Man faces life sentence for killing a stranger on a night out in east London

Hamza Kamali, 29, was found guilty of murdering 38-year-old Saley Beya outside a venue in Romford Road in the early hours of Saturday August 10 last year

Evening Standard · Jul 23, 2025

Police officers in Bristol faced ‘worst nightmare’ in suitcase murders

The suitcases contained the body parts of two murder victims.

Evening Standard · Jul 21, 2025

Met Police tried to prosecute itself for not answering its own letters

The Met Police charged itself with crimes, then abandoned the cases

Evening Standard · Jul 19, 2025

Explosion at law enforcement training facility in Los Angeles kills three as federal investigation launched

The blast happened at the Biscailuz Center Academy Training in the east of the city on Friday morning

Evening Standard · Jul 18, 2025