The Latest Breaking News from Metropolitan Police

Biggest ever UK fraud operation busts phone scammers who stole millions

One victim lost £3m in an international fraud ring which has been brought down by detectives

Evening Standard · Nov 24, 2022

Sadiq Khan to face second grilling over Cressida Dick’s resignation from Met Police

Sadiq Khan has been formally summonsed to answer questions from the London Assembly over his role in Cressida Dick’s resignation for a second time.

Evening Standard · Nov 22, 2022

Moment hero restaurant owner wrestles with knifeman in shop

Restaurant owner Julius Cools wrestled with knifeman year after son stabbed to death

The Independent UK · Nov 22, 2022

Police chief says ‘big proportion’ of Met’s officers ‘not properly deployable’

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has been head of Britain’s biggest police force since September.

The Independent UK · Nov 18, 2022

Chilling CCTV shows Jordan McSweeney stalk Zara Aleena before murdering her on walk home

Jordan McSweeney, 29, attacked the 35-year-old law graduate just nine days after he was released from prison, stalking her through the street of East London as she walked home

Daily Mirror · Nov 18, 2022

Evil predator Jordan McSweeney was wanted by police when he murdered Zara Aleena

Just two days before law graduate Zara Aleena was killed, Jordan McSweeney was the subject of a recall to prison, and has 28 convictions for 69 separate offences

Daily Mirror · Nov 18, 2022

Man beat girlfriend to death on Christmas Day as she watched TV

Neuropathologist said Yahya Aboukar might have beat partner to death with barbell or claw hammer

The Independent UK · Nov 18, 2022

Mum creates women's safety app after being a victim of flashing when young

'The app shouldn't have to exist but I'd rather do something that can help women, than nothing at all'

Wales Online · Nov 17, 2022

5% of police strip-searches carried out on children, new figures show

The release follows the Child Q scandal earlier this year, in which a 15-year-old schoolgirl was strip-searched by police

The Independent UK · Nov 17, 2022

‘Terrified’ mother and child held at knife-point after intruders break into Wandsworth home

Detectives have released footage of two young men they want to trace after thugs held a “terrified” woman and her child at knifepoint after forcing their way into the family home in south west London.

Evening Standard · Nov 17, 2022