The Latest Breaking News from Metropolitan Police

More than 50 fines for Downing Street lockdown parties, police announce

Identities of those facing fixed penalty notices have not been revealed

The Independent UK · Apr 12, 2022

Fifty Partygate fines handed out in police probe into Downing Street parties

Boris Johnson faces fresh calls to resign as a further 30 fines are set to be issued by the Met Police Downing Street parties unit - 'shredding' the PM's claims no laws were broken

Daily Mirror · Apr 12, 2022

High Court judges throw out Met Police’s ‘hopeless’ attempt to appeal Sarah Everard vigil judgment

Vigil organiser says police should ‘finally admit they were wrong’ to claim vigil was illegal

The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2022

Terrorist guilty of ‘cold and calculating’ murder of MP Sir David Amess

London-born Ali Harbi Ali, 26, was convicted of carrying out the atrocity at Sir David’s constituency surgery in Essex in October last year.

The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2022

Sister of murdered Sabina Nessa says if family were white they would have been treated better

‘My sister didn’t get as many headlines – maybe was it down to her ethnicity?’ says Jebina Islam

The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2022

Sabina Nessa: We would have been treated better if we were white, says family

The sister of murdered teacher Sabina Nessa has said their family would have been treated better if they were white.

Evening Standard · Apr 11, 2022

Family's plea as £20,000 reward offered 12 years after man was shot dead

Police say there is no obvious motive for the 37-year-old’s killing

Wales Online · Apr 11, 2022

Extinction Rebellion activists arrested as police clear bridges

The police made dozens of arrests as they cleared two London bridges of Extinction Rebellion protesters.

Evening Standard · Apr 10, 2022

Extinction Rebellion stage mass sit-down protest in central London

The demonstrators sat down on roads around Oxford Circus chanting ‘save our planet’

The Independent UK · Apr 9, 2022

Neighbour jailed after daughter woke to sound of dad being bludgeoned to death

Anthony Rooks was killed be neighbour Sable Thomas with brandy bottle - just three days before his wife’s funeral

The Independent UK · Apr 9, 2022