The Latest Breaking News from Metropolitan Police

Met pledges zero-tolerance on bullying and harassment after Charing Cross probe

Details of messages from chat groups including references to rape, violence against women, and racist and homophobic abuse were revealed this year.

The Independent UK · Apr 7, 2022

Every misleading statement Boris Johnson has made to parliament since the general election

Misleading the country: The prime minister has failed formally to correct at least 17 false statements since the 2019 general election

The Independent UK · Apr 7, 2022

Daniel Laskos: Four jailed for total of 81 years over ‘frenzied’ knife murder of teenager

Prosecutor William Emlyn Jones said Mr Laskos suffered a frightening attack

Evening Standard · Apr 7, 2022

Partygate: Javid dodges questions over whether Boris Johnson presided over ‘widespread criminality’

Keir Starmer made the accusation amid Met investigation into 12 events held during Covid restrictions

The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2022

'Death of my teenage son torments me every day - I want him to knock on my door'

Richard Okorogheye, 19, was discovered in Epping Forest on 5 April 2021 after going missing from his home in west London for over a week and now the Met's initial response is being investigated

Daily Mirror · Apr 5, 2022

Former ethics chief issues apology after being fined for party during lockdown

She was among the initial group of people to be issued with an FPN following the Metropolitan Police investigation

Wales Online · Apr 5, 2022

Ukraine: Metropolitan Police receives potential evidence of war crimes

Force has received undisclosed number of ‘referrals relating to alleged war crimes in Ukraine’ since appeal launched in March

The Independent UK · Apr 4, 2022

Woman dies after eating ONE gummy 'cannabis sweet' she bought on messaging app

The Metropolitan Police said a 23-year-old woman purchased the "gummies" - which they suspect to contain a synthetic form of Class B drug cannabis - through a messaging app on her phone before they were delivered to her home in Ilford, east London on March 29

Daily Mirror · Apr 4, 2022

Return of conventional politics could be bad news for Boris Johnson

We might just have found the perfect metaphor for this government. Yesterday the news broke that Boris Johnson’s former head of propriety and ethics had been fined by the Metropolitan Police over a karaoke party in the Cabinet Office at which there was a drunken brawl. As many as 20…

Evening Standard · Apr 4, 2022

Fines issued for No 10 party on eve of Prince Philip’s funeral – but minister says world has ‘moved on’

Cabinet minister defends PM and warns against ‘self-indulgent leadership contest’

The Independent UK · Apr 4, 2022