Crime – Southwark News

Calls for more Met Police funding as shoplifting cases triple in London since 2020

Kumail Jaffer - Local Democracy Reporter — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:44:00 +0000

Shoplifting in London has trebled in the last five years, new data has revealed as the Mayor of London was urged to lobby the government for more funding for the Met Police. Research from the Liberal Democrats showed that there were were 93,626 cases of shoplifting raised with the Metropolitan Police in 2024/2025 – up […]

Man extradited from Nigeria over 2018 Bermondsey murder of Joshua Boadu

Evie Flynn — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:53:59 +0000

A 25-year-old man has been extradited from Nigeria and charged this week with the 2018 murder of Joshua Boadu in Bermondsey. Joshua, who locally was affectionately known as SJ, was stabbed in broad daylight on Linsey Street, near the Blue Market, in Bermondsey on 11 June 2018. The 23-year-old was rushed to King’s College Hospital with […]

Five men convicted of murdering Giovanny Rendon Bedoya in Walworth last year

Evie Flynn — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:10:59 +0000

Five men were found guilty of murdering Giovanny Rendon Bedoya after he was chased and stabbed in a ‘brutal attack’ on the streets of Walworth last April. The Old Bailey heard the 21-year-old was stabbed amid rising tensions between two groups in the area. Giovanny was on found with stab wounds behind a block of […]

Health of little boy thrown from Tate modern takes a ‘sad step backwards’

Evie Flynn — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:58:39 +0000

The rehabilitation young boy who was thrown 100ft off the Tate Modern balcony is ‘proving longer and more difficult than expected’, after an update was shared by his family. The unnamed French child was on holiday with his parents on on 4 August 2019 when 17-year-old Jony Bravery threw him from a balcony on the […]

Woman dies and three arrested after Deptford ‘hit-and-run’

Staff Reporter — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:52:56 +0000

A woman in her 20s has died and three people have been arrested in what police describe as a hit and run in Deptford, writes Rich Brann… The young woman was sadly pronounced dead at the scene yesterday evening, Tuesday April 14 and police are now appealing for witnesses. They said were called at 6.56pm […]

Teen charged with murder after shooting of 14-year-old Eghosa Ogbebor

Evie Flynn — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:23:45 +0000

A 16-year-old boy from Romford has been charged with the murder of 14-year-old Eghosa Ogbebor after a shooting in Woolwich last Thursday (2 April). The 16-year-old was initially released on bail but was arrested again on Thursday 9 April and charged with Eghosa’s murder on Friday 10 April. The teenager was first arrested on the […]

Teenage boy shot in Camberwell

Evie Flynn — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:15:25 +0000

A 17-year-old was rushed to hospital with a gunshot wound and two others were injured after a shooting in Camberwell last night (Wednesday 8 April). Emergency services were called to Denmark Road at around 9:35pm after reports of ‘gunshots and fighting’. The London Ambulance Service arrived within three minutes and treated a 17-year-old boy for […]

A total of six arrests after 14-year-old was shot in broad daylight

Kevin Quinn — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:19:00 +0000

Two more teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 14-year-old boy was shot dead in broad daylight in South London last week. Eghosa Ogbebor died in Lord Warwick Street, Woolwich, at about 3.40pm on Thursday April 2. A 16-year-old boy and a 19-year-old were arrested last Saturday, taking the total arrested on […]

Police name Old Kent Road stabbing victim as Aurelio Mejia and appeal for witnesses

Evie Flynn — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:25:03 +0000

Police have released images of 26-year-old Aurelio Mejia, who was stabbed to death outside a night off the Old Kent Road in the early hours of Easter Monday. He was found with stab wounds and pronounced dead outside a venue in Ruby Street, a largely industrial area near the old gas works on the South […]

‘Cane rat and antelope meat’ seized in raid involving the Peckham Rye Safer Neighbourhood Team

Staff Reporter — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:13:50 +0000

Cane rat and other “potentially unsafe” meat including antelope were seized after a raid on a property, according to officers who took part in a joint operation involving the National Food Crime Unit (NFCU), writes Rich Brann.. In the recent raid police from Peckham Rye Safer Neighbourhood Team said they have confiscated around 11 kilos of […]