Anthony France

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Anthony France is Crime Correspondent for the Evening Standard and is based in London

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Anthony France is Crime Correspondent for the Evening Standard and is based in London

Crime

Children’s social worker who got boy, 15, to sell drugs jailed

Chloe Scott and Miles Addy sourced a firearm linked back to a murder investigation, Scotland Yard said

13 Jun 2025
LIVE

Air India crash survivor reveals how he escaped plane: 'I crawled out'

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh says ‘I still can't believe how I survived’ as he tells how plane ‘slammed into a building and exploded’

13 Jun 2025
Crime

Man, 30, dies after double shooting in Hammersmith

It follows another gun attack where the victim arrived at a hospital in Hackney on Thursday morning

13 Jun 2025
World

Who are the Air India plane crash victims?

Two entire families from London are among the passengers who perished in the plane crash

13 Jun 2025
Crime

Moment killer slashes at police with sword after stabbing boy to death

Shocking footage shows Marcus Arduini Monzo wielding the weapon before he was Tasered

13 Jun 2025
London Growth Plan announcement
Crime

Reeves slaps down Khan for saying Met Police will have to impose cuts

London mayor Sir Sadiq warns the capital will have fewer officers in a rare ‘red on red’ clash with the Labour chancellor

12 Jun 2025
Crime

Tory MP praised for pursuing suspected thief down London street

Shadow minister Gareth Davies intervened when he witnessed crime in Maida Vale on Saturday

12 Jun 2025
Crime

Officer who called O’Connor’s daughter hot’ faces misconduct hearing

Detective Chief Inspector James Mason sexually harassed mugging victim Kristina O’Connor by saying she was his ‘favourite Camden victim of crime’

11 Jun 2025
World

British wine tycoon found dead in his luxury Spanish villa

Tributes have been paid to Tarik Wildman whose ‘passion for life was something that others could only envy’

11 Jun 2025
London

Mother sues council after 150kg park litter bin crushes her foot

Linda Kelsey forced to give up work and collection of 17 high-heeled shoes due to injuries sustained in Poplar, east London

10 Jun 2025
Crime

Revealed: 700 children as young as 10 take deadly weapons to schools

As 371 safer schools officers withdrawn across capital, Ben Kinsella Trust says young people may be ‘put at risk to save money’

10 Jun 2025
Crime

Man gets life for ‘senseless’ murder of talented footballer, 32

Theo Porteous was stabbed multiple times outside a block of flats near Battersea Power Station

10 Jun 2025
World

Trump declares 'bring in the troops' as protesters torch cars in LA

Trump said the soldiers “need to make sure there’s law and order” as chaos erupts across LA

9 Jun 2025
Politics

Siddiq requests meeting with Bangladeshi leader over corruption claims

Hampstead and Highgate Labour MP Siddiq denied wrongdoing, calling the probe ‘this fantasy investigation’

8 Jun 2025
Politics

Children could face new two-hour social media app limit and curfew

Technology secretary Peter Kyle looking ‘addictive nature of some of the apps and smartphones’

8 Jun 2025
*** BESTPIX *** 'Freedom Flotilla' And Greta Thunberg Prepare To Depart Italy For Gaza
World

Israel orders military to stop Thunberg’s boat as six killed in Gaza

Climate campaigner Thunberg joined the Madleen’s crew to ‘challenge escalating war crimes’

8 Jun 2025
UK

Zia Yusuf returns to Reform UK two days after quitting

Former party chairman Yusuf said his decision to leave on Thursday was a ‘mistake’ and the result of ‘exhaustion’

8 Jun 2025
London

Protests after death of baby who lived in ‘mouldy, damp’ Camden flat

Akram Mohammed’s parents claim ‘no one’ from Notting Hill Genesis helped depite repeated requests for repairs

7 Jun 2025
Officer Killed Friendly Fire
World

Police officer accidentally shot and killed by colleague in Chicago

Krystal Rivera, 36, survived by a 10-year-old daughter

7 Jun 2025
Crime

Body found in search for Colombian woman, 46, missing from Ilford

Yajaira Castro Mendez had not been seen by her family or friends who raised the alarm, police said

7 Jun 2025
LIVE

Thousands taking part in huge anti-austerity march in central London

The People’s Assembly Against Austerity said it expected a huge turnout in the capital to ‘send a message’ to Sir Keir Starmer

7 Jun 2025