• Battersea rioter whose mum is threatened with eviction from council home for his actions gets jail

  By akadri at 20:39 on 10/01/12

  

  A Battersea teenager whose mum has been told she could lose her council home as a result of his involvement in the Clapham Junction riot has been jailed for 11 months. 18-year-old Christian Daniel Sartain-Clarke admitted burglary after he was caught in a Currys store room on the night of August 8th-9th 2011 when looting swept the capital. He suffers from poor health and the judge said his actions were out of character: "You are a...

• Prince Harry rushed to Battersea to help a friend who had been mugged

  By akadri at 17:13 on 18/12/11

  

  Prince Harry drove to Battersea to try and help a friend who was mugged while speaking to him on the phone. The Wattisham-based pilot heard his friend Thomas van Straubenzee being robbed, according to the Press Association. He found Mr van Straubenzee at the local police station where he was reporting the mugging.   The mugging of the Blackberry phone took place on 30th November. A suspect was arrested and later...

• Police's 'Most Wanted' Clapham Junction rioters

  By akadri at 13:52 on 17/12/11

  

  Detectives hunting those who took part in August's violent disturbances in Clapham Junction have issued new CCTV images of their top ten most wanted suspects. The images, which can be seen here, were published yesterday (Wednesday), and show the faces of ten people they want to trace in connection with the looting of shops in Clapham Junction town centre. One of the images shows one looter brazenly carrying off a large...

• Two men charged with murder after man beaten to death in Battersea

  By akadri at 23:57 on 14/11/11

  

  Two people have been charged with murder after a man was beaten to death in Battersea last Monday. Cameron McFly, 37, and Danny Samuel, 35, both of Herlwyn Gardens, Hebdon Road, SW17, appeared at court charged with the murder of 37-year-old Richard Ward of Battersea. They were arrested last Wednesday.

• Lord Boateng's son sentenced for sexual assault in Battersea

  By akadri at 18:38 on 14/11/11

  

  The son of Britain's first black cabinet minister Lord Boateng has been jailed for nearly four years after being found guilty of committing a sexual assault in Battersea. A jury had found Benjamin Kwahu Boateng, 27, of Crawford Street in London guilty of one count of sexual assault by penetration at an earlier hearing. During his trial, the court heard that on Saturday 18th September 2010, the 22-year-old victim and her friend spent...

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