Anthony France

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

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

Crime

Dad of murdered teen Kiyan Prince sets out vision for young Londoners

Dr Mark Prince OBE has dedicated his life to steering young people away from knife crime since Kiyan, 15, was fatally stabbed trying to break up a fight outside his Edgware school 20 years ago

18 May 2026
Crime

Watch: Prolific M&S shoplifter caught by Met Police recruits in London

Ryan Kiely, 34, was wanted on recall to prison when he targeted a store on Lee High Road

23 Mar 2026
UK

Iranian freed after UK nuclear submarine base arrest

The man and a woman were arrested at HM Naval Base Clyde, known as Faslane, last week

23 Mar 2026
Crime

Met Police faces ‘homophobia’ probe over death of London student, 19

Family of Edward Cornes accuse Scotland Yard of homophobia and failing to learn lessons of serial killer Stephen Port

23 Mar 2026
London

Iran war stoking hatred on streets of London, Sadiq Khan warns

City Hall announces further £875,000 in funding for grassroots organisations to combat extremism

23 Mar 2026
Crime

Drug barons who hid cocaine worth £210k in wax are jailed for 44 years

Humberto Caicedo Ramirez, 53, and Carlos Barbosa Arias, 61, were caught when police raided a laboratory inside a flat in Vauxhall, south London

20 Mar 2026
Crime

Fight breaks out on Elizabeth line after youths told to stop vaping

British Transport Police appeal for witnesses to come forward after incident at Stratford

20 Mar 2026
Crime

Iranian arrested trying to ‘talk his way into’ UK nuclear sub base

The 34-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman were arrested at the HM Naval Base Clyde in Scotland

20 Mar 2026
Crime

‘Distressed’ police officer drove without insurance after row over son

British Transport PC Sebastian Ziolkowski, based at London King’s Cross, was dismissed for gross misconduct

20 Mar 2026
Crime

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor police ‘may look at corruption claims’

Ex-Duke of York, 66, also facing separate preliminary investigation into sex-trafficking allegations, according to reports

20 Mar 2026
Royals

Lady Gabriella’s husband left her £660,000 after taking his own life

Thomas Kingston, 45, died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds at his parents’ Cotswolds home in February 2024

20 Mar 2026
London

Met officer with Sadiq Khan Ulez grudge said ‘Muslims are taking over’

PC Brendan Jones has been dismissed for making a discriminatory comment while on-duty

19 Mar 2026
Crime

Pictured: Teenager, 18, stabbed to death on upmarket street in London

Berkan Demir, 18, collapsed from a neck wound on Lena Gardens, Hammersmith

19 Mar 2026
UK

Gary Glitter, 81, ‘on last legs’ and will likely die behind bars

Update issued on health of paedophile, 81, who was jailed for 16 years in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980

19 Mar 2026
Crime

Moment two-tonne Land Rover reverses onto Met police car

Man, 36, arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving, theft of a motor vehicle and GBH after incident on Somerton Street, Barnet

18 Mar 2026
Crime

Racing team’s £8,000 bike robbed by masked men with ‘big machete’

Manager Tony Poole, 33, confronted armed pair on residential street in south-west London

18 Mar 2026
London

London yoga teacher, 38, dies after ‘drinks spiked’ on Thai holiday

Tom Pardhy, from Bethnal Green, has died while travelling around the Asian country with Naomi Raksha, 31

18 Mar 2026
Crime

Woman charged with murder of banker found dead at their London home

Joanna Cierpka is accused of killing Henrik Slotsaa, 52, at Newington Causeway in Elephant and Castle

17 Mar 2026
Crime

One-man crimewave banned from all Boots branches for £55k theft spree

Prolific shoplifter Alfie Ronaldson, 22, was wanted by at least four police forces in London and the South East

17 Mar 2026
Crime

Teenager, 18, stabbed to death in west London street of £2.5m homes

The victim collapsed at a residential address on Lena Gardens, Hammersmith

16 Mar 2026
Crime

Met Police chief to press for Mandelson documents during US visit

Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley also raised the issue with America’s ambassador Warren Stephens

16 Mar 2026