Criminology and Psychology

  teenager has been shot in the back in east London. The 17-year-old boy was wounded in East India Dock Road, Poplar, in the early hours of the morning. A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "A 17-year-old male had a gunshot wound to the back and is in hospital in a serious condition." The attack happened just before 01:00 GMT, police said. Any witnesses to the shooting should call the Metropolitan Police.

12 men were sentenced for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs throughout east London. Mobile phones used by the gangs to take orders from drug users received more than 30,000 calls in less than two months, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard. Seven of the men were members of a gang calling themselves Box, four were from a gang known as Don, and the final defendant was part of a gang nicknamed Laguna by police because of their choice of transport.The court heard that all of the gangs used high-value hire cars as a means of demonstrating their wealth.They would drive to a meeting place where drug users would be waiting. Each car had one driver, one person responsible for receiving the money and a number of passengers who stored the wraps of drugs in their mouths.When a deal was done they would spit out the wraps and pass them to the buyer, instructing them to "mouth" the wrap immediately in a bid to avoid detection and to destroy DNA evidence.Whenever the cars were stopped by police t...

Riaz Mohammed, used a string of front companies to ship the highly addictive narcotic from Turkey.The Court heard the "sophisticated" operation involved hiding half-kilo packages of the Class A substance in the hollowed out struts of wooden pallets. But despite the gang's best efforts each of the three importations - two to Dover docks and one which arrived at Heathrow airport - were intercepted during an investigation by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).Altogether 24kg of the drug - with an estimated street value of £2.3 million - was seized. In the dock with Mohammed, 41, of Lancaster Road, Leytonstone, east London (25 years), were his lieutenant Ibrahim Janturk, 52, from Tottenham, north London (22 years), and "footsoldiers" Cetin Albar, 35, who lived in Clapton Common, east London, and Emircan Aytac, 48, of Boyson Road, Walworth, south-east London, who got 16 years each.Mohammed was convicted by a jury of three counts of conspiracy to import heroin ...