A grim weekend across London has seen four people stabbed and a man left dead after a disturbance. This only includes incidents that Newsquest London is aware of and has reported on. The incidents unfolded between February 28 and March 2 in Lewisham,

The police watchdog is to investigate the death of man restrained by officers attending reports of a “child being assaulted” inside a house in south London. The 45-year-old suffered a medical emergency after “actively resisting” police at a property in High Street, South Norwood.

A man has died nearly a week after a fire in a block of flats in London. London Fire Brigade were called to a first floor flat in Venner Road, Lewisham, shortly before 6am on Tuesday, February 18. While only a small part of the flat was damaged by the fire,

Police have arrested two men, aged 23 and 25, on suspicion of murder over the attack in Bodney Road, Hackney on Tuesday evening.