Family Frustrated with Police Hire PI

An east London family is accusing the police of gross incompetence for failing to arrest a suspect for the brutal attack and murder of local businessman Harry Henman.

His widow, Charlotte Henman, and her son Llewellyn told the Daily Dispatch that police had shown a lack of interest in trying to solve the murder, which took place in December 2006.

A local private investigator had even tracked down a suspect and got a confession from him, she claimed.

“The police are completely useless,” said Llewellyn. “They have been given all the information they need but keep coming up with different excuses of why they cannot arrest the man.”

Read the rest of the story at The Dispatch Online.

Cove Rock Estate "Burglar Ring" Bust

Four men, including a Pakistani shop owner, were yesterday arrested during a raid in Orange Grove and in the East London CBD.

The arrests were the culmination of six months of investigations into a spate of burglaries at homes in Cove Rock Estate.

The suspects, aged 19 to 21, pointed out to police a cellphone shop in North Street where they said they sold cellphones and laptops allegedly stolen from homes.

One of the suspects told a private investigator who had tracked them down how he had got into the investigator’s house and stolen a laptop, cellphones and PlayStation games.