Appeal made by parents of Aarron McKoy, who was shot dead on 1 January

Hackney Police’s Robbery Team seeking information following three separate robberies in Clapton

Junior Saunders pleaded guilty to violent disorder, criminal damage to a police car and burglary in Hackney on 8 August

Police investigating the death of Tommy Lawrence found stabbed outside the Glyn Arms in Clapton have charged a man with murder

Ronan Bennett spent two years interviewing gang members in east London for his powerfully personal TV drama, Top Boy. Here he describes their hidden, hopeless world – and the lengths they’ll go to escape from it

Youth worker Emeka Egbuonu’s book has much to teach policymakers following the riots, writes Rachel Williams

“You could see it coming…the kids don’t feel like they’re part of anything, they don’t feel they’re being heard”

Channel 4 video: a local filmmaker talks to two members of a gang about possible reasons for the riot and their relationship with the police

Half the borough’s children live in poverty. Missing, too, are the summer courses that kept minds and hands busy

“These teenagers have got nothing better to do… they think that they’re well hard”