Tottenham based Kemani Duggan, 22, was arrested at Gatwick Airport on Saturday 13 January and appeared at Thames Magistrates Court last Monday charged with possession of a handgun.
Middle-aged Highgate author Jennie Ensor learned "the mechanics of a drug deal" and how to make crack on her kitchen table while researching her novel Silenced
In Body, Russ Millions (pictured above) and Tion Wayne rap: ‘Free Big A, he’s too militant’ which online followers of the singers have interpreted to be a reference to a gang member currently in prison on firearm offences
Stab first then talk.On flight-mode when we walk.Chest or back we’ll rip his face offI’ll put holes in your back.’
The lyrics are brutal and the music is ‘drill’ a raw and aggressive form of British rap with accompanying videos that feature balaclava-wearing men waving weapons and detailing the bloody reality of life on the streets.
For Sharon Kendall, the words of the song Dip First (‘dip’ being slang for ‘stab’), by a drill rapper associated with a gang in the Rayners Lane area of North-West London, the lyrics were heart-wrenchingly close to home.
My week on patrol with Britain s armed response police
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By: Nick Rufford
Terror attacks, gang wars, armed robbery as crime involving weapons surges, Britain s armed response officers have to be ready for anything. Nick Rufford joins them for a week. The first call of the evening comes on the radio at 8.36pm, less than 30 minutes after the armed response vehicle (ARV) rolled out on patrol from the prison-like gates of a grey police building in Lambeth, south London. We are on our way to a reported stabbing. A male youth is lying injured in a street in nearby Tooting. Those are all the details we have. He could be the victim of a gang skirmish, a targeted assault, or more chillingly, a terrorist attack.