Chris Kaba was a 'core member' successful the notorious '67' South London pack and a drill rapper who bragged connected camera astir knifing rivals, MailOnline tin uncover today.
The 67, erstwhile championed by Tim Westwood and adjacent nominated for a Music of Black Origin (Mobo) Award, are linked to shootings, stabbings and murders - arsenic good arsenic blackmail, extortion and moving region lines drugs networks crossed the Home Counties.
Kaba's ain convulsive transgression vocation began erstwhile helium was 13 erstwhile helium turned up to a thoroughfare combat wielding a ample room weapon - but jurors successful Met Police marksman Martyn Blake's execution proceedings were told Chris was an expectant begetter moving successful the gathering trade.
Kaba graduated from weapon crime to weapon transgression arsenic helium got older - but was aboriginal stabbed himself astatine his ain 19th day enactment erstwhile rivals to his Brixton Hill pack launched an onslaught wherever 2 of his friends were changeable arsenic portion of a bloody turf war.
He survived weapon wounds to the tummy but refused to co-operate with constabulary trying to find the perpetrators.
And helium himself was the gunman successful a meticulously organised deed connected a rival successful a packed nightclub conscionable a week earlier helium was changeable by a Met marksman successful September 2022, it emerged today.
Chris Kaba successful a drill rap video wherever helium appears to unreal to occurrence a gun
Chris Kaba's rap sanction was 'Mad Itch' oregon 'Itch' and helium released drill rap songs bragging astir gunning down rivals and selling drugs. A inactive from 1 of his videos is pictured above, for the opus Numerous Times, wherever helium bragged astir stabbing a rival
Kaba was a subordinate of The 67, championed by Tim Westwood (pictured) and adjacent nominated for a Music of Black Origin (Mobo) Award successful 2016
Kaba had six convictions earlier helium died - the archetypal coming erstwhile helium was successful twelvemonth 8 oregon 9 successful schoolhouse - and helium had served situation sentences, including for firearms offences and possessing knives.
But his transgression past was lone revealed aft an Old Bailey justice rejected a plea from his household to support it concealed successful the aftermath of the acquittal of Met Police marksman Martyn Blake, who was cleared of his execution successful conscionable 3 hours connected Tuesday.
Former Met detective Peter Bleksley said contiguous that Kaba was 'a vocation criminal' and 'a vocation gangster' with the 'notorious' 67 gang.
'I'm truthful delighted that contiguous the information astir Chris Kaba tin yet beryllium told', helium told The Sun.
Kaba, who died aged 23, has been unmasked arsenic a feared and 'core member' of the astir unsafe thoroughfare pack in South London.
Scotland Yard judge his convulsive offending continued until conscionable days earlier his decease wherever helium changeable the subordinate of rival pack - archetypal successful a Bethnal Green nightclub and again aft chasing him down the thoroughfare outside.
In a shocking onslaught captured connected CCTV, the gangster started firing astatine Brandon Malutshi, chasing him extracurricular the Oval Space Club, with 1 of the bullets hitting him successful the leg.
Had helium not been killed, Mr Kaba would person stood proceedings astatine the Old Bailey for the attempted execution of Mr Malutshi who miraculously survived the nightclub shooting connected August 30, 2022.
His accomplices were aboriginal convicted for their relation successful the shooting during a proceedings wherever reporting was restricted to debar immoderate prejudge to jurors successful the Blake case.
CCTV footage showed Mr Kaba spotting his rival astatine the nine earlier grabbing a container from a friend, pulling connected a azygous achromatic mitt past covering his face.
He past snatched the pistol from the container and fired crossed the dancefloor astatine Malutshi, who sprinted away. Mr Kaba chased him and fired a volley of bullets astatine his target, hitting him successful the limb conscionable beneath the buttock.
Mr Malutshi, a subordinate of the '17' pack considered The 67's main rivals, was flown by aerial ambulance to the Royal London Hospital and survived the shooting, yet discharging himself against aesculapian proposal with a tiny slug fragment inactive successful his close leg.
Just six days earlier his death, Mr Kaba (in blue) brazenly gunned down a rival successful the mediate of a crowded nightclub during a bloody feud for power of a profitable region lines cause network
Mr Kaba (marked successful blue) chased the unfortunate extracurricular the nightclub, shooting him again
Mr Kaba's associates, Shemiah Bell and Marcus Pottinger, some 31, were recovered blameworthy of wounding with intent successful February portion Connel Bamgboye, 29, was convicted of possession of a firearm with intent to origin fearfulness of violence.
But it was Mr Kaba who had pulled the trigger arsenic portion of a vicious warfare for power implicit a 'county lines' cause dealing web which raged betwixt the 2 gangs.
It has besides emerged that the bluish Audi Q8 driven by Kaba connected the nighttime helium died connected September 5 2022 had been flagged to constabulary arsenic being progressive successful a shooting successful Bromley 4 months earlier wherever 2 men were again changeable successful the legs with a shotgun collected successful the £75,000 luxury 4x4.
It was besides reportedly spotted astatine the country of a shooting successful Brixton connected September 4, 2022, wherever a antheral was seen stuffing a shotgun into his trousers.
The 23-year-old was a father-to-be rapper and much-loved lad - and his decease has caused immense choler successful the capital's achromatic communities with stars including Stormzy supporting his families' conflict for justice.
West Ham and England defender Aaron Wan-Bissaka, 26, has donated astatine slightest £20,000 to online fundraiser successful representation of Chris, who went to the aforesaid schoolhouse arsenic him successful Croydon.
Former Labour person Jeremy Corbyn attended 1 of the Justice for Chris Kaba rallies successful 2022 - pictured adjacent to Parliament with his fist aloft - but the now-independent MP has not yet commented connected Sgt Blake's acquittal.
One of the group's highest illustration rappers is Cassie Wuta-Ofei, amended known arsenic LD oregon Scribz, who famously wears a metallic disguise aft constabulary tried to prohibition him from YouTube
Cassiel Wuta-Ofei (left), known by his signifier name, Scribz, and Malki Martin (right), who goes by ASAP, were sentenced to a full of 9 years down bars for operating a drugs web that shipped heroin and ace cocaine to the Home Counties
The pair, portion of rap radical 67, which was nominated for Best Newcomer astatine the 2016 MOBO award, were stopped portion driving a Mercedes A Class successful Basingstoke, Hampshire
British rapper, vocalist and songwriter Stormzy speaks during Black Lives Matter protesters march from Parliament Square to New Scotland Yard successful cardinal London demanding justness for Chris Kaba
Jeremy Corbyn besides attended a protestation successful representation of Mr Kaba
The 67 gang, pronounced six-seven, has terrorised radical surviving successful their Brixton Hill fiefdom for decades with threats of violence, cause dealing and besides a racket wherever they extort currency from 'freshies' - slang for immigrants - successful instrumentality for protecting their flats.
It has besides fought bloody turf wars with rivals from estates sometimes conscionable streets distant from their area, including The 17 pack from Wandsworth and Claptown gang, known arsenic CT, based successful Clapham.
Multiple execution cases successful caller years person been linked to this vicious feud, stoked by a backmost and distant of drill rap songs threatening each different with violence.
However, The 67 was fixed a veil of respectability erstwhile its members were nominated for the champion newcomer prize astatine the MOBOs successful 2016 aft getting millions of views connected YouTube.
Members of the pack are viewed arsenic 'godfathers' of the London drill rap country - notorious successful its links to violence, particularly weapon crime.
Kaba rapped utilizing the aliases Madix, Itch and Mad Itch.
One of the group's highest illustration rappers is Cassie Wuta-Ofei, amended known arsenic LD oregon Scribz, who famously wears a metallic disguise aft constabulary tried to prohibition him from YouTube.
But his vocation was disrupted for respective years aft being jailed for drugs offences.
Chris Kaba's parents Helen Lumuanganu and Prosper Kaba astatine the Old Bailey connected October 15
Chris Kaba was changeable done the windscreen of a car successful South London connected September 5, 2022
Chris Kaba was described by friends arsenic agleam and funny
A photograph issued by the CPS of the bluish Audi Q8, the conveyance Chris Kaba was successful erstwhile helium died. It was linked to a shooting successful Bromley months earlier
Wuta-Ofei and Malki Martin ,who goes by ASAP, were sentenced to a full of 9 years down bars for operating a drugs web that shipped heroin and ace cocaine to the Home Counties.
The pair, some cardinal to the rap radical 67, were stopped portion driving a Mercedes A Class successful Basingstoke, Hampshire successful March 2018.
Inner London Crown Court heard that Wuta-Ofei and Martin had anterior convictions for possession with intent to proviso ace cocaine and heroin from 2013.
Wuta-Ofei would aboriginal importune that helium was amazed erstwhile helium was recovered blameworthy successful a video filmed from the backmost of a Rolls Royce that picked him up aft helium was released from prison.
He besides denied that drill rappers oregon The 67 were connected to unit and organised crime.
He claimed that helium and his friends are 'from the gutter' and were looking astatine ways to marque wealth from music.
He said: 'People request to spot that being an artist, and sometimes saying convulsive things, is conscionable being an artist.
'It’s similar erstwhile you’re successful a movie, acting similar you’re astir to rob a bank; it’s not truly that person.
'You inactive unrecorded a mean life. People deliberation that it’s unit each time long, but they request to retrieve that everyone has a family'.
A machine generated representation issued by the Crown Prosecution Service of a reconstruction shown to the tribunal astatine the Old Bailey of the presumption of 2 firearms officers successful beforehand of the Audi
Chris Kaba is seen sat wrong an Audi Q8 successful Streatham, South London, connected September 5, 2022
The footage shows equipped officers moving towards Mr Kaba's car which was hemmed in
A changeable is heard successful the video earlier idiosyncratic shouts 'right we've got shots fired, shots fired'
Yet Kaba himself had bragged astir knifing rivals successful his ain rap songs.
A twelvemonth earlier the MOBO information successful 2016, Kaba, past astir 15, was portion of a mob who had stabbed and beaten a rival successful a Streatham telephone shop.
The unfortunate was stabbed repeatedly with knives and whipped with a canine concatenation successful a mob onslaught described arsenic a bloodbath by witnesses.
Rapping for The 67 nether the sanction Itch, helium bragged successful a 2018 way astir however helium 'went from buying a tracky astatine JD's to chinging Jordan astatine Carphone' - a wide motion to the attack. Ching is drill slang for stabbing a rival.
It is not yet wide wherefore Chris Kaba ended up pursuing a beingness of crime.
He, his younger brothers and his Congolese parents had moved astir south-east and southbound London.
His household accidental helium was funny, boisterous, loyal and loved football.
One person said helium was highly comic and would 'light up a room' astatine parties.
One relative told The Times: 'He was truthful strong; helium persisted done hard times and encouraged others to bash the same. He knew however to marque radical consciousness special. You’d permission him feeling appreciated. He was a halfway subordinate of the household - helium mattered to us'.
Whether his loved-ones were afloat alert of his transgression past is not known, but friends said that helium was a household antheral who worked successful operation earlier helium died.
His father, a fiscal advisor, had said astatine the time: 'Why my son? He was a bully lad and not progressive successful trouble'.
At the clip of his death, Mr Kaba was astir to go a begetter and determination were signs that helium excessively was receptive to alteration from his past speech with a friend, Elisha Fizul.
Ms Fizul, who spoke to Mr Kaba connected the telephone minutes earlier helium was shot, said helium was 'calm' and agreed with her erstwhile she gave him proposal arsenic an older person.
But it has besides been reported that the parent of the child, calved soon aft helium died, had obtained a home unit extortion bid against him portion she was pregnant.
As good arsenic being a subordinate of The 67, helium was besides progressive successful an 'organised transgression network'.
The Times spoke to respective radical successful Brixton Hill who said Kaba and his friends ran a 'protection racket' - telling women connected the property that if they paid them they would 'make definite nary occupation would travel to their door'.
The insider said that they targeted 'freshies' - slang from immigrants from cardinal Africa.
'They knew who to target. No offence but they went for freshies — they couldn't travel for america [Caribbean people] due to the fact that they cognize we're excessively feisty', the root said.
Local businesses including hairdressers are said to person besides ben shaken down for currency oregon protected successful instrumentality for inexpensive oregon escaped haircuts for pack members.
Cash from drugs were besides important to the gang, whose members person been convicted of region lines offences and carrying weapons, a transgression that Kaba committed connected respective occasions.
After the Carphone Warehouse attack, Kaba fired a sawn-off shotgun extracurricular a enactment successful Canning Town, eastbound London and fixed 4 years in a Young Offenders' Institution for possession of an imitation firearm with intent to origin fearfulness of violence.
After being convicted aged 13 for carrying a room knife, helium was handed a younker referral order.
But months aboriginal helium was convicted of wounding with intent and sent to a Young Offenders' Institution for 2 years.
After his merchandise helium was past convicted of burglary aft helium was portion of a pack who raided a mobile telephone shop.
The 67 pack is said to person taken its sanction from the telephone codification for Brixton Hill successful southbound London from which galore of its members hail.
Its arch rival was the '17 gang' from the neighbouring Wandsworth Road country which took its sanction from the day 17-year-old Jordan Malutshi was fatally stabbed successful a barroom successful the aboriginal hours of July 1 2013.
Coincidentally, it was Jordan's member Brandon, 25, who was changeable successful the legs successful a nightclub by Mr Kaba connected August 30 2022, an earlier proceedings of 67 pack associates was told.
In June 2013, Jerome Small, past 32, from Reading, was recovered blameworthy of Jordan's execution and jailed for beingness pursuing a proceedings astatine Reading Crown Court.
Mr Justice Goss had ruled that nary of the details of Mr Kaba's transportation with gangs should beryllium told to jurors during firearms serviceman Martyn Blake's proceedings astatine the Old Bailey.
Mr Blake, 40, was cleared of Mr Kaba's execution connected Monday and reporting restrictions connected earlier ineligible statement astir the lawsuit person been lifted.
Defence barrister Patrick Gibbs KC had said Mr Kaba was a halfway subordinate of the 67 pack and if helium had not been fatally changeable by Mr Blake during a constabulary halt days later, connected September 5 2022, helium would person been tried successful tribunal for attempted murder.
Tit-for-tat unit is the banal successful commercialized for London's pack country and the 67 pack was the astir convulsive 1 successful the Lambeth area, the Old Bailey heard.
Mr Gibbs had argued that Mr Blake was good alert of the escalating hostility betwixt Mr Kaba's 67 pack and its rivals earlier the constabulary halt prompted by the recognition of an Audi linked to a shooting incidental successful Brixton the nighttime before.
On Mr Blake's concerns astatine the time, helium said: 'This defendant, similar each the different officers successful the team, is acquainted with these gangs, knows what they are, knows however unsafe they are, knows however often they sprout each other.
'It's the astir unsafe pack successful southbound London, that's what the discourse is. As it happens, helium was wholly right.'
A constabulary study stated: '67 is an identifiable thoroughfare pack that are successful an progressive and convulsive quality with a rival faction of thoroughfare gangs successful Lambeth.
'This quality has encompassed galore firearms discharges, stabbings and murders, the communicative for this quality has played retired successful gang-related philharmonic contented since 2014.
'67 pack and those affiliated to the radical are embedded successful a civilization of cause supply, superior violence, firearms and weapon possession.'
The writer of the study concluded: 'It is my steadfast content 67 person been and stay the highest harm thoroughfare pack successful Lambeth and that they proceed to contiguous superior hazard to harm to those individuals and groups they are successful absorption with oregon person had issues with.'
The study dated June 16 2023 was presented astatine a proceeding to determine whether Mr Blake should beryllium tried anonymously nether his cypher NX121 due to the fact that of the menace of pack reprisals implicit Mr Kaba's death.
The writer drew connected experiences since 2008 of monitoring, reviewing and researching humanities and modern events involving thoroughfare gangs and individuals, efforts to suppress gang-related unit successful Lambeth and enactment to divert young radical distant from gangs.
Mr Kaba was besides listed arsenic a erstwhile subordinate of the abstracted 67 drill rap corporate which archetypal roseate to fame astir 2014.
It was among the archetypal of its benignant to bask mainstream popularity and illustration success, with champion known way Lets Lurk.
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