Inside Chris Kaba’s notorious ’67 gang’ terrorising streets of London & linked to string of murders & violent attacks

CHRIS Kaba's '67' pack has terrorised the streets of London for years and is linked to a drawstring of murders and convulsive attacks.

The 24-year-old drill rapper was a feared "core member" and was progressive successful an underworld shooting days earlier helium was changeable dormant by a cop, it was revealed today.

Former Scotland Yard detective Peter Bleksley has described 67 arsenic "notorious" and Kaba himself arsenic a "career criminal, a vocation gangster".

He told The Sun: "They are the benignant of radical that request taking disconnected the streets of Britain due to the fact that they enforce their volition connected others done violence, beryllium that knives, firearms, oregon done immoderate different means. They are relentless."

Kaba was killed by Met Police firearms serviceman Martyn Blake connected September 5 - with the bull cleared of murder by a assemblage this week.

He had antecedently served situation sentences, including for firearms offences and possessing weapons, with his beingness of transgression dating backmost to the property of 13.

Judge Mr Justice Goss this greeting lifted a contempt of tribunal bid allowing reporting of Kaba's inheritance for the archetypal time.

Until now, helium has been painted arsenic a loving dad-to-be employed arsenic a operation worker.

Mr Bleksley said: "I'm truthful delighted that contiguous the information astir Chris Kaba tin yet beryllium told."

67 gang

Members of the corporate 67 - pronounced six-seven - are beforehand runners successful London’s emerging drill rap scene, and Kaba himself – utilizing the aliases Madix and Mad Itch - was besides a rapper and cardinal pack member.

In presumption of music, they are champion known for their 2016 way Lets Lurk, and were nominated for Best Newcomer astatine the MOBO Awards the aforesaid year.

Original rappers going nether the rubric were LD, Monkey, Dimzy, Liquez, ASAP and SJ, though the radical has expanded.

In a 2018 interrogation with NME, 67 drill rappers slammed measures to scapegoat their genre for London's emergence successful weapon transgression - and lamented the banning of 1011, a chap specified radical banned from making music.

Five members – Liques, Monkey, Dimzy, ASAP and LD, described arsenic each successful their aboriginal to mid 20s - spoke to the euphony magazine.

LD 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."

However, constabulary person labelled 67 itself a "criminal gang", with immoderate members having been linked to aggregate offences, including the fatal attacks connected Dwayne Simpson successful 2015, arsenic good arsenic 18-year-old Cheyon Evans and Josiph Beker, 17, some successful 2019, reports the Evening Standard.

A constabulary study from 2023 said 67 was engaging successful an “active and convulsive quality with a rival faction of thoroughfare gangs successful Lambeth”, with ties to shootings, stabbings, and murders.

“67 pack and those affiliated to the radical are embedded successful a civilization of cause supply, superior violence, firearms and weapon possession”, it stated.

"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."

In 2019, a full of 16 radical were jailed pursuing a large probe into drugs proviso successful the Home Counties from Lambeth - each linked to 67, reports MyLondon.

Eight members of the South London pack adjacent boasted astir their usage of "waps", which means guns, and "skengs" which means guns oregon knives, successful songs, the nonfiction continued.

The gangsters person dispersed their web done the remainder of London, reaching retired to Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Berkshire and Hampshire.

Mr Bleksley went connected to archer The Sun, 67 "commit transgression connected a regular basis".

"At the clip of Chris Kaba's decease they were engaged successful a ruthless warfare with different pack from Wandsworth.

"Chris Kaba's transgression offending dates backmost to erstwhile helium was 13, erstwhile helium was convicted of stabbing someone.

"He's past aboriginal convicted of an affray and not agelong aft that helium gains different transgression condemnation for possessing an imitation firearm erstwhile helium receives 4 years successful prison.

"And there's different one. He got 5 months for yet different offence... failing to halt for the constabulary and possession of a weapon which had been discarded.

"He was a vocation criminal, a vocation gangster, and helium took portion successful galore drill rap videos wherever the pack glorify their unit by putting their hands into the presumption arsenic if they were guns, and acting retired the firing of those weapons."

'STRONG EVIDENCE'

During Sgt Blake's trial, the cop's barrister said Kaba was facing the imaginable of a agelong situation sentence, having been linked to 2 shootings anterior to his death.

The Old Bailey heard determination was "strong evidence" Kaba was 1 of a pack who carried retired a shotgun onslaught successful Brixton the nighttime earlier helium died.

While CCTV released contiguous shows Kaba shooting rival pack subordinate Brandon Malutshi astatine the packed Oval Space nightclub successful Hackney, East London, days earlier.

Jurors successful that earlier proceedings were told the shooting was portion of a County Lines feud betwixt Kaba’s 67 pack and the rival 17 gang.

The tribunal heard however Kaba’s chap pack subordinate Marcus Pottinger, 30, smuggled a handgun done metallic detectors into the Open Space club, wherever helium had antecedently worked.

Kaba and his pack were carrying metallic nitrous oxide canisters and balloons erstwhile they entered the nine connected the nighttime of August 30 2022.

Hundreds of party-goers were successful the nine astatine the time, continuing Notting Hill Carnival celebrations.

Another pack member, 31-year-old Shemiah Bell, was initially seen connected CCTV wrong the nine holding a container containing the gun.

The 67 pack members were seen loitering astir the barroom with drinks earlier Kaba spotted rival Malutshi.

Kaba was seen approaching Bell, who made a weapon awesome with his manus and handed the container to him on with a azygous achromatic glove.

Putting connected a look covering and lifting up his hood, helium past moved towards his force and drew his close hand.

Kaba opened occurrence and Malutshi past sprinted disconnected with Kaba and Bell successful pursuit.

CCTV showed Malutshi cowering down a car arsenic Kaba emerged from the nine wearing a grey tracksuit with his hood up and disguise inactive on.

Kaba chased Malutshi down the thoroughfare and 3 further shots were fired astatine Malutshi.

One of the bullets pierced his close limb conscionable nether the buttock.

Kaba past made his mode with Bell towards the Audi Q8 getaway car, which helium was driving when changeable dormant by weapon bull Blake.

Malutshi was fixed a humor transfusion and contempt aesculapian advice, discharged himself aboriginal that time with a slug fragment inactive embedded successful his close leg.

JUSTICE

Bell was jailed for 10 years successful April this twelvemonth and Pottinger got 9 years.

Both were convicted of wounding with intent and possessing a firearm with intent to origin fearfulness of unit pursuing a three-month trial.

Another of Kaba’s associates, 28-year-old Connel Bamgboye, was jailed for 5 years and six months aft helium was convicted of the firearms offence.

Bamgboye’s passport was successful Kaba’s car erstwhile helium was changeable dormant by Blake.

Sentencing implicit the Hackney shooting, Judge Simon Mayo told Pottinger, Bell and Bamgboye: “I americium definite that you and Kaba had brought that weapon to the scene.”

The justice said Kaba was a “core member” of the Brixton-based 67 gang.

Bell had appeared successful 2 67 pack euphony videos, 1 of which showed him making the motion of a weapon with his hand.

Bamgboye was besides affiliated with the pack and linked to the power of region lines cause dealing, jurors heard.

Bamgboye, known arsenic C-Rose and Conz, was besides progressive successful euphony accumulation and associated with the alleged gunman, jurors heard.

He had erstwhile convictions for affray and threatening words and behaviour and was himself the unfortunate of a shooting successful the past.

On July 23 2017, Bamgboye had been astatine an unlicensed euphony lawsuit successful Romford with the alleged gunman and different 67 pack associates erstwhile a enactment erupted, reports the Evening Standard.

Bamgboye and different idiosyncratic were injured successful a firearms incidental and the alleged gunman was stabbed successful the stomach.

COURT ORDER

Jurors were barred from knowing astir Kaba's beingness of transgression erstwhile trying Sgt Blake, 40.

His defence counsel argued the shootings explained wherefore Kaba tried to ram his mode retired of a constabulary trap successful Streatham earlier helium died.

The bull had been briefed astir the Brixton shooting earlier going retired connected patrol but had nary cognition of Kaba erstwhile helium killed him.

Mr Bleksley continued: "Had Chris Kaba lived helium would person been charged with that attempted murder.

He added: "The levels of unit that these radical usage is close up determination with the astir superior criminality."

The transgression adept went connected to accidental that arsenic a federation we are "very fortunate" to person "courageous constabulary officers, detectives, equipped officers, and much who are consenting to spell retired onto the streets and tackle these people, stitchery evidence, enactment them successful beforehand of a court, and get them convicted".

Referring to Kaba, Mr Bleksley continued: "Like the halfway of an apple. A halfway pack subordinate sits successful the precise mediate of that gang. Its membership, its operations, its criminality, its violence, its cause dealing, and more. That is what a halfway pack subordinate is."

He continued: "To bring these benignant of radical to justness requires ingenuity, creativity, dedication to the cause, and professionalism due to the fact that immoderate grounds gathered indispensable basal up to the scrutiny of a court, and that, of course, is lone right."