A man has been convicted of murdering a drill music performer who drove a stolen car onto the territory of a rival gang in south London, crashed it, and then attacked a rival rapper with an “enormous knife.”
On Wednesday, a jury found Darius Kwakye, 29, guilty of the murder of Salem Koudou, 20, who was better known on the streets of south London by his drill name, 16Shotz.
The trial at the Old Bailey was set amid the background of a bitter war between gangs who use drill music to goad and threaten rivals and brag about acts of violence.
Two other men—Donte McCalla, and Tristan Bullock, both 21—were acquitted of murder….
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