Detailed maps lay bare how more than 200 gangs are locked in bitter fights for control of London’s streets.
More than 100 people have been killed in the capital already this year, with fears gang rivalries and feuds are leading to spiralling numbers of shootings and stabbings.
Maps circulated online have now attempted to plot the extent of each gang’s fiefdom and flash-point roads where two territories rub up against each other.
The maps show there are around 50 gangs in south London, the most notorious of which are Moscow17 in Kennington, the Ghetto Boys in Deptford and the Woolwich Boys on the banks of the Thames.
This map shows the patchwork of gangs who control different streets in London as violence continues to spiral in the capital
South: 1. Black Gang (PB) / Lettsom & Crane, 2.Wooly Hood, 3.Bermondsey Boys, 4.Ghetto Boys, 5. Ferrier Boys, 6. Woolwich Boys, 7. Block Gang, 8. KTS 9. CR0, 10. SMN, 11. M-Town, 12. Gipset, 13. SMS, 14. TBG, 15. Stick’em Up Kidz, 16. 031, 17.P1O, 18. Tulse Hill (T-Block / THT), 19. KBM, 20. Moscow17
East: 1. Piff City (Ching Blocks), 2. Priory Court Grey Gang, 3.Drive & Marlowe (DM), 4. Base / Boundary, 5. M-Block, 6. Loyal Soldiers, 7. E7 Crips, 8. Manor Park Squad, 9. Beckton Black Squad, 10. Plaistow Mandem, 11. Grey Town, 12.Stratford Mandem, 13. Maryland Bloods, 14. E5TH Rydaz (Square Blockz), 15. Springfield – Southwold, 16. 925 / 9TO5, 17. London Field Boys, 18. Bethnal Green Massive. 19. Stepney Posse, 20. IOD, 22. Lansbury Massive, 23. E3 Bloods, 24. Globe Town Massive, 25. Brady Street Massive, 26. Brick Lane Massive, 27. Cannon Street Posse, 28. Shadwell Massive, 29. Jubilee Street Massive, 30. Locksley State Massive
North 1. Get Money Gang, 2. Black Gang IV, 3. Dem Africans, 4. Shankstarz, 5. Grey Gang, 6. NPK / BC, 7. Risley Avenue & Tower Gardens, 8. Wood Green Mob, 9. Grey Bandana Gang, 10. Busy Blocks, 11. FPK / Finsbury Park, 12. Highbury Blockz, 13. Market Road Gang, 14. Bemerton Mandem, 15. Essex Road Gang / Marquess, 16. Hoxton, 17. Soldiers of Shakespeare / Red Pitch, 18. FPK / Finsbury Park, 19. Tiverton Piru, 20. Ida Bloodstarz / Edgecot, 21. Stonebridge, 22. Craven Park, 23. Ferry Lane, 24. Saltram & High Cross, 25. Chestnut Estate Black Gang, 26. Risley Avenue & Tower Gardens, 27. North London Somalians, 28. Graveyard / FTG, 29. Breknock, 30. 135 Piru / MTS
1. D-Block, 2. 300 Blox Plus / Thug Fam, 3. Wembley Tamils, 4. Monks Park Crips, 5. Crack Hill Mob, 6. St Raphs Soldiers, 7. Skrilla Kids, 8. Church Road Soldiers, 9. KG Blood Gang, 10. South Kilburn Mandem, 11. Lisson Green Mandem / Edgware Road Boys, 12. Camden Marliez, 13. Q.C Blox, 14. Sin City Fam, 15. Kilburn Bandits, 16. Clitterhouse, 17. STA 9, 18. Kilburn Bandits, 19. Cumbo Blox, 20. Somers Town
Meanwhile, the north London map sets out the territories of 50 gangs, 60 gangs are plotted on an east London map, and 35 others are said to control different parts of the capital’s north west.
If the maps are accurate, some gangs, such as Croydon’s ‘CRO’ control large swathes of some boroughs, while others, such as the ‘Kilburn Bandits’ in the north-west, have small enclaves of just a couple of roads.
The maps show just how specific many territories are, with gangs’ zones of influence often locked into each other around small residential streets.
The Elmington Estate in Camberwell, which has been plagued with violence this year, is shown as an ‘unoccupied’ zones surrounded by the territories of six different gangs; 198 Block, Zone 2, the AY gang, Moscow17, 410 and Cassava.
Many of the gangs are named after postcodes or bus routes and some have corresponding drill groups, who post music videos online, sometimes threatening other groups.
Figures released yesterday showed that more than a third of all homicide victims across the capital so far this year were aged under 24.
This was the scene on the Elmington Estate in Camberwell last month where the Moscow17 gang has been engaged in a vicious feud with Peckham’s ‘Zone 2’ gang
The online maps show why the estate is such a flash-point, surrounded as it is by six different gangs’ territories. The grey patch to the north west of the estate is the territory of the Moscow17 gang. The grey square to the north is the AY gang. The black block to the right is the Zone 2 gang. The brown patch to the south is the 198 Block’s territory and the green and red areas to the south west are the 410 and Cassava gangs
Ninety per cent of those victims were male and all but one died from gun or knife wounds. Four were aged under 16, analysis from the Press Association showed.
The figures for London contrast with those for the rest of the country, with the demographics of murder victims correspond more closely with the general population.
Responding to the stats, Tottenham MP David Lammy said: ‘Youth violence is reaching epidemic proportions in the UK and we have a significant problem in London.’
‘It is a failure of society at large that many young people feel scared in their communities that they would rather pick up a knife or join a gang to defend themselves,’ he added.
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Retired Met Police officer John Sutherland yesterday called on politicians to come up with a ’20-year plan’ to break cycles of violence passed down between generations.
He said: ‘There’s no way we’re going to fix that by next Friday. There’s no way we’re going to fix that just by doing more stop and search, or by imposing tougher sentencing for carrying knives, because you’re dealing with something that’s much more fundamental. I would go so far as to say it is a public health emergency.’