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.
How gang rivalries have led to tragedies for families as former police chief brands youth deaths a ‘public health emergency’
Gang rivalries are thought to be behind a series of murders and killings on London’s streets. MailOnline looks at just some of the clashes which have led to deaths.
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.’
Seven-year-old’s tragic death in fire linked to gang war involving Lewisham’s 814 gang
Seven-year-old Joel Urhie’s body was found after a suspected arson attack led to a fire at his house in Deptford, south-east London, last month.
In the weeks after his tragic death, it was claimed the apparent arson attack could be due to his older brother, Sam’s links to the 814 gang – an offshoot of The Ghetto Boys.
Sam was jailed for four years and four months for possessing cocaine and heroin with intent to supply.
He had been released from prison three months before the fire and his friends have suggested the attack may have been ‘payback’ in the ongoing gang war.
Masked members of 814 can be seen wearing EA7 Emporio Armani sports tops in one of their rap videos about ‘shanking’ (stabbing people).
Family friends have suggested the tragic death of seven-year-old Joel Urhie (left) may be linked to a gang his brother Sam (pictured, right, in a photo taken in prison) is said to have been part of
Tit-for-tat violence between Kennington’s Moscow17 and Peckham’s Zone 2 claims two lives
Sidique Kamara, also known as Moscow17 rapper Incognito, was stabbed to death in Warham Street, Camberwell, on the evening of August 1.
It cames just three months after another member of the Moscow17 collective, 17-year-old Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton, was found fatally shot on the same street in May.
The group’s tracks have had hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube and include lyrics hostile to long-running rivals Zone 2, from Peckham.
Sidique Kamara (left), known as Incognito, was fatally stabbed last month. Moscow17 member Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton (right) was found fatally shot on the same street in May
Earlier this year, Mr Kamara and another member of Moscow17 had been cleared at the Old Bailey of murdering teenager Abdirahman Mohamed, a brother of a member of Zone 2.
Moscow17 has been engaged in a vicious feud with Zone 2 from Peckham, immediately to the east of Camberwell.
The borough of Southwark, in which Camberwell falls, has the second highest level of knife crime in London; 805 incidents were recorded last year.
In June alone, according to the latest (and most localised) Home Office data, 349 crimes, including 92 ‘violent/sexual offences’ were committed within just half a mile of the Elmington Estate. This works out at around three a day.
Youth worker caught in the crossfire of feud between Northumberland Park’s NPK and Wood Green’s WG
Youth worker Tanesha Melbourne, who was shot dead in a suspected case of mistaken identity, is believed to have been caught in the crossfire of a bitter rivalry between The WG (Wood Green) gang and its enemies NPK (Northumberland Park)
The 17-year-old was leaving her boyfriend’s home in Tottenham, north London in April, with a friend who was thought to be the intended target, when she was gunned down in a drive by shooting.
The decade long feud between WG and NPK has seen a never ending string of tit for tat battles on the streets of the north London area.
It came after three men launched an attack on a victim in the Tinseltown diner in Farringdon.
Locals have claimed the drive-by shooting which killed Tanesha may have come in retaliation for the milkshake bar attack.
Youth worker Tanesha Melbourne was shot dead in a suspected case of mistaken identity in Tottenham in April
Clash near playground led to 14-year-old boy’s death
Corey Junior Davis was shot from behind as he sat with friends near a playground in Forest Gate, East London, in September last year.
He is believed to have been caught in the middle when the Woodgrange E7 gang and their rivals The Beckton E6 crew clashed following months of taunts.
The senseless killing, which also saw a 17-year-old boy caught in the cross-fire, was believed to be a revenge attack ordered by Beckton E6 following a hunting knife stabbing at Westfield Shopping Centre in Stratford.
Corey Junior Davis was shot from behind as he sat with friends near a playground in Forest Gate, East London
Woodgrange E7 operate around Woodgrange Road in Forest Gate, just five miles away from Beckton – in the same London borough.
The two warring factions had been abusing each other online, with each posting chilling videos where they spoke of murder and killing one another.
Corey’s mother Keisha McLeod, 38, later told of the horror at losing her ‘funny, caring and handsome’ son.
‘This is the worst feeling a parent could ever feel. My son did not deserve this death, he hadn’t had a life yet, he was still being a child.’