![]() ![]() (And according to a 2021 report from the Prison Reform Trust, more than a quarter - 27 per cent - of the prison population in England and Wales are from a minority ethnic group, in spite of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people making up just 14 per cent of the general UK population.) There is research that posits joint enterprise rulings disproportionately affect people of colour: most specifically, young Black and mixed-race men. Typically, such cases are tried under joint enterprise laws: conviction and sentencing by association if it’s judged that the person had foreseen the associate might commit it. Sentencing, Mr Justice Goose said: “It was played out in social media and through drill rap music, with threats of violence, the display of weapons, including firearms, machetes and crossbows.” Drill pioneer Digga D must tell police if he plans to release new music (Picture: Press) (It should be remembered that even Ed Sheeran has released a UK drill song.) The quoting of drill lyrics in their chat, showing their shared love of UK drill - one of the most popular genres in the country - was also seen to be incriminating. The defendants told the court that M40 is not a gang, but a drill music collective in which some, but not all, of them rapped. The boys were defined - and therefore condemned - by the prosecution as being part of the M40 ‘gang’, although they denied this. In the weeks before the day of sentencing, a protest march took place in Manchester against how the case has been handled by the court.ĭespite not having any weapons, taking part in any violence or efforts to locate attack targets, four of the six other defendants were seemingly condemned solely for comments they made in a group chat with the other defendants three days after Soyoye’s death. Brixton Academy to host test events ahead of reopeningĪnother six of Soyoye’s friends were also sentenced for eight years after being found guilty of conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm.Riff ‘N’ Roll: a look back at 150 years of Epiphone.Three of them were present during different, separate incidents of harm - a non-violent chase, and two separate incidents where a machete was used, one of which resulted in somebody being hit by a car (the exact people who perpetrated this violence was never established). ![]() On 1 July 2022, four of his friends, Harry Oni, Jeffrey Ojo, Gideon Kalumda and Brooklyn Jitobah were sentenced to 21 years’ imprisonment (20 for Jitobah), after they were found guilty of conspiracy to murder for planning revenge attacks for Soyoye’s death. On Bonfire Night 2020, 16-year-old aspiring rapper John Soyoye was murdered in the street by a group of young men.
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