The Mali Boys: How London’s Most Feared Gang Run Drugs, Guns And Violence Across The Capital

In recent years, London has been plagued by a surge in gang violence and knife crime, leaving communities devastated and young lives tragically cut short. The rise of notorious gangs like the Mali Boys has brought attention to the issue, shedding light on the complex factors that contribute to this alarming trend. With over 1,500 knife crime incidents reported this year alone, it is clear that urgent action is needed to address the root causes and find solutions to tackle this epidemic.

The Rise of Gangs and Zombie Knives:
The Mali Boys, a gang operating in East London, has gained notoriety for its involvement in violent crimes such as murder and arson. They have been accused of exploiting young children and controlling the drug trade in the area. One weapon commonly associated with these gangs is the zombie knife, a deadly weapon that can be easily purchased online. The lack of regulation surrounding the sale of these weapons has raised concerns and led to calls for stricter measures.

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Now top story today a 15-year-old girl has been stabbed to death in the rush hour in South London two teenagers have been sentenced to life in prison that leads Crown Court for the murder of a 15-year-old boy a 21-year-old man who was stabbed to death at the nauy hill

Carnival has been named today by his manager as rapper to kyote nard they are weapons that kill that can’t be bought in shop so why is it so easy to buy zombie knives online they’re finding knives just like this but because there is no writing on the

Knives the police can do nothing as the politicians keep talking teenagers and others keep dying that is the reality what would your day look like when you come out to go to the shop young people can’t even go to the shop I’ve got some young people they’ve got to get to a cab

To just go to the corner shop they cannot walk anywhere they cannot get in a tube they cannot get on a bus they cannot go in a park they cannot be nowhere by themselves because they will get killed on site by another child these are zombie knives there’s

The chances of survival is very very slim these are people that are not emotionally disciplined to be killing people for what reason G crime is plaguing London and it’s on the rise with an increase of over 1500 knife crime incidents this year compared to the last and the Marley boys sometimes

Labeled as London’s most violent and organized gangs are often at the Forefront of headlines the gang which operates in East London has been accused of grooming and exploiting young children controlling drug trade in the area and using violent weapons such as zombie knives and some of their actions

Make the hit series stop boy look tame shut up you don’t want this SM told you that but who are they really and why are they gaining notoriety at such a fast pace 16 of the 80 homicides in the capital so far this year have been teenagers last

Year 99 young people under 25 were murdered with a knife or sharp object in the 12 months to March 2022 13 of those were aged under 16 one of the most prominent and reportedly business driven gangs in London is the Marley boys based in wmst and Leighton according to Trident their respons for

Seven murders in 3 years or less that we know Of news outlets tend to paint them as a small group of young people who have fled War tone Somalia and settled in the UK but through investigating further we have found that the group is ethnically diverse there are over 200 people of a wide range of Ages associated with the Group that I’ll be my family this is Valentin Road in London’s walst it’s been called the UK’s most dangerous Street and some say it’s run by the mly boys the notorious gang have been associated with crimes from murder to arson and sex attacks the latest alleged ring leader who is Hamza alhu is

Currently serving life behind bars for double murder earlier this year received a second jail term for at least 36 years for a fatal stabbing both killings were in revenge over fatal attack on a fellow Marley boy gang member Elijah delli but the group itself are still at large and

Have become a prominent feature in the UK drum music operating under the name the Molly St but while the music seems to glorify a violent lifestyle and trivialize fatal crime a lot of members say that characterization is unfair and many of them want to get out but can’t and don’t

Know how 34s of the bers in London with the highest levels of violence offending are also in the top 10 most deprived those same areas also have higher proportions of children under 20 living in poverty than the London average Ricardo and Jesse are in a volunteer run

Media project in a walam forest gang territory the project was started by a man who knows everything about gangs he’s written a book about them in fact it’s his own story he was a notorious gangster Divine is an entrepreneur and who runs the knife crime charity kiss

For life he grew up in walam STO and became a key player in the gang violence there he even went to school with some of the Marley boys he spoke to us about why so many people who are young are becoming involved in Conflict I was about 13 when I originally got involved

In um a downward spiral or a dark the the gang life if You’ put in that way what sort of led me down that road on many different factors a lack of self discipline um in terms of my own personal accountability for that but um in terms

Of a bigger picture um it was the influences around me um that sort of led me down that road I was um born in UK moved to Ghana when I was two I came back when I was seven and when I came the environment was completely um a

Different environment to me in terms of um you know trying to create a self self-belief um we was in an environment where a lot of young people um you could just be bullied or you can be picked on just by um being a certain like not being in an incrowd or

Something like that and then when you realize that you’re faed and people um sort of do as you say you realize you can then capitalize of that and go into things that can make you money and doing that you realize you’re now spiring into a very um

Aggressive um violent road so I wanted cars I wanted jewelry I wanted all these things cuz I believed it’s going to make me feel valued and when I realized after going through that journey and having all these things I still did not feel like I was a valuable person to society

Because I would go into certain environments some of my friends I would go to school colleges universities and I think that the minute I realize my self value everything around me just like it just be it’s just like being in a toxic relationship and you wake up one day and

Said enough is enough this is not for me imagine 13-year-old kid you live in an area like Tottenham yeah and you you go to a school that’s quite close to wood green and wood green has a lot of conflicts with Tottenham so just the fact that you’re going to school and

You’re from that area automatically you could just be seen as an enemy just by default being able to protect yourself and saying I’m going to get a knife as much as it sounds very crazy cannot be the the most baddest idea now people carrying knives it now

Puts you in a position where you can e easily become the perpetrator I’ve seen in a lot of the work I do in colleges and un all across England with my organization kiss for Life we’ve realized there’s a lot of people that ended up in issues that they became the

Ones uh uh uh stabbing or killing someone but essentially they saw themself as um a victim and having to carry a knife was a way to protect themsel just carrying a knife to protect yourself because of their environment you’re in even though you didn’t want to

You f it was the right choice to do now you’re in a position where you’ve ended up stabbing up someone because you’re angry you know what I mean and it happens literally every single day it’s a recipe for disaster and then back to the selling drugs for example at the

Mary boys and everything else if you’re in an environment where you know financially everyone around you struggling and you have no money and people are able to give you um a a a job or a platform where you could be earning £500 at the age of 13 to 16 again it

Doesn’t seem like the most craziest idea a lot of these young people people are are going through traumatic situations they are just literally mentally Disturbed and challenged just from the upbringing coming up it’s far uh uh easier for a lot of young people to end up in an environment they didn’t even

Want to be in now the average young person carries a knife that goes from their their knee to their waist like this big these are zombie knives there’s the chances of survival is very very slim these are huge they’re killing killing tools that that you can’t have a

Rambo knife for any other reason than to kill someone Colin James started gangs Unite cic with the hopes of reducing gang violence in the area his initiative Street fathers looks to provide people on the streets with a father figure and a place to stay if they’re in need

Offering options to people who perhaps feel trapped I find a lot of young people when they come out of prison there is nothing for them and these young people don’t really want to learn a trade now so they tend to drift in and out I said

We we we never call them gangs yeah we called them Mand them we call them firms we call them Crews where I grew up I grew up in an estate there’s probably 120 children in there so we was never labeled us as a gang we named ourselves

Crews or firms it’s the government that gave the children the label gangs all we had was our name and our reputation and I would have done anything to keep that yeah I I think convention is the most important aspect of working with young people especially in youth crime the government dos with

Intervention and they fun intervention but intervention is too late something’s already happened someone’s already being stabbed someone’s already being hurt someone’s already become a victim see in inherently inherently is a strong word I don’t think anyone is naturally violent there is probably a few probably 5% of the the world population is probably

That way I think experience es and it’s all circumstantial see see most people the reason why I believe most people go on the road is economical they believe it’s for money and everybody goes out there and thinks it’s an easy way of making money but as we was talking about

Earlier on is societal everybody wants to find their place in life especially young people we all do we all want to find out who our friends are what peer groups do we belong to some strive for higher peer groups and to get into to those higher prayer groups now you’ve

Got to do certain things and you’ve got to be a certain way and you’ve got to be either that man or that specific female to get in those specific circles now you know people think that young people are being groomed and they always use this word groom groom

Groom it’s just naive and vulnerable young people that want to do these things because they want to fit in they want to impress they want to be a part do you feel like wolam story has become unsafe as some people say I’m mov so is is just like any other

Area every area is safe until young people out there it’s unsafe and it’s only dangerous for young people but when a 14year old boy like Jaden gets killed it’s nothing he got killed in a mistaken identity um he got on a motorbike which belonged to somebody else and someone

Else must have done something on the motorbike unbe known to him and some people was looking for someone on that motorbike they saw him he’s got crash helmet on they drove up to him knocked him off the motorbike and stabbed him nine times if I had my if it was down to

Me once you get caught with a gun and knife I’d put you in the Army since you want to be a murderer And since you want to use weapons I think that they they need to be more harsher with the kind of penalties that they’re giving for

Carrying those type of knives I call them weapons of mass destruction because that’s what they cause that’s I said once you go in a gang or you go on the road or you choose to do certain things you take your whole family with you anyway and the way that it deals with

Now if I can’t get you I’m going to I’m going to get your sister I’m going to get your brother I’m going to get your mom and this is how they’re thinking so once you decide to go on the road and get ups and enemies you’re taking your whole family with you and

They just don’t understand that Professor Andrew whiter of London South Bank University who wrote a report focusing on gang conflict in the area said since 2010 more than 4,500 Youth Work jobs have been cut and 760 youth centers have closed so does our government need to do more for young

People and could we ever see our streets without gang violence