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Sunday World
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sunday World
Drug dealers who sprayed Dom Perignon from a Rolls-Royce have been jailed for 130 years
The notorious gang have finally been apprehended 12 gangsters who sprayed Dom Perignon from white Rolls-Royce in rap video are jailed for total of 130 years A total of twelve drug dealers who sprayed Dom Perignon from a white Rolls-Royce in a drill rap video to boast about their weapons and wealth have been jailed for 130 years. The Nottingham-based gang used the lyrics and images in their music videos to recruit children into their 'industrial' heroin and crack cocaine ring, a court heard this week. The video in the hired Rolls-Royce shows 20 balaclava-clad young men posing at locations around the St Ann's area of the city. Godpraise Bouwen, 22, who has previous convictions for robbery and knife offences, can be seen rapping about 'junkies asking for testers' and defending his turf. Nottingham Crown Court heard that the gangsters flooded towns across the East Midlands and Aberdeen with Class A drugs. They used children to move and sell their stash to reduce their risk of getting caught - and protected their turf with knives and a loaded pistol. The group were sentenced to a total of 130 years for their role in the drugs gang.
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- General
- Daily Mail
Gangsters who sprayed Dom Perignon from white Rolls-Royce in drill rap video to lure youngsters into their heroin and crack cocaine ring are jailed for total of 130 years
Twelve drug dealers who sprayed Dom Perignon from a white Rolls-Royce in a drill rap video to boast about their weapons and wealth have been jailed for 130 years. The Nottingham-based gang used the lyrics and images in their music videos to recruit children into their 'industrial' heroin and crack cocaine ring, a court heard. The video in the hired Rolls-Royce shows 20 balaclava-clad young men posing at locations around the St Ann's area of the city. Godpraise Bouwen, 22, who has previous convictions for robbery and knife offences, can seen rapping about 'junkies asking for testers' and defending his turf. Nottingham Crown Court heard that the gangsters flooded towns across the East Midlands and Aberdeen with Class A drugs. They used children to move and sell their stash to reduce their risk of getting caught - and protected their turf with knives and a loaded pistol. The group also targeted drug addicts with 'marketing texts' and even set up distribution hubs at users' homes. Speaking about the rap videos, PC Ryan Millington from Nottinghamshire Police, said they were intended to recruit young drug dealers. He said according to the BBC: 'Stacks of cash. Rolex watches. It makes it very easy for young people to become indoctrinated in that lifestyle.' PC Millington said the gang recruited one 15-year-old who went to sell the gang's drugs in a nearby town. He explained: 'He would stay at a drug user's house to deal from. 'That boy would be armed with a knife. They would do this because the young people have no criminal connection back to them.' The gang's leaders were Jephte Fikula and Sipho Ncube - who was seen spraying the Dom Perignon in front of white Rolls-Royce. At Ncube's home, police found a Rolex watch worth more than £10,000 and notes where he claimed he could make up to £20,000 a week through illegal drug dealing. He sparked the initial investigation after he was caught by police running away from a car crash in September 2022. In total, Nottingham police's probe focused on 13 separate county lines that supplied drugs to Long Eaton, Ilkeston, Ripley, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Hucknall, Grantham and Spalding. Prosecutor Jonathan Cox said it was an 'industrial scale' operation that also sought to target Leicester. They found 33,000 'bulk marketing' messages and more than 1,400 customer numbers. The group were sentenced to a total of 130 years for their role in the drugs gang, including Fikula, 29, who received 21 years. Ncube, 29, was sentenced to 15 years for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs. Bouwen, 22, and Ramone Campbell, 28, also received sentences of 15 years and 16 years respectively. Eight other members also were handed lengthy custodial jail terms for their role in the gang.
BBC News
7 days ago
- Health
- BBC News
Rolls-Royce rap video lured children in Nottingham into drugs network
Twelve drug dealers have been jailed for running an "industrial" supply network that flooded heroin and crack cocaine into towns across the East Midlands and Nottingham-based ringleaders sprayed champagne from a white Rolls-Royce, in one of several "drill" music videos that boasted about their weapons and Crown Court heard how they protected their turf with knives, a loaded pistol, and bombarded drug users with marketing also set up local distribution hubs at addicts' homes and recruited children to move and sell their drugs, to reduce the risk of getting caught. The video in a hired Rolls-Royce shows more than 20 young men posing at familiar locations around St Ann's in Nottingham, their faces covered with black features 22-year-old Godpraise Bouwen rapping about "junkies asking for testers", and defending his turf with weapons. Bouwen had previous convictions for robbery and knife offences. PC Ryan Millington, who led the investigation for Nottinghamshire Police, says the lyrics and images were designed to recruit young drug dealers."Stacks of cash. Rolex watches. It makes it very easy for young people to become indoctrinated in that lifestyle," he said. PC Millington says other lyrics, found in their phone notes, were evidence that helped prove their involvement."I'd be able to see the lyrics were written within hours after a police stop, where they were talking about that exact thing, and making reference to hiding drugs from us," he treated teenagers, who were sent to sell their drugs in surrounding towns, as victims of exploitation. PC Millington says they included a 15 year old who was driven to Mansfield."He would stay at a drug user's house to deal from," he said. "That boy would be armed with a knife. They would do this because the young people have no criminal connection back to them." Their network was headed by Jephte Fikula, who had the loaded pistol, and Sipho Ncube, the man spraying Dom Perignon champagne from a Rolls-Royce in their music investigation began after officers caught Ncube running away from a car crash in September found vital evidence on a mobile phone that he tried to throw away - it was the group's Coalville drugs Ncube's home, they seized a Rolex watch worth between £11,750 and £14,550, alongside hand-written notes about how dealing drugs could earn him up to £20,000 a week. What are county lines? County lines are a lucrative drug-dealing model that criminal networks use to expand their customer base across different areas within the UK. The National Police Chiefs Council says gangs often coerce or intimidate children and vulnerable adults into moving and storing their drugs and NSPCC adds county lines gangs aim to evade the police by using sophisticated "grooming" techniques that are "a form of child abuse".The National Crime Agency says the county line is the mobile phone line used to take orders, and it causes "increased levels of violence and weapons-related crimes". The investigation in Nottingham focussed on 13 separate county lines that also supplied heroin and crack to Long Eaton, Ilkeston, Ripley, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Hucknall, Grantham and Spalding. Officers identified over 33,000 "bulk marketing" messages that advertised drugs to more than 1,400 customer numbers, and over 113,000 incoming calls in Cox, prosecuting, described it as an "industrial scale" operation that tried to dominate the class-A drugs market and also sought to target Cox said the group tempted vulnerable people who were "gripped by addiction" and they were "shameless in their dealing". PC Millington said two drug users in Coalville and Mansfield allowed the group to use their homes to store and deal drugs. He said Kevin Wilde and Jeanette Talbot were given free heroin and cocaine as payment, and the impact on those communities was huge."People living in the area will see the effects, people who are homeless or in a poor state of health because of drug use, teenagers who will be sent to these places often armed with a weapon," he residents in Coalville told the BBC that hard drugs were widespread in the town and blamed that trade for shoplifting. His Hon Judge Mark Watson said Talbot was a "hapless addict" whose home was cuckooed and who was the victim of her deferred her sentencing for six months to allow her to demonstrate further progress in tackling her drug failed to appear for his sentencing, and the court heard that attempts have been made to arrest other twelve defendants have received sentences of between six and 21 judge said they were involved in "street dealing of vast proportions", selling highly addictive and dangerous drugs that ruined lives. Jephte Fikula, 29, of no fixed abode (formerly Nottingham). Sentenced to 21 years for conspiracy to supply class A drugs, possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life, possess of ammunition without a certificate, possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of Campbell, 28, of Rose Close, Nottingham. Sentenced to 16 years for conspiracy to supply class A drugs, possession of a prohibited firearm and ammunition, breach of a restraining Ncube, 29, of Harvington Road, Birmingham (formerly Ebury Road, Nottingham). Sentenced to 15 years for conspiracy to supply class A Bouwen, 22, of Astor Road, Nottingham. Sentenced to 15 years for conspiracy to supply class A drugs. Kamel Mantock, 28, of Wasnidge Walk, Nottingham. Sentenced to six years and four months for conspiracy to supply class A Grant, 26, of Blue Bell Hill Road, Nottingham. Sentenced to nine years and six months for conspiracy to supply class A Comrie-Patterson, 28, of Blue Bell Hill Road, Nottingham. Sentenced to nine years and 11 months for conspiracy to supply class A Kanyi, 25, of Botany Avenue, Nottingham. Sentenced to seven years and 9 months for conspiracy to supply class A Reid, 25, of Riber Crescent, Nottingham. Sentenced to six years and nine months for conspiracy to supply class A Farah, 21, of Peveril Street, Nottingham. Sentenced to six years and 11 months for conspiracy to supply class A Fogo, 20, of no fixed abode (formerly Nottingham). Sentenced to eight years youth detention for conspiracy to supply class A drugs and possession of a bladed Landau, 24, of Collmead Court, Northampton (formerly Alfreton Road, Nottingham). Sentenced to eight years and three months for conspiracy to supply class A drugs.
