Drill Song Lyrics Contained Crucial Clue to Gang Member’s Murder, Jury Told

Song contained incriminating details in the lyrics that ‘not even the police knew’ about, according to a prosecutor.
Drill Song Lyrics Contained Crucial Clue to Gang Member’s Murder, Jury Told
An undated image of Kacey Boothe, who was shot dead in Walthamstow, northeast London, on Aug. 13, 2022. Metropolitan Police
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LONDON—A drill artist associated with a London gang produced a song a few weeks after a murder that contained incriminating evidence about a gun used in the killing which even the police did not know at the time, a trial has heard.

Six men went on trial on Friday for the murder of Kacey Boothe, 25, a member of the London Fields gang who was shot dead outside a community centre in east London where a child’s first birthday party was being held on Aug. 13, 2022.
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