The leafy London suburb on the frontline of a drill rap gang war: How Sydenham is being plagued by a spiralling outbreak of violence as the community is rocked by yet another shooting in 'murder mile'

EXCLUSIVE The leafy London suburb on the frontline of a drill rap gang war: How Sydenham is being plagued by a spiralling outbreak of violence as the community is rocked by yet another shooting in 'murder mile' By MARTIN ROBINSON, CHIEF REPORTER and VIVEK CHAUDHARY Published: 00:57, 15 November 2024 | Updated: 00:58, 15 November 2024 e-mail View comments Just two-and-a-half miles from where Chris Kaba was cornered, South London is once again dealing with the fallout of another shooting in an area where gang warfare has spiralled 'out of control', MailOnline can reveal today. Police are still hunting for the gunman who shot dead expectant father Curtis Green, 30, in Wells Park Road, Sydenham in broad daylight on Sunday morning. A woman, also 30, was blasted in the legs and another man was sprayed with bullets but survived the attack on a party that neighbours said had gone on all night.

Locals say that Sunday morning's shooting was the latest in a series of violence incidents in the leafy, south London suburb, with many blaming gangs and rivalries often stoked by drill rap. MailOnline can reveal that the latest shooting in Sadiq Khan 's London came in an area dubbed 'murder mile' because it has had at least five gang-related murders and attempted murders with guns and knives in the past decade. Three of those incidents alone were in Wells Park Road, including a tragic incident where a teenager was stabbed through the heart.



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