ROSS KEMP ON GANGS: LONDON 3 OF 3

ROSS KEMP ON GANGS: LONDON PART 3 OF 3

SEASON 1: EPISODE 1

The Peckham Boys are a gang based in Peckham, South London. The gang was formed in the North Peckham Estate and is primarily of Afro-Caribbean origin. The gang is split into 'tinies', 'youngers' and 'olders', according to age group, and membership runs into the hundreds.

The teenagers convicted of the high-profile murder of Damilola Taylor in 2000 were members of the Younger Peckham Boys.

In 2006, the Peckham Boys were involved in a widely reported gang-war against the Ghetto Boys street gang based at the Pepys Estate in Deptford, South London. In the conflict, one innocent man was shot dead in New Cross, mistaken as a Ghetto Boys member by the Peckham Boys. He was shot at by a group of approximately 50 youths on mountain bikes, who cycled from Peckham to Deptford.

Shortly after the murder, another man was shot and stabbed in Deptford by the same group, but survived. Several members of the Ghetto Boys shot at youths in Peckham several days earlier. During the conflict, police seized handguns and sub-machine guns.

The dispute between the rival gangs has been ongoing for over 20 years