Manhunt continues after aspiring rapper known as ‘Grippa’, 14, stabbed to death on south London bus in ‘postcode beef’

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/stabbing-woolwich-london-grippa-boy-14-dead-knife-crime/

by Anony_mouse202

22 comments

  1. His last instagram post – “any mindys?”

    Somalian for knife

    What the fuck are these kids doing

  5. What is it with violence and drill music. It’s always the same stories. Aspiring footballers and rappers etc.

  6. This will never be fixed with our current approach. It costs money, uses resources and takes a lot of time to change this sort of macho knife culture and without the will to do that more young men will die and the collatoral damage will get worse and worse.

  7. Just sad all around. From his lifestyle to his death it’s all just a huge waste.

    I think at 14 the worst thing I did was smoke weed a few times. These kids are being exposed to extreme violence and gang activity from extremely young ages, and then their ‘aspiring music careers’ is essentially listing people they’ve stabbed.

  12. We should imprison any youths who are involved in knife crime for long periods of time and have a zero tolerance approach with clear mandatory minimum sentences for stabbing someone, there is literally no benefit for society to keep these thugs on the streets.

    At this point I’m starting to wonder if the UK’s soft-sentencing approach is our politicians way of getting ethnic minority kids to murder each other because that’s cheaper than imprisonment? Why else are we tolerating this bloodshed

  13. ‘My council block is better than your council block, fam!’

  14. We need to step up our game in supporting young people and society in general.
    Parents need support to be good parents and the youth need support in learning to be good people.

  15. Live by the knife, die by the knife. Seems like the kid who was stabbed was talking about carrying knifes himself.

  16. “Aspiring rapper”; has a Instagram post asking for knives.

    Honestly it’s a cliche at this point.

  17. Fourteen years old. All but one of my children are older than him. He was so young and this is all so horrible.

  18. Always “aspiring rapper” as opposed to “known gang member”.

  19. When I was his age I was playing Halo 3 telling 40 year old yanks I’d slept with their mother

  20. The current postcode wars in London are just as moronic as the traditional scheme wars in Glasgow.

    Wasn’t so long ago the murder rate in Glasgow was double that of London until multiple organisations and institutions came together to form a clear, multi facted and joined up strategy to tackle the gang culture which was leading to dozens and dozens of murders with hundreds more stabbings and slashings each year.

    Folk would literally have to get multiple buses to get from their scheme into the centre of Glasgow to avoid going through a rival/adjacent scheme. It was insane then and is just as insane now in London.

    Requires funding and treating the gang culture like you would a health issue rather than solely a crime issue. Needs a community led approach by the police, additional resources for community centres and youth clubs, educational programmes etc.

  21. “Aspiring rapper”. Not a “promising architect” or “talented footballer”.

  22. I am not saying he deserved it at all but his lifestyle was very obviously within this realm of provoking each other with music, talking shit about other gangs and as someone pointed out his last Instagram post was enquiring about knives.

    It’s such a fucking shame that these dumbass kids continue the cycle of violence and blame it on a broken system. You cannot always help being poor but you sure as fuck can help being a twat who promotes violence.

    As someone who grew up on a rough as hell estate and not being white, options exist, you gain what you put in. If school fails you then you have college and night courses, you can make something of yourself and not resort to this gang lifestyle.

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