Two jailed over rap lyrics murder







Mr Holmes was shot three timesTwo men have been jailed for life for murdering a music fan after a row over the lyrics of a rap song.
Richard Holmes, 21, was shot dead by associates of rapper Dwayne Mahorn, known as MC Durrty Goodz, in Chingford, east London, on 4 November 2005.
Killers Anthony Green, 35, of Loughton, Essex and Carl Dobson, 23, of Stratford, London, were given 30-year minimum terms at the Old Bailey.
Mr Mahorn, 25, of Chingford, east London, was cleared of murder.
The court heard Mr Mahorn, who was also cleared of manslaughter, complained the song by Mr Holmes's friend, Sabar Shah, 16, was disrespectful to him, a court heard.
Hail of bullets
The song accused Mr Mahorn of having "lost touch with his roots", said Richard Horwell, QC, prosecuting.
Mr Shah's lyrics said: "Over the years, things change in the hood. I used to have a lot of respect for Durrty Goodz - Not no more."
Mr Horwell said Mr Shah's point was he felt Mr Mahorn had turned his back on the estate since his music career had taken off.






The killing was about "revenge, false pride, misplaced loyalty"
Mr Horwell said Mr Mahorn cornered Sabar Shah, himself a budding rapper who was known as Shak, and demanded an apology.
"I am a 24-year-old man," Mr Mahorn is alleged to have told him. "I can't have a 16-year-old saying things like that to me."
Shak refused to apologise and later that evening Mr Holmes and some friends were surrounded by associates of Mr Mahorn armed with a Mach-10 machine gun.
Mr Holmes was shot in the leg and the back as he ran off with his friends under a hail of bullets.
The Common Serjeant of London Judge Brian Barker said: "This was an operation of staggering ruthlessness and arrogance.
"This was nothing but a cold-blooded killing."
Det Ch Insp Matt Horne, who led the investigation, said: "The fact the catalyst for the violence was the lyrics of a song somehow makes [Richard's] death even more senseless."
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Over what...FOOLISHNESS...I have nothing to say for now!!!

will come back later, coz this is annoying me far too much... mad-moonie

The black guy on the right is a crap MC known as Crazy Titch

Needless waste of two African lives. This is just bullsh*t....and considering one of them is a grown arse 35 year old??? Honestly...

I don't know why you had to racialise it, but this was sad. This white dude was killed over nothing. He didn't kill someone's dog, rape someone mum.

This 16 year old yute whom he produced the track for, said that he had 'lost touch with his roots'

Of all the reasons to kill someone, this is probably the worst I have heard in a while. And it was over his brother Durrtyz Goodz, who has set himself up as a 'conscious' mc for a while now ( I got his mixtape and he says violence is wrong blah blah blah) - well what a hypocrite ey?#

If you want to see more of the dude that gunned that young dude down see this

RIP Richard Holmes

I don't know why you had to racialise it, but this was sad. This white dude was killed over nothing. He didn't kill someone's dog, rape someone mum.

This 16 year old yute whom he produced the track for, said that he had 'lost touch with his roots'

Of all the reasons to kill someone, this is probably the worst I have heard in a while. And it was over his brother Durrtyz Goodz, who has set himself up as a 'conscious' mc for a while now ( I got his mixtape and he says violence is wrong blah blah blah) - well what a hypocrite ey?#

If you want to see more of the dude that gunned that young dude down see this

RIP Richard Holmes

What's more bothersome is that more and more people seem to blissfully think they'd get away with such crime.

Consequence.....Alien concept to some.

Projection.....What? never heard of it.


Some people must spend most of their timedaydreaming about prison or something.