The murder of a boy who was stabbed near his front door by a gang was “glorified” in a drill rap video, a court has heard.

Bubacar Jabbie Dukureh, 17, who was known as Buba, was walking back to his home in Walthamstow, when he was attacked by five teenagers on the evening of October 23, 2020, the Old Bailey heard.

Buba was alone when he was stabbed in the chest and collapsed in his front garden in a pool of blood.

A resident of Westbury Road called emergency services, but Buba could not be saved and he was pronounced dead at 9.57pm.

Jurors were told a “painstaking” investigation uncovered a vast quantity of CCTV covering the time around the killing.

Prosecutor James Dawes KC said the footage uncovered a hostile group of five youths, two on bicycles and three on foot.

Samuel Bartley, 19, Jamal Dakissaga-Benitez, 19, Alfie Ferguson, 19, and Kaiyan Decordova, 20, were convicted of murder following an Old Bailey trial earlier this year.

An unnamed teenager, who was 15 at the time and now 17, is alleged to have been the fifth member of the group and is on trial for murder.

Mr Dawes said “ride-outs” – when gangs travel to another gang’s area - could be for retribution, to exact revenge for something or to establish dominance over an area.

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He went on: “It is the prosecution case that the attacking group were on a ride-out to an area controlled by rival gangs. They carefully prepared for this ride-out in advance.”

Mr Dawes said attackers were associated with the Higham Hill or Priory Court Boys gang which was in rivalry with neighbouring gangs called Drive Marlowe, and St James or the Mali Boys.

“It is the Crown’s case Buba had the appearance for them of a Mali Boy and that was sufficient to get him killed,” the prosecutor said.

Jurors were played a drill clip which was found on the phone belonging to the defendant Ferguson and focused on the victim’s address.

Mr Dawes said the video of February last year appeared to be “glorifying” the murder and was intended to be uploaded to the internet.

The defendant, who cannot be identified because of his age, denies murder.

The trial continues.

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