Drill rapper who boasted of rival's murder jailed for life
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A drill rapper who shot dead a gang rival outside a baby's birthday party and boasted about the murder in a video has been jailed for life along with three accomplices. Kammar Henry-Richards shot Kacey Boothe, 25, at Peterhouse Community Centre in Walthamstow, northeast London, in August 2022.
Mr Boothe was there for the first birthday of his friend Khalid Samanter's one-year-old child. Days later Henry-Richards, known as Kay-O, bragged about the killing in a video called Kay-O Laughing Stock, rapping that he used the same gun to injure the victim's brother two years earlier.
The lyrics read: "Big Boothe and Little got hit, same sig, that's a sour family. "Both got slapped at functions, neck and head, handguns come handy.". In another version, the lyrics read: "Big Boothe shoulda lurked, got his neck back ripped. Lil' got burst, shoulda bin with his.".
Henry-Richards, 26, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey with a minimum term of 37 years for the murder on Tuesday. Ka'mani Brightly-Donaldson, 25, of Romford, Jeffrey Gyimah, 23, and Joao Pateco-Te, 28, both of Hackney, were found guilty of murder, conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to possess a firearm or firearms with intent to endanger life.
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