Walthamstow: Drill rapper jailed for rival gang member’s murder

Ka’mani Brightly-Donaldson, 25, from Enfield, Joao Pateco-Te, 28, from Hackney, and Jeffrey Gyimah, 23, from Hackney, were also handed life sentences.

Brightly-Donaldson was told he would serve a minimum term of 38 years, Pateco-Te 37 years and Gyimah 35 years.

All four defendants had admitted being associated with the E9 gang or the linked Holly street gang which were involved in a long standing feud with their rivals, the London Fields gang.

Mr Boothe was attending a party on 13 August at the community centre for the one-year-old son of his friend Khalid Samanter.

Judge Lynn Tayton KC said the offence was committed in a public place where it was known children and members of the public would be coming and going.

“This was a planned revenge attack arising out of gang rivalry in the context of an ongoing pattern of serious tit-for-tat violence,” she said.

At their trial, the prosecution said Mr Samanter had been the intended target of the gang.

In the lead up to the shooting, planning meetings took place in a cafe in Leytonstone throughout the day.

Jurors were told the gun used to murder Mr Boothe was the same one used to shoot his older brother Kyle Boothe two years before.

The Old Bailey heard Henry-Richards had written drill lyrics boasting about the same weapon being used.

They 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.”

Prosecutor Anthony Ochard KC said: “The track contained specific information about the circumstances in which Kacey Boothe had been killed that were not in the public domain.”