Cops arrest 29 members of gang known for dealing drugs and plotting murder

A FEARED gang involved in drug dealing and murder plots had 29 of their crew arrested in a major UK-wide crackdown yesterday.

 BUSTED: Around 700 officers took part in the early morning raids across 
 

Police targeted the notorious Guns And Shanks, responsible for shooting and paralysing five-year-old Thusha Kamaleswaran in 2011.

Around 700 officers took part in the early morning raids across London, Essex, Bedfordshire, the Thames Valley region and Scotland.

The ruthless mob are linked to drug dealing, robbery, serious violence and attempted murder, a Met Police spokesman said.

Force chiefs have described them as one of the “most high-harm crim-inal networks” in the country. Officers carried out a dozen searches in the capital and 11 others across Britain.

Det Chief Insp Tim Champion, who led the swoops, said it was the latest stage of a Met operation focusing on the gang, which was founded in Lambeth, south London, but has spread across Britain.

A total of 88 arrests have been made in recent months.
Scotland Yard said the operation targeted what were believed to be “the most senior ranking members”.

So far they have found around 300 rocks of crack cocaine, a large amount of heroin and £5,000 in cash.
Little Thusha was caught in the crossfire during a Guns And Shanks shooting rampage as she played in her uncle’s shop in Stockwell, south London, in 2011.