The Violent Boom In Asian Gangs Battling Over London | Gangs Of Britain | Absolute Crime
Brothers Gary and Martin Kemp turn their attentions to Britain's capital. London has always had criminals. The biggest city in Britain is like a magnet to those wanting to make a bob or two - even if that means taking the law into their own hands. Since the 1900's as many as 70 gangs have fought it out on London streets. The Second World War put pay to many of them but there was one vicious East End gang that kept alive even up to the 1960's though their origins went right back to the 19th century. Gary investigates the infamous Watney Streeters gang. A hundred years later a new wave of Asian immigrants had arrived in London. To protect themselves they formed gangs but it wasn't long before protection turned instead to extortion and then massive drug smuggling. Martin looks into the ruthless and dreaded Toot Nung gang from Southall, West London.
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Thanks for this, well documented and explained history of London's gangs and crime. Great to see the Kemp brothers again on our screens and the other experts came across as very well informed as also. More of this type of documentary please!
Great to see the kemp brothers back on our screens? Are you okay?
@@user-go6qh4ks2lIt’s his opinion, it’s called free speech. Are you ok?
Free speech for good thing only
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Well presented and informative. Thank you Kemp brothers.
The ham acting in this introduction is hilarious. Reminds me of the Ricky Gervais and Ross Kemp comedy sketch in the show 'Extras' where Kemp acts tough to impress.
Top class documentary and well presented by the Kemp boys ,more please ❤❤❤
I've seen gangs made up of people from all kinds of racial backgrounds that you might think wouldn't normally associate, brought together under one common cause, crime. A lot of young people are recruited into gangs in schools and colleges. The emphasis should be on preventing our young people from joining gangs in the first place. Thanks to organizations like the Italian Mafia and the Krays etc, gang life has been 'romanticised' in order to appeal to young people. A bit like how if you ask someone today what first comes to mind when you say the word 'pirate'. They will come back with some swashbuckling heart throb from a Hollywood movie. They have NO idea how violent and bloody old world piracy actually was. I'd try sending journalists and headteachers etc into prisons and getting prisoners who were also once gang members, to tell their stories about the reality of gang life on video, and urge young people NOT to join gangs. This would also give them the chance to express their remorse and make up, if only a little, for what they have done. These videos could then be shown to older school year groups as part of PHSE studies. More intervention at that stage might prevent them from joining gangs, and in turn, will make them better future parents and prevent their children from doing so too, so on so forth.
Prevention is better than cure, as you've said. The way to do this is by creating a culture of security/ good self-esteem and hope via education and job opportunities in society, until then crime will often win over delicate young souls.
I smell turd 🤡🦍✊
@brockit79 Absolutely nailed it.
If you want to stop kids doing crime, you have to give them viable alternatives and empower them by having the confidence and self belief to choose a different path. You also have to be honest with them and tell them why private prisons exist..who benefits from them..why, where the profits go and who invests in them. When you've got a 15 year old with 100 grand in a shoebox under their bed, simply telling them crime is bad and that they should go and get a job for 20k a year isn't going to cut it.
Penal system doesn't seem to be very harsh as it is in Asia which deters crime much better it seems.
A whole episode on asian gangs and not one interview with an asian . Great journalism 😂
Basically trying to put them down.... pathetic
@@renbassi1880how? 🙄
They don't want acid attacked or their family home arsoned, way to turn that into pathetic victimhood, did you really sit there and count, Did you forget Attar and what he said. Saddo
@@renbassi1880 "Them"
@@Blissblizzard lol . So what are you really saying ?
Banging Post 🔥
Nothing to do with racism... its about MONEY!!!!
Aye, they're trying to blame us for their behaviour, they never cease to amaze!
How do you know
@@sbaby-kg8hn oh please!!!!
@@ziggysawdust5407 they ?
@@sbaby-kg8hn He's a therapist and they tell him..
Perfect documentary for a relaxed Monday evening 😊
Tory & Labour are to blame for this terrible mess.
Those who own parliament, politicians, the royal family and banking establishment you mean.
South Asian gangs might be powerful in Southall, where almost everybody is South Asian. They can push around their own people, but everywhere else in London they have never really made much of an impact.
More prevalent up north where lots of Pakistanis but there are also ethnic gangs. London has strong Turkish drugs gangs. They have Essex white boy gangs etc etc
Check my KZhead channel, I have a documentary about a Bangladeshi gang who had fights with racist white people in east London, South Asian gangs were active in most areas of East London and fought racists and then got involved in crime later on.
Quite true, I don't think they have the same level of street credibility as Jamaicans for example
@@hemanthathirumaran7654But isn't that a good thing??
Play dumb to your mark
That dude talked so fast that I had no time to catch up my breath 😂
You can slow down the speed of talking
Used to work on the rails with Charlie's 2 brothers. Heard some great stories, along the old Kent Road at his old pub.
what kind of great stories? people being crippled and killed?
@@davyblackburn4090 if that's how your mind works? Knock yerself owt! 🤣🤣🤣
This is years old London has deteriorated significantly since this program
Very interesting
That bloke trying to excuse the gangs and blaming it on "racists". What a cope 😂😂
Racist skin heads was the first gang and people got together to defend against them that's why
That’s how the gangs started. It’s when the racism died down they began to victimise their own communities.
You clearly have no knowledge of the history of racism in Southall do you ? Maybe read up about it, and you may get a little education on reality
@@shsh-he5qg ah, you're one of those, aren't you? You will blame historic racism for the any poor choices made by people.
The poor choice was having these people in the UK FULL STOP@@joelhall5124
Sadiq khan is their leader.
Dulickhead
Let me guess, Nigel Farage still your saviour ..what happened with the Brexit aye ?! 😂😂😂
@@GizmoMaxx eeeem no ..thank you for racist comment
As long as the gap between the rich and the poor keep widening world wide, this is what we are going to get. The wider the gap, the worse the problems are going to be…
The actual problem is open borders and left wing politics allowing everybody into the countries. All of Europe and by now even the US learns this lesson the hard way. Within a decade Sweden turned from the most peaceful european country into a total hell hole because the left-wing politicians decided it would be a great idea to import countless muslims and africans. Same in France, Germany, Italy, the UK, everywhere and they all brought their gang culture (and homophobia, sexism, racism, antisemitism and pedophilia) with them. And leftists wonder how it could be that way, while ignorant fools blame it on money, lol.
Well all the British Gangster have moved to South of Spain. So just like all other industries we are having to import to fill the vacancies.
*IF YOU LISTEN CAREFULLY, YOU CAN HEAR OVERHEAD ENOCH WHISPERING..."I TOLD YOU SO..."*
Not that old chestnut.If you study British History you will learn that Asian gangs.First operated In Liverpool London and Glassgow .As far back as the 1950s.
@@barbarahalkyard1901 and Enoch would of already observed this 😉
You need to stop attending those séances..😅
@@EpicAelflaedI dont see how .It was already going on when he joined the Tory party.
Should’ve listened to sir Enoch Powell
Who
Worst of all we have a paki prime minister a Asian mayor decades ago there would of been uproar the prime minister of this country needs to be WHITE
No one cared about him then and even after death. Even his descendants don't come to the forefront and speak on his "legacy". He is just remembered by a fringe element in online KZhead comments 😂
@@user-em4dx6sg7y were you his neighbour 😂🇬🇧
@@darrenlennox2313 something like that yeh :)
You used the name Khan. That isn't a HINDU NAME.
Out of the whole documentary, you just wanted to hear the name Mohammed didn't you? Be honest.
Is not ? Maybe is Mongolian? Or Pakistan ? Yet, alot of Indian use Khan
The original Khan are Mongolian yes
@@salihmahmud411 indeed...Genshin Khan...
@@Moodboard39only muslims in India use Khan as surname
What year was this documentary
Interesting upload. There was a band ad on before this, I Wish You Were Dead. Great song, if you're reading this! I tend to watch the ads, sometimes good information. If only KZhead would enable more information about the adverts! Please!
This video is quite refreshing to watch because it was Britain that used to export violence and crimes to other countries.
Thugees enter the chat
@@Blissblizzard My same thought about you as well.
Paj eet enters the chat 🚽
@atlantismed471 UK is now an Indian colony 😄😁😆😆😅🤣All the stolen artifacts in the museum of thefts will now be returned to their rightful owners.🥺🥺🥺
@@Seven.Heavenly.Sins.666 The Greek. Romans, Sumerians, Babylonians etc - funny enough the advanced Indians are brahmins (indo-european). Plus many of those artifacts would have been destroyed by daesh and so on.
About 30 years to late making this, we are talking millions a year from drug dealing- Whitechapel ( in 1990) I knew smack dealers who had 3 cars driving around 24/7 ( by day driggies shoplifting by night the hookers/ working girls from Shoreditch Whitechapel all round brick lane; were talking 3 phones with sequential numbers that was ringing non stop- easy selling a few ounces a day of both ( smack & crack) the working girls ( what 150 of them) would spend 300-400 a night EASY - we're talking serious money & very serious violence- they had a car hire company that the drivers would use & this was also how they was laundering the money, having 30 cars -high end range rovers Audi Q8s that they would allow the gangs to use free ( ferrari & 911S Rolls Royce the higher end the more they was laundering ) as the cars was never hired but shared for free & tge miney from the drug dealing was going through this business- this is just the one I happened to know a whole load about but we're talking millions- in fact it's just got worse, certain areas you stand on a street & within 19 mins you'll be offered drugs ( this is what caused the violence-
6 years ago I was doing a day shift on a film unit as security, round mile end. I got chatting to a down and out. He told me that about 2 weeks previously the cops caught a gang of 42 people in one organisation, shutting down the phone line they were running. He said they were all are east Asian
@@jazztheglass6139 oh yes it's HUGE & runs like a Swiss watch- the police take out 42 people ( thats just 1 of many ) that next night not 8 hrs later tgey have 3 new drivers per 8hr shift- new phones & its back running again- that Area makes the drug abuse / prostitution problem in soho look silly- talking millions literally 🙄
Sounds like the lot from brick lane.
@@anewdayali2538 that's them 👌
@@jazztheglass6139 All Bangladeshi if its mile end
Holiday Season You mean Christmas that spoilt a Great Presentation.
The same ones that merged Christmas with Ramadan and Chanuka are the same ones that brought IN that crime into White areas
Not Asian, that’s disingenuous towards Chinese, Koreans, Thais etc. they are Pakistani, say it like it is.
Not only Pakistanis, also Indian subcontinent,Bangladeshi, Sri Lankans.
Agree
What Americans call South Asians (as opposed to East Asians). Perhaps we should use those categories?
People from Indian subcontinent are also Asian.
It was about Indians (Sikhs and Hindus) Not Pakistanis (Muslims) you fool.
Explains Sadiq.
these kemp brothers act like they are top criminal practitioners themselves. with there "jack the lad" delivery and pseudo menacing expressions. as far as i know there claim to fame extends no further than pop music and acting. the closest they came to being "criminals" seems to be their portrayal of the kray twins 34 years ago. i find them comical.
Should be more specific. These are South Asians.
I can tell you're not from the UK.
I dont know any country called South Asia
@@petepipee6751 I don't know any country called Europe either, yet British people are still European. Country and continent aren't mutually exclusive you know.
By that logic Pakistanis who live in Uk are Brits. arnt they?
@@petepipee6751 or you might say better to put they got kicked out of the EU beacuse the don't the rules that the preach
It's about money, rascim and violence is a by product
Yes I think money is the strongest motive. Most things can benefit from having money. Money is the oil.
Get rid of all the gangs
Yes especially the ones in uniform that think there duty is to protect the elite pedophiles
Wow what a fresh and revolutionary idea I bet nobody else has ever thought of that!
@@harrisr1018😂
Then where would people get their drugs from?
When they have to return home when people have had enough, life will be tough for them back home.
Did the Irish return home I don't think so.
I hope so...but your reyssist ilk outside europe must also go back..humans dont want wite settlers outside europe...
I thought they were talking about Labour & Conservatives politics mafia gangs 😅😅
Jesus these 2 🤡🤡 milking the life out of the Kray bollox
Get rid of the gangs now
If govt wanted that they wouldn’t wait for permission.
So good to see the kemp brothers again grate documentary thankyou
Great not grate.
Recruitment usually happens for earlier schools and colleges maybe these people want to know these people that they're from there hood as they so called many more of us than they are
Heroin decimated British youth throughout the seventies and on. Martin Kemp is right to say it’s as bad as ever. But Indian people are not the consumers in any great number. Heroin is one reason Britain was ethnically cleansed, but no one will mention that. You can see the results by walking down any street in Britain now. Interestingly, scourges found around the world, like crystal meth and fentanyl are not found in Britain like they are in America or the far east. Is that because we have a more recent population who protect the traditional drug of the South Asia?
Indians are far far far better educated and wealthy than White Brits.
That is so ironic given that Brits were the ones who pursued and benefited from the Opium trade that still impacts Afghanistan and Myanmar, not to mention HK history. It's poetic in a way.
Brilliant ....who'd do we phone
Ghostbusters.
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Is this a free AI thank you letter created for a popular employee who is leaving their job? Or did you copy & paste the wrong text into a YT comment? On a 20 year old documentary that was produced by a large team of professionals. 🤔
So no peaky blinders , just Raju and Mohammad.
So sad
I was expecting the Triads.
Well watch American documentaries then
Funny how Brits say Asian but they're not Asian
That shopkeepers today have to pay protect money is a huge law enforcement failure-waste of tax money that people work hard for.
How the tables have turned
Absolutely Brill, diversity at it's best.. loving it
Mate people didn't wanna come here ur military invaded countries jus like it does today displaced people from homes and invites them over it spends money on wars not on U u wanns stop diversion stoo invading countries and killing people and people wount come here ur attcking gaza today planning on inviting them over coz u want there land
We are losing the west bruv. This is ours init? Why are we letting these nonce take it.
Diversity or not.. country is a shithole
Well well well
@@aaliyahmacintosh5794 no , pmsl, pmsl, pmsl...🤡🤡🤡🦍 lovon it
How old is this doc?
2013
I resent the use of the word "Asian" which includes very peaceful East Asian cultures
Enriching.
Hi from London
Sunrise radio was in brownslow (hounslow) in the 80's, when avtar litt operated allegedly unofficially. The office in southalabad (around the former walls facory) of sunrise radio came about a least a decade after this pirate radioacy.
Gangs does this still exist I thought all these were in the movies wow you learn something new everyday……
Police is too weak here
I think in the start, they fought for survival. Now, companies need these professionals for their own survival.
i thought it was about the shelby's
So you are just leaning back to let it happen?
Read the book, Easy Meat,, about the. Pakistani grooming gangs of great Britain.
Tooti nuns vs holy smokes 😂 southall late 80s
Gold!
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Is Gary and Martin Kemp, Ross Kemp’s kids?
What have you done Dry Eye !!
This was an interesting watch, but I worked in the area of Tooting for over twenty years from the mid seventies to the late nineties and never heard of any gangs or gang warfare in this area. Also living as a child in Bermondsey was aware of Cable Street, there was always the threat of the Cable Street gang, as we new them, being told to not go there after dark, or if you did, at your own peril, yes, there were Irish immigrants, but don’t forget there was also Chinese and Maltese in the area who could look after themselves as well and could be just as ruthless!!!
This is a bit tame. Ross Kemp is better with gangs. He meets them. Grant from EastEnders i mean.
I always was curious why my Indian waiter was so happy and drove a fancy car...😮
Tu Aya bada angrez
Why work 9-5 when you can be in a gang. Sad but true
Blames crime on racism. 😂. How surprising
when they forced condon to be more 'correct', the police lost contact and control over a huge part of the market, hence, the success of the golden mile in harringey
YES CONDON , seemed to vanish .?
The golden mile what is that ? I genuinely don't no where that is
this was going on 20 years ago. to little to late
This must be a very old documentary. You can tell by the London skyline
These “Asian” gangs are predominantly Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi. Britain needs to come up with a new label for people from the Indian sub-continent. Most countries call them “South Asian.”
Asian means Subcontinent lol
The abuses of the long ton, creaming off the top. Baker's dozens.
Asif khan hes bringing it in lol
South asian gang....be specific
This much is true .
The UK royals are the biggest gang in London.
You forgot Chalvey boys. They scared the world. 🎉
Deport deport deport
Yo mama
Where would you have deported the krays to ?😂
Have the same energy for the krays or the Richardsons
australia @@shsh-he5qg
Gangs are okay in your book just as long as they are white English 😂😂
Only in the UK that I, a Korean, am not referred to as "Asian" but "Chinese"...
Now u know how us (south)Asians feel when American call us “Indian”
Because racist white English people from working class backgrounds can't tell the difference because they are not too smart
You look similar to Chinese that’s why
Even with KPop? And K animé
@@Skizz-iy7oubecause south Asian is Indian. In the past, the area was part of a united India, undivided India called Akhand Bharat
I assume his program was sponsored by BBC
Tooting nuns were behind Heathrow cash van robbery twice in 2001 and 2002 I was there working at Heathrow
Think this is an old doc
Well Enoch Powell did warn us but as usual we never heed the warnings.
The most notorious Asian gangs in London are Bangladeshis followed by some Sri Lankans. The Pakistanis are more notorious up North of England.
very very very weak police and polititions toughen up or wake up
Back then the police were tough. Unlike today.
Thought that this was about football.
Pencil neck Kemp doing hard man stuff 😅😅
It's not 'Asian' not 'South Asian' it's Pakistani gangs. 100 percent of them are Pakistanis
It’s talking about the past history what’s it like now it’s still the same is it different I should imagine a more of them now that particular that these people
What a pair of muppets 😂
U won't change
Stealing from a thief is a crime?
Martin/Gary kemp….. give me a break both muppets of the highest order 😂😂
Southall and the police operation called shampoo only a few will understand
British 🇬🇧 Police are tooo Woke 🤬🤬🤬
Yes ! Moar ! 😂😂😂
Asian gangs? Where did they come from? Totally shocked.