Carlos Neto has been jailed for killing Gordon Gault
A judge has criticised drill music as a 'pernicious genre' after it played a role in stoking violence between two gangs which led to a 14-year-old being fatally stabbed in the street. Gordon Gault was stabbed on the arm with a machete as he rode on the back of a friend's e-bike in Newcastle's West End in November 2022 and died six days later in hospital.
The judge said a feud had simmered between Neto's gang, who had an interest in drill music, and rival youths in Elswick. Sentencing, he said: "This is a pernicious genre of music in that it tends to glorify violence." The dead boy's mother read a victim impact statement to the court, urging people not to carry knives. She wept as she said: "The devastation your actions cause is unimaginable."
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