Drill rappers face life sentences for stabbing this footballer to death

Two drill rappers who knifed a former Southampton youth footballer to death in a tit-for-tat gang war and posted videos celebrating his murder are facing life sentences. Tariq Monteiro, 23, and Siyad Mohamud, 24, followed 16-year-old Alex Smith in convoy after spotting him leaving Nando’s in Great Portland Street on 12 August 2019. Monteiro, 21, who raps as Suspect, and Siyad Mohamud, 23, known as Swavey, with four others, chased Alex on foot before stabbing him to death in Munster…

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