Rapper’s mate gunned down in drugs row

A friend of rapper Dizzee Rascal was shot dead in the street after he confronted a dealer selling drugs near his home, a court heard. Brenton Roper, 41, was blasted in the back as he tried to run away from his killers before being stabbed five five times in the backside and thigh. Mr Roper, who starred in a video for Dizzee Rascal’s 2015 hit Nutcrackerz, bled to death despite the efforts of members of public to give him first…