On February 8, 2024, Sussex Police arrested Mekai Brown and Michael King for carrying weapons in a residential area. Months later, they participated in a gang war in Southend involving weapons and violence. Ten members of rival gangs, aged between 14 and 18, had 29 prior convictions. A businessman, Nick Singer, expressed outrage at the leniency of the judicial response to repeat offenders like Tyler Omo-Irogho, who had multiple convictions yet received minimal punishment for serious offenses involving weapons.
On February 8, 2024, Sussex Police received a report of two men hanging around a residential area in balaclavas. Officers apprehended the pair and found one had a machete down the leg of his trousers. He was Mekai Brown, now 19, of Higham Road in Woodford Green. His accomplice was Michael King, now 18, of Crescent Road in South Woodford.
Ten members of two rival Newham gangs, caught for their involvement in the savage violence, were all between 14 and 18 years old but between them already had convictions for 29 offences.
For possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence in summer 2023, Tyler Omo-Irogho was given a referral order. The gun was treated as imitation because it was never recovered.
I'm a little bit speechless, to be honest. They've got all this previous and they've been allowed to walk the streets. I'm shocked. The level of violence in their lives should have been dealt with there and then.
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