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Tottenham Mandem (TMD) .
Location
London Borough of Haringey. , organised on over a dozen estates and main
thoroughfares throughout Tottenhams N15 and N17 postal districts. Main base has
historically been the Broadwater Farm housing estate followed by south
Tottenham.
History
In the late 1970's, a group of individuals known as the Broadwater Farm Posse
were active on the Broadwater Farm estate (see Broadwater Farm Posse. ). The
Tottenham Mandem, known originally as 'Frontliners' or 'Totten'am Boys', were a
follow on generation to the Farm Posse who had firmly established their
reputation by the time of the 1985 riots on the Broadwater Farm estate.
Police Constable Keith Blakelock was murdered during the course of those riots.
When alleged Broadwater Farm Posse member Winston Silcott was first in custody
after the riots, during questioning after being asked did you murder Police
Constable Blakelock, the police claimed he had been put in the frame by local
youths, also with alleged involvement.
Amongst those kids allegedly involved was Mark Lambie. Lambie was born in 1971
and acquired a string of violent offences as a youth. As said, his first major
allegation was the murder of PC Blakelock, who was hacked to death, in 1985
when he was just 14. Lambie laughed as the case against him and two other
juveniles collapsed. In the following years he built up a fearsome reputation
for shootings, robbery, kidnap, torture and drug-running. Flaunting gold
jewellery, designer clothes and expensive cars, he went on the lead the
Tottenham Mandem gang after the older generation had moved away from the gritty
end of the business, staying in the background to organise and arrange drugs
and firearms for the street gangsters of north London.
Lambie's first major conviction was in 1991 following a gang shooting in
Holloway to which he pleaded guilty for assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
By the mid-1990's, Lambie had links across London (in other notorious areas
such as Harlesden, Ladbroke Grove, Lambeth and Lewisham) and beyond. He and the
Tottenham Mandem took control over large parts of London's street drug trade,
often by force and extreme violence. By 1995, one of his main rivals was
another alleged street gangster Jerome Maddix. There was a drive-by at Maddix's
home and he was murdered the following year in Jamaica.
Maddix's murder was followed by a series of tit-for-tat shootings between TMD
and their rivals from northwest London. Lambie was believed to be an associate
of the Lock City Crew. , who were also engaged in rivalry with another
northwest London 'Yardie' gang. Several murders had occurred by the late 1990's
involving older criminals linked to Tottenham and Harlesden, one of which saw
disc jockey Laverne Forbes and her partner Patrick 'Nookie' Smith gunned down
at their home on the Ferry Lane estate N17.
In 1996, police believed that Lambie and an associate Clifford Angol were
behind the shooting and wounding of Kenneth Rowe in Willesden. Rowe, originally
from Stamford Hill, had been part of a gang of steamers from South Tottenham,
Stamford Hill and Clapton, called the DMC Posse in the late 1980's. Rowe
declined to aid police in his shooting. The following April, in what appeared
to be an attack against Lambie, two men were shot in a case of mistaken
identity at the Place To Be Caribbean restaurant in Kensal Rise. Three gunmen
walked into the restaurant asking for 'Mark' to identify himself. Mark Lambie,
who was believed to have been there, kept quiet. Instead two other men
identified themselves and taking no precautions the gunmen shot both. One was
Mark Spence, an unemployed painter and decorator, who was immediately shot
dead. The other, Mark Verley, was shot in the spine and paralysed. He died
sometime later.
It is not known whether or not Kenneth Rowe was one of the gunmen but six weeks
later he himself was shot dead in Mount Pleasant Lane, Upper Clapton. Lambie
and Angol, suspects in the earlier shooting, were arrested although there was
insufficient evidence. A couple of days later Clifford Angol was shot dead as
he sat in Lambie's BMW outside the Warwick Castle Pub in Portobello Road. The
gunman had pulled up beside him in a yellow car and calmly shot him six times.
The youngest generation of Tottenham Mandem began to establish their fearsome
and violent reputation from 1996-97. The TMD sphere of control in north London
at that point was tremendous. They had influence over a host of new developing
gangs that also arose in the late 1990's such as Edmonton Firm. , Wood Green
Firm. , Hornsey. , parts of N19 and bits of N16. This younger generation grew
in secondary schools amongst young teens from 1994-95, together they were the
'Firm' encompassing the aforementioned areas, but they started to become
independent by 1996-97. The wider gang organisation grew to become seemingly a
very organised unit of bosses, lieutenants, soldiers and areas based groups.
The older generations were responsible for different parts of north London and
the local drug markets.
At the top was Mark Lambie, known also as "The Prince of Darkness" or as
"Phantom". He was the boss of the 'street team' that was TMD. Above him
remained the old timers who maintained drug and firearm connections amongst the
organised criminal element with links to the Caribbean. Below Lambie there was
lieutenants who controlled geographical areas: these included men such as
Anthony Bourne, known as Blue from Edmonton, who headed the Edmonton Firm
(sometimes referred to as Edmonton Mandem), Warren Leader was based in Wood
Green and then there was a host of infamous Tottenham criminals.
In 1997, the youngers of TMD, aged predominantly in their mid to late teens,
came into conflict with another gang predominantly from London Fields in
Hackney. It was one of London's most bloodiest and intense gang rivalries
claiming several lives in six years.
Tottenham Mandem versus Hackney Boys (London Fields) 1997-2003
At this point in time the Hackney Boys. were predominantly from the London
Fields area although were close to other Hackney Boys on the Pembury and
Mothers Square estates, it was not quite a borough wide gang but covered the
E2/E5/E8 postcodes. According to the book, Guns and Gangs, by Grahame McLagan
the police Operation Trident unit put the start of the war down to the killing
of Guydance Dacres, 16, who was shot dead in Chimes in January 1997. It
occurred at a private party when Tottenham Mandem associate Anthony 'Blue'
Bourne was alleged to have fired a gun at the club which hit and killed Hackney
youth Dacres. However, the real ignition is believed by many to have been
brought on earlier. In 1995, a couple of youths from Tottenham had been
friendly with youths from London Fields and Pembury, they went out together
robbing people, including young dealers, in other parts of north London. They
also went on steaming robberies across shops. The Tottenham youths however
started to come back to Hackney and re-rob the Hackney youths which caused very
serious grievances. One of the TMD youths stabbed a Hackney Boy from Pembury in
the leg during one of the re-robberies, an act which led to a series of
cyclical violence between the two areas.
Rare Tottenham & Hackney Link Up - The Slums Im From.
A couple of TMD youths were confronted by Hackney Boys follwing this, which
incidentally also came a month after the murder of Dacres. The TMD boys were
chased but one youth, Kingsley 'Popcorn' Iyasara was cornered into a block of
flats on the Carlton Lodge estate, a small estate around Carlton Road just
north of Finsbury Park. He was beaten up and then shot dead in the presence of
at least six members of the Hackney Boys. He bled to death on the roof of a
block of flats. The 16-year-old Popcorn was well known and well connected in
the Tottenham area.
One TMD youth, and later music artist Clint Ponton, helped convict the six
suspects from Hackney having also been chased along with Popcorn, and whilst a
single killer was not identified the suspects were all sentenced at the Old
Bailey for between four and six years each. It was also alleged Ponton had
arranged a deal with the seventh suspect who was found not guilty. The Hackney
youths were largely from London Fields, whilst TMD where largely from
Broadwater Farm. Although this conflict is often labelled Hackney versus
Tottenham, it's really more linked to those two estates within each borough.
The series of killings and reprisals between the two areas really kicked off in
the late 1990's. Two of those convicted for the murder of Popcorn were shot
dead by TMD soon after their release from prison in separate incidents. In June
1999, Meneliek Robinson, 20, was driving his red BMW convertible in Hackney
when it was followed by two motorbikes. One pulled in front of the BMW,
blocking its way, whilst another stopped beside it. The pillion passenger
dismounted and walked up to the side window firing several shots. Two years
later in April 2001 another of the Hackney Boys convicted, Corey Wright, 20,
was also shot dead in his car in Hackney. His friend who was with him, Wayne
Henry, was also killed. The shots fired into Wright's BMW caused the vehicle to
lose control and it went off the road into a bus stop by Thistlethwaite Road in
Lower Clapton. These were some of the 8 gang and organised crime related
killings that earned Lower and Upper Clapton Road the reputation as 'Murder
Mile'.
Although the murders were never solved, some people believe Clint Ponton had
some involvement and it is alleged he contacted the Hackney Boys to deny his
involvement a couple of days after the murders of Wright and Henry. Hackney
responded with the murder of TMD / Firm member Adrian 'Buckhead' Crawford from
Edmonton. He was murdered in December 2002 after being shot down in a hail of
bullets in front of his pregnant girlfriend in West Green Road, Tottenham.
Hackney Boy Daniel 'DC' Cummings, who was also a Hounslow club promoter, was
pinned with the murder having been identified by witnesses. However, Clint
Ponton again comes into the frame according to street legends. They go along
the lines that Daniel Cummings was not behind the killing but Clint Ponton had
forced Crawford's girlfriend to identify Cummings, a strategic move of sorts.
Cummings has been serving a life sentence since 2003.
A series of events following the Crawford murder led to the eventual death of
Hackney boy Jason Fearon. It happened at Turnmills club in Clerkenwell during a
So Solid Crew event (an act managed by Tottenham Mandem's later NorthStar team)
where singer Lisa Maffia was to be promoting her debut single. An anonymous
tip-off was made to Crimestoppers that there would be trouble at the event and
there was an attempt to prevent the event going ahead but the event organiser
refused. As a result the police parked a vehicle outside the club hoping that
would deter any would be gunmen.
However, in the early hours several men burst into the nightclub firing shots,
injuring one person. The gunfire continued as the targets were chased into the
street. Jason Fearon and another man, who police believe was the main target,
made away in an Audi TT sports car. They were followed by two Tottenham men,
who police believed to be Clint Ponton and Wes Lambie, firing shots into the
Audi from their BMW during a car chase. Fearon who was wearing a bullet proof
vest was hit in the head and died.
Clint Ponton, also known as C1 or The Chosen One, and Wes Lambie went into the
music industry forming the label NorthStar whilst with the Tottenham Mandem.
Meanwhile, in the background to these seven killings, Mark Lambie had become a
target of the recently formed Metropolitan Police unit Operation Trident.
Bringing Down Lambie
By 2000, Lambie had gained a reputation for being untouchable and for having
mythical powers, believed by some to possess 'ju-ju powers' - of being a
Obeahman, a Jamaican voodoo spirit who can never be killed. He become the
number one nominal for Operation Trident detectives. Despite his high ranking
position he was still involved in shooting incidents. In November 1999, he was
named as the shooter in an incident at the Coliseum nightclub in Vauxhaul,
south London. He was charged with attempted murder but the victim later
withdrew the evidence, as many victims of TMD and their predecessors have
always done. In another incident, Lambie and a man known as Michael 'Mallet'
Thomas, fired shots at the EQ nightclub in Hackney. After this incident,
Stephan Grant was shot dead, believed to be by TMD members. Six firearms were
found in an abandoned car at the scene.
In another drug related shooting in 2000, Hackney dealer Darren Henry was shot
dead in Sandal Road, Upper Edmonton N18. He had been lured to the area by rival
drug dealer Andrew Martin who had kidnapped Henry's half brothers and held them
hostage. He shot Henry between the shoulder blades with a handgun before
leading police on a high speed chase. Kidnapping rivals from Hackney was a
trait of Lambie and Tottenham, but it would be his downfall.
Police suspected Lambie in many cases but never had enough evidence to stick.
It was not until the 19th April 2001 that they caught him 'at it'.
The day started with police following Lambie from his Streatham home to
Tottenham where he met up with friends and associates. Things began to look
interesting for officers when they all moved off together in a convoy of three
vehicles with the police following. However, they come across difficulties
fairly quickly as the cars drove into the Broadwater Farm estate, police
decided it was too risky to follow because they were mostly white and would
have stood out on the predominantly black estate. Instead they waited outside
the estate hoping to see Lambie drive off. He was seen leaving in a Golf
together with a blue sports car. After a few minutes the sports car was
abandoned and the driver got into Lambie's car. The two then drove to south
Tottenham and parked up in Turner Avenue before attending a house party on a
nearby estate. There had been 12-hours surveillance and it looked as though
nothing was going to happen and the detectives decided they were going to call
it a day.
On getting back to Tottenham police station a Jamaican, frightened and injured,
dashed into the station with an amazing story of kidnap and torture by Lambie.
It emerged that it had happened right under the noses of the surveillance team
as they were sitting waiting outside Broadwater Farm. Jamaican Gregory 'Beenie
Man' Smith and his friend Towayne 'Tupac' Morris had been lured to the estate
by Lambie's associate Anthony 'Blue' Bourne who said they wanted to meet to
discuss a mutual girlfriend. The Jamaicans headed there in the blue sports car
detectives had seen abandoned earlier that day. They told detectives how they
had been pistol whipped and bundled into the boots of two cars and taken to an
address near Turner Avenue. They were taken to the upstairs room of a flat and
attacked and tortured with a hammer and kettle of hot water whilst threatened
to pay £20,000 in drugs and cash to Lambie. Smith had managed to escape and ran
to the police station.
Mark Lambie and Anthony Bourne were convicted of kidnap and blackmail and
sentenced to 12-years in May 2002. Other gang members Warren Leader and Francis
Osei were also convicted. Lambie and Bourne have finished serving their
sentences for these offences. Clint Ponton was cleared of all charges and
freed.
Even after Lambie's arrest, Trident killings continued to occur around the Farm
and across Tottenham Mandem's area. In October 2001, an 18-year-old, Tyrone
Rowe, was shot dead as he and his friends were in a car on West Green Road near
the Ida estate on route to a party. A second man was discovered near the scene
with stomach wounds. The killer was described as a black man, aged around 30
and wearing a three-quarter length black leather jacket. No motive has ever
been established and the case remains unsolved. In 2010 an appeal was made
urging those with information to come forward and help end the families ordeal.
A £10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to a prosecution.
Shortly after the killing, three men were spotted driving a lime green people
carrier towards Wood Green.
In June 2002, Harrington Mark Jack, 31, also known by various other names
including Andrew Brown or by first names Douglas and Doug, was shot dead at a
flat in Ermine House, Moselle Street by White Hart Lane. Known by the street
name 'Dog', he was shot during a scuffle with two men which could have been
witnessed by a dozen people. A young man was then stabbed to death on the
Chestnut estate in October 2002. Less than a year later, in March 2003,
41-year-old Patrick Anthony Morrison from Edmonton was shot dead in the
stairwell of a housing block on Broadwater Farm. All killings remain unsolved.
CCTV cameras on the Broadwater Farm estate captured the events around the
killing of 28-year-old Gavin Smith in October 2003. He was dragged from his car
into a block of flats before being taken to Lordship Recreation Ground where he
was found dead. This was one attributed by the police to the Yardies. Jason
McDonald and Dwayne Millwood were accused of inflicting the fatal stab wounds.
Jamaican Millwood blamed the killing on another gangster who was deported.
Smith came to London from Jamaica in 2000 and lived in Lewisham, he was
involved in drug dealing, delivering and collecting packages on behalf of the
boyfriend of his sister, Donald Vincent. He fell foul of rivals whilst making a
call at Tangmere House on the Farm. In March 2004, TMD member Marcus Cox was
shot dead on Tottenham High Road. He was gunned down by a fearful Syron Martin.
The killing was shown on an episode of TV documentary 'Murder Blues', which
followed cases of Operation Trident in London, see below links.
Murder Blues Documentary - R.I.P Marcus Cox Part 1.
Murder Blues Documentary - R.I.P Marcus Cox Part 2.
Murder Blues Documentary - R.I.P Marcus Cox Part 3.
Murder Blues Documentary - R.I.P Marcus Cox Part 4.
Murder Blues Documentary - R.I.P Marcus Cox Part 5.
NorthStar
NorthStar was the creation of long term TMD member Clint Ponton. It began in
2003 as a result of their links with urban music group 'So Solid Crew' through
Megaman and Lambie. After Ponton had escaped being tried for the murder of
Jason Fearon, he created NorthStar as a legitimate music front / enterprise,
following on from the days of TMD. NorthStar had links with numerous other
music crews that had been closely linked to older gangs such as Poverty Driven
Children. in Brixton. They also maintained historical links that Mark Lambie
gained with areas such as Harlesden / Kensal Green and the Ghetto Boys. in
south London.
Whilst members maintain that NorthStar is for entertainment purposes only and
sourcing local music talent, the name is the influence for 'Star Gang' (see
BWF FMD. ).
C1 / Clint Ponton - Northstar Freestyle 2005.
The hatred between Broadwater Farm and London Fields still exists to this day.
As for those involved in the war between 1997-2003, their rivalries have
continued to play out through music. Songs disrespecting one another have been
produced, including one whereby NorthStar refer to their rivals as 'Trashtown'
(a manipulation of London Fields music group 'Mash Town').
Whilst this conflict rarely erupts in violence, it is merely just dormant
rather than over. In February 2009, Clint Ponton and Wes Lambie, younger
brother to Mark Lambie, were assaulted at the Urban Music Awards, hosted at the
O2 arena. Ponton was stabbed with a champagne bottle during the attack, which
was alleged retaliation for a shooting in 2008 that targeted a younger brother
of a former Hackney Boy, Corey Wright. Often failing to stay out of the
limelight for the wrong reasons, in 2010 Ponton was at the Tottenham Carnival
where his younger brother had his chain snatched by members of the Young Dem
Africans. gang from Edmonton.
Another case involving members of the TMD in recent years was that of Gary
Guthrie who was gunned down in the street. The men arrested were all long time
members of the Tottenham Mandem and Poverty Driven Children. Jamaican Guthrie
died from a single gunshot wound to the chest on Steatham High Road in the
early hours of the morning on Monday 22nd October 2007. Poverty Driven Children
individuals Courtney Hutchinson, Nathan 'Inch' Cross and Darrell 'Bumbles'
Albert, alongside Tottenham Mandem individuals Junior 'Killa Cam' Cameron,
Michael 'Tall Mike' Wabara and Simon 'Redz' Rhodes-Butler were tried at the Old
Bailey. The victim and his friend Rowan Williams were confronted after leaving
an event at the Starlight Rooms. Although no motive has ever been established,
there is evidence that there was a shared intention on the basis that a number
of defendants were armed with loaded firearms. The victims, both Jamaican,
arrived at the club by 2am, whilst the defendants, described by witnesses as
'English boys', arrived after 4am. They were different from the Jamaican crowd,
dressing more casually and forming their own group within the club, which by
the time of their arrival was winding down.
The club closed at 5am and CCTV captured Guthrie leaving with Rowan. It showed
Hutchinson and Cole deliberately moving in front of them. A convoy of vehicles
stopped shortly after alongside Guthrie and Rowan's vehicle, and following an
argument, the pair were shot at by two men with loaded guns. Junior Cameron was
said to have fired the fatal shot with a Steyr self loading pistol whilst
Darrell Albert is said to have shot Williams using a Baikal IZH-79 9mm pistol.
The Steyr pistol was found behind a bath panel at Cameron's home in Enfield
following his arrest in January 2008.
Cameron had a long criminal history, beginning at the age of 13. He came from a
broken home, both his parents were addicted to drugs, and he lived with his
grandmother until she died when he was just seven at which point he was taken
into care. He had previous convictions for possession of firearms and knives,
burglary and robbery. In 2005 he was jailed for perverting the course of
justice after setting fire to the car that belonged to murdered Turkish drug
dealer Oguzhan Ozdemir who was shot dead after being abducted in 2001. An
officer in the trial claimed Cameron was a habitual carrier of guns who had
threatened to use a gun against the officer. Cameron denied the claim, telling
court that this particular officer, PC Jason Eatock, had a reputation for being
aggressive with young black boys in Haringey.
PC Eatock from Haringey, alongside another officer, was subject to an IPCC
investigation in 2003. for unnecessary force in Haringey. He was also one of
three officers involved in a mini-riot in Tottenham's Northumberland Park area
in 2010. that began after officers tried to arrest a teenager who had
allegedly thrown a knife onto a garage.
With regards to the Guthrie trial, all except Cameron and Albert walked free
from court after the judge ruled there was insufficient evidence against them.
Cameron was found guilty of Guthrie's murder for having harboured the weapon.
After the verdicts were announced Cameron said 'How are they sure? Why don't
someone ask how they are sure? They cannot be sure'.
Sets & Cliques
After the Hackney Boys and Tottenham Mandem 'gang-war' period died down many
gangs in London began to break down into smaller geographically based sets or
cliques. Hackney was probably the first borough to fully develop this trend,
hence the high number of gangs currently present in the borough. In Tottenham,
the new sets developed across over a dozen housing estates and council
residential blocks in N15 and N17 from 2003 onwards. Some of the more prominent
of them came to be known as:
Farm Mandem / BWF.
Ida Boys.
NPK. (Northumberland Park)
Tiverton Mandem.
Stonebridge (Ermine & Plevna) Other geographical areas of activity are Appleby
Close, Bourne & Twyford Hoses, Broad Lane, Chestnut. Grove, Culvert Road,
Edgecot Grove, Ferry Lane, Pembury Road (High Road), Reed Road, Saltram Close,
Scotland Green, Suffolk Road and White Hart Lane / Bruce Castle.
Any of the above areas today may refer to themselves as Tottenham Mandem (TMD)
- this is an appreciation of the local area and an acronym that continues to be
used by younger members collectively referring to their status as 'Tottenham
Mandem'. However, TMD does not really refer to a gang anymore. During the
course of larger gangs breaking down, former alliances with neighbouring areas
Edmonton (N9) and Wood Green are no more. The relationships between north
London gangs have become very contentious amongst the following generations of
youths, new rivalries and alliances have been built at more micro-levels that
have made the world of gangs in London very crowded. Even within Tottenham
there have been internal rivalries that flare up between the new sets and
cliques wanting to assert their dominance.
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