article_snippet.sent: Judge John Bevan QC said the ‘medieval turf war’ between the two Turkish families had now reached ‘epidemic proportions.
article_snippet.sent: Judge John Bevan QC said there had been 26 incidents in the drug war between the Tottenham Turks and the Hackney Turks since 2009, including 19 where guns were used.
article_snippet.sent: When jailing Marsh-Smith in July last year, Judge Bevan Judge Bevan condemned both sides of the Turkish gang war that has claimed five lives since 2009.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The use of the streets of this city for the Turks to fight a medieval turf war over drug distribution, in this case using Afro-Caribbean males as hitmen, is as intolerable as it is unacceptable’, Judge Bevan said.
article_snippet.sent: Today’s verdicts are the latest chapter in a ‘bloody and lethal’ feud between the ‘Tottenham Turks’ and the ‘Hackney Turks’ criminal gangs in north London that has raged since 2009.