Telegraph
March 6, 2014
A rioter who is accused of murdering Pc Keith Blakelock during the Broadwater Farm riots wrote a “rap poem” describing how he “chopped him all over”, a court heard on Tuesday.
The chilling rap lyrics were discovered in Nicky Jacobs’ prison cell in 1988 when he was serving a jail term for affray during the riots three years earlier in Tottenham, north London.
The lyrics said the police officer started to “scream and holla” as he was surrounded by the mob, prompting “pure laughter” from the rioters. Pc Blakelock then started to “beg for mercy”, they said.
Written in gangster-style slang, the lyrics then graphically described how Pc Blakelock was “chopped” all over his body with weapons.
The Old Bailey trial also heard how Jacobs was arrested in May 2000 and told a police officer: “F*** off, I was one of them who killed Pc Blakelock.”
Jurors heard the rap lyrics, written in slang, said: “Pc Blakelock him never smell the danger and when we fly down upon him he start scream and holla everybody gather round and av pure laughter he try to head out but we trip him over and he start to beg for mercy but it didn’t matter him try to play super man…
“And him ger capture him have to face the consequences we back out we chopper we start chop him on his hand we chop him on him finger we chop him on him leg we chop him on his shoulder him head him chest him neck we chop him all over when we done we kill him off lord er feel much better…”
The lyrics later described that the author “just wipe off me knife” before going to have dinner with his girlfriend.
Richard Whittam QC, prosecuting, said the lyrics were in Jacobs’ handwriting.
The defendant, who denies murder, was aged 16 at the time of the riot which erupted at a time of intense racial tension between Tottenham’s black community and the police following the death of Cynthia Jarrett, a black woman, during a police raid of her home the previous day.
Mr Whittam also told the court that a witness who lived on Broadwater Farm, and who will be identified only by the initial ‘Q’ to protect his identity, had described seeing Pc Blakelock “butchered” by a mob.
“People were tooled up with machetes, knives and iron bars,” said Q’s statement.
“He was surrounded being butchered in seconds. It was savage.
“Out of the people attacking Pc Blakelock I knew one of them was Nicky Jacobs. I have known him all his life.”
Q’s statement said Jacobs was armed with a “mini sword or … a machete type thing”. He added that he was “100 per cent sure” he saw Jacobs, and that he made “repeated stabbing motions” to Pc Blakelock’s body, at least five or six times.