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Ben Kinsella: extracts from covert police recordings

Kika: The thing that they’re p****d about, yeah, that none of us was talking. None of us bust our stories. That’s why they are p****d. You feel me?

Braithwaite: For real.

Kika: They’ve got nothing really. So it’s just them f*****g snitches, blood. Someone needs to deal with these snitches in the hood blood. Serious, blood.

Alleyne: No one knows who’s snitching though man.

Kika: Huh?

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Alleyne: That’s the hardest thing about snitching, blood.

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Braithwaite: You know of me from the endz.

Kika: Course.

Braithwaite: If you mans says look, you weren’t with me and s**t man, bless.

Kika: Mmm.

Braithwaite: If man gets out and if anything happens to you man, bruv, I’m telling you now, you man. If you mans gets anything, any bird, mans got ‘em. Dis is what my aunt said to me to tell you. Man look, if you mans get like a couple of years or whatever, get me? Mans got G’s there for you man.

Kika: Course, course.

Braithwaite: There is big things there for you man. You understand that it is not a joke. If you mans say about when, you get me? Actually what I just want you man to think about, that . . . you know, who was there, like. For real.

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Braithwaite: Where’s the ting? Did you ghost that?

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Alleyne: Score’s moved that.

Kika: It’s ghost?

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Braithwaite: So, basically . . . you know of me from the area but I weren’t nowhere near, no one was there like.

Kika: Mmm.

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Alleyne: Comes down to it, no one was with no one man.

Kika: That’s how you got to keep it: no one was with no one. The way. When hey showed me that picture yesterday I said: ‘Uh? Who that’s not me don’t know him.’ You know what I saying. So, I don’t know you.