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Elijah Kerr (JaJa), Nathan Cross (Inch), Michael Deans (Birdie) and Simon Maitland (Phat Si) were amongst a group of friends that grew up in and around the Angell Town estate in Brixton. Whilst they were young they looked up to the older boys on the estate who had formed a gang known as the 28s during the late 1980s with its successors being known as the Younger 28's (Y28) and Younger Younger 28's (YY28). As the boys got older and began to grow into an independent gang of their own they begun to think of themselves as the Younger 28s (or Younger Younger 28's), although they were not linked to original 28's gang despite Elijah Kerr being friends with some of their members having grown up together. Member Phat Si spent time living with his mother in Toronto Canada as a youth in a neighbourhood called ‘the Jungle’, it was here in Toronto he became a founding member of a Low Budget TV - PDC interview mid-2000's
street gang known as the Tiny Toons.

Growing up, the young men from Brixton concentrated their efforts on business robberies and drug dealing and made the headlines for their less than sophisticated steaming robberies of premises such as Abbey National and Going Places travel agents and bureaux de change. In 1995, a youth named Tanna came up with a a name for the new gang, PDC – the Peel Dem Crew, sometimes written as Pil Dem Crew. ‘Peel Dem’ is Jamaican street slang for robbing or ripping people off, he declared the gang Peel Dem because that’s exactly what they did. Drug dealers and gang members on the Peckham frontline were also amongst the targets for robberies committed by members of the PDC, Peckham being a natural rival area to Brixton. In one notable exchange between PDC and Peckham Boys, nine people were shot outside Chicago's nightclub in Peckham.

Whilst it was Tanna who come up with PDC acronym, JaJa was key in bringing his connections, including the Younger Younger 28s, together under the PDC umbrella which grew to cover Brixton, Kennington and parts of Stockwell. PDC became an infamous gang across south London, synonymous through the media with drugs, robbery and violence. Just like the 28s before them, PDC were involved in battles with the Jamaican drug gangs who operated in the area which led to a continuous cycle of robberies and violence.

Several members of the gang were imprisoned in 2003 following an undercover surveillance operation by police from a local drugs unit. In December 2002 the police mounted an undercover test purchase operation on the Angell Town estate in Brixton. Part of the operation involved covert monitoring and taking of video footage. During this operation Kojo Cole was caught on video supplying £30 worth of class A drugs to a test purchase officer. The dealers on the estate were supplying both cocaine and heroin on the stairwell of local flats. A number of other individuals were also prosecuted and sentenced as a result of the operation including Kojo’s younger brother Byron (also known as Ribz), sentenced to 21 months detention in YOI, and older brother Errol (also known as Skippy), sentenced to custody.

Nathan Cross pleaded guilty to six offences of supply and was sentenced to three years and three months whilst Elijah Kerr pleaded guilty PDC Underground Kingz Part 1 (mid-2000's)
to four offences of supply, sentenced to three years and nine months. Simon Maitland also received three years and nine months. The operation took out several key members of the Peel Dem Crew. At court it was heard that many of them had previous convictions for burglary, robbery and affray. Appeals were made by some of those convicted for the fact they did not have previous for drugs offences, whilst others including Kerr did have previous convictions for supply.

It was later reported in the local news that seven men had been charged as a result of the operation, including those aforementioned alongside Najar Kerr (also known as Naja Soze) and Michael Payne. Two years later Byron Cole was charged with the murder of Jamaican Kevon Forysthe and attempted murder of his pregnant girlfriend after a shooting at a convenience store next to the Red Cross offices in Brixton Road in February 2004. The murder was later covered in the documentary series Murder Blues, which follows Operation Trident, and eventually resulted in no-one being convicted due to lack of evidence. Within the documentary it is stated by detectives that the believed killers were from the Peckham Boys but Trident do not mention PDC during the programme.

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