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Reggae Star Murdered In London Subway
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Submitted 27-03-09 10:45
An unknown ‘stranger’ or strangers, brutally slashed the throat of 90s pop star Scoobie Santino last Saturday night and left him to die in a West London subway.
Press reports said Scoobie, real name Ian Newtion, was murdered on his way home from a free gig he’d performed at a local club, and cops ruled out a gangland attack. Speaking to reporters near the scene of the crime, his brother Cleave, 55, described the 45 year old father of one as a ‘hard-working family man’.
"He was a very kind, mild-mannered, amiable and very amenable person, whose philosophy in life was to try to see the best in everyone,” he told Sky News, “What is difficult is trying to imagine anything so violent happening to someone of Ian's personality.”
Scoobie’s career peaked commercially in 1990 when he had a top 10 chart hit with Sweetie Irie called Money Honey. His chart success came ten years after Jamaican gangster Rankin Dread enjoyed a similar one hit wonder with reggae- anthem Hey Fatty Boom Boom, though Dread went on to live a very different life.
Already notorious as a gunman with the Shower Posse gang from Rema garrison in Kingston Jamaica, Dread (aka Robert Blackwood aka Bowyark) when he had his hit, ended up running a drug dealing robbery gang in Hackney, Easy London and was eventually linked to over 30 murders in the UK, Jamaica and Canada. Still at large, he was most recently spotted in the UK in 2002, the News Of the World reported.
"I'm sure he is back- there have been possible sightings of him in Wolverhampton and Birmingham," a West Midlands police source told the paper at the time, “Someone who says they are Errol Codling (one of Rankin's many aliases) is involved in the supply of drugs,” he added.
More recently, he was named as a continuing influence over young gang members in the Midlands who have recently embraced black magic and hexes to both protect themselves, and attack rivals.
“Criminals believing in this sort of thing is nothing new. It actually stems from the folklore surrounding Yardie gangster Errol `Ranking Dread' Codling in the 80s,” Kirk Dawes, a former West Midlands police detective and gang expert told reporters last August.
"He had a number of very close scrapes with other gangsters and put it down to his belief in Ubia, a form of black magic, and a whole culture built around it from there,” he added.
http://tinyurl.com/dlhpes (‘Teen gangs in the Midlands turning to black magic . . .’)
http://tinyurl.com/c4e3sp (Scoobie Santino tribute site)
http://tinyurl.com/cjgbry (Hey Fattie Boom Boom, clip)
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