Doonside death: Police investigate rival gangs over death of teenager

A leading figure on the Sydney rap scene has condemned the alleged murder of a 16yo boy as police investigate whether he died as part of so-called postcode violence.

The 16-year-old allegedly beaten to death by teenagers as young as 13 may have been in the Doonside home for up to two days as Sydney rapper Big Kash has called for an end to postcode gutter rap gang violence across western Sydney.

Described as “Mr Handsome” by his mum, the teenager had become a drifter who spent two days at the house in Perigee Close before emergency services were called on August 4 to find him unresponsive with severe injuries to his head and chest.

Sources said he had been at the house for two days joined by those charged with his murder - four boys and one girl aged between 13 and 15.

A video circulating on social media shows the moment a group of teenagers allegedly assaulted and abused a 16-year-old boy at Doonside last week. He died on Saturday of serious head and chest injuries.

The tenant is a young mother who states on her Facebook page that she works at “Cant Be F***ed O’clock”.

“It was not me that killed him,” the tenant posted after the 16-year-old’s death at Westmead Hospital on Saturday morning following three days in a coma.

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The tenant is not among the five charged who have all been refused bail and will appear before the Children’s Court on August 13. The 15-year-old girl who is charged had been expelled from school this year.

As detectives investigate whether his death was linked to the postcode violence, Sydney rapper Big Kash took aim on social media at the postcode wars which are linked to rap music.

He said it was a culture that glorified violence.

The 16 year old victim of a brutal bashing at a house in Doonside last week, has passed away in hospital. Five teenagers aged between 13 and 15 have been charged with murder.

“This is the life that all you dumb rappers glorify to these little kids without telling them the consequences of this life ... condolences to the family, nothing but pain and misery on that side of the fence,” he posted.

A chilling video of the 16-year-old being beaten, filmed by his alleged attackers and posted on social media, shows his face swollen and red as people can be heard telling him to denounce his association to one gang - called “21” - and apologise to another called “27”.

“21 District”, also known as the “Innerwest Brotherhood”, is a coalition of gangs in Sydney suburbs with 21 postcodes including Guildford (2161), Merrylands (2160), Blacktown (2148) and Smithfield (2164).

“27 District” is made up of young people from suburbs with 27 postcodes including Mt Druitt (2770) and Doonside (2767).

The 16 year old victim of a brutal bashing at a house in Doonside last week, has passed away in hospital. Five teenagers aged between 13 and 15 have been charged with murder.

The victim’s links are evident on his YouTube page where he had posted a tribute called “Free the OneFour”, referring to the three members of the Mt Druitt drill rap group who were jailed after a brutal pub bashing in 2018.

He posed on social media showing the OneFour signal of his middle finger raised.

The OneFour gang, which follows the rap band of the same name, is made up of mainly Tongans, Samoans and other Pacific Islanders and Middle Eastern young people. They used to be District 27 but now name themselves after 2014, the year the band was formed.

A woman who went to high school with the boy’s mother at Newtown School of the Performing Arts said she had doted on her son when he was born.
“She used to call him ‘Mr Handsome’ when he was a baby … he has twin little sisters,” the woman said.

Criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro said violent street crime was on the increase.

“The young people are looking for security in numbers and a sense of belonging in their peer group,” Mr Watson-Munro said.

, A video circulating on social media shows the moment a group of teenagers allegedly assaulted and abused a 16-year-old boy at Doonside last week. He later died of serious head and chest injuries.

“And if it’s a dysfunctional peer group then it leads to trouble.”

Former NSW detective and senior lecturer at Western Sydney University Dr Mike Kennedy said a lot of the violence was to do with feelings of hopelessness.

“A high proportion of public housing, a high proportion of migrants and a high proportion of unemployment, in any city in the world that is a recipe for disaster,” Dr Kennedy said.

“The governments leave it to the police to deal with so they don’t have to accept responsibility.”