OneFour, 21 District, 67: Sydney’s postcode gangs revealed

Police are investigating an alleged gang link to the fatal stabbing of a teenager at the Royal Easter Show. Here’s what you need to know about Sydney’s ‘postcode gangs’.

As police investigate the deadly stabbing at the Sydney Royal Easter Show, a major line of inquiry is whether the violence was sparked by warring street youth gangs.

Over the past five years, groups of teenagers- sometimes even younger- have engaged in feuds that often started on social media before spilling over when they come face-to-face.

These violent confrontations, which have resulted in multiple deaths and caused police to establish a specialist strike force, have been dubbed Sydney’s ‘postcode wars’.

Teenagers represent gangs named after their home suburb. They include OneFour, which hails from Mt Druitt in Sydney’s west, their rivals 21 District who stem from suburbs in the Inner West, and 67 from the Doonside area.

It is this last group which police believe may be linked to the horrific Sydney Royal Easter Show fight which claimed the life of a 17 year-old.

Here are Sydney’s postcode gangs.

ONEFOUR

Most Sydneysiders will know the name OneFour from the Mount Druitt drill group of the same name, who have worked alongside rap industry heavyweights including Harlem rapper A$AP Ferg and London rapper Stormzy.

But OneFour the rap group has since distanced itself from the gang, which was originally known as NF14 and part of the Mounty County coalition.

Members are known to use the famous “27” hand gestures representing Mount Druitt’s postcode 2770.

OneFour gang associate Mak Muon was stabbed to death in an Emu Plains park in September 2020 after his car got stuck in a ditch following a Doonside home invasion earlier that evening.

OneFour gang associate Mak Muon was killed in Emu Plains in 2020. Picture: Instagram

Two of Muon’s associates have pleaded guilty to hindering a police investigation into his death, and another three people have been charged with his actual alleged murder and remain before the courts.

OneFour has had a number of public confrontations with 21 District and 67, including a brawl at Rooty Hill train station in June 2020 and a fight in the Plumpton McDonald’s car park in December 2020.

A gang member was jailed for eight months in March 2021 following the wild Maccas brawl.

A member of OneFour was charged with affray after a brawl at a Mt Druitt pub in 2019. Picture: Supplied

21 DISTRICT

The gang 21 District, also known as the “Innerwest Brotherhood”- and formerly known as G40 and 3T- is a gang coalition mostly made up of suburbs with postcodes starting with 21, such as Guildford (2161), Merrylands (2160), Blacktown (2148) and Smithfield (2164).

Just like OneFour, the name is also used by a well-known rap group who have distanced themselves from the gang.

In August last year, 16-year-old Jason Galleghan was beaten to death in a Doonside home, with video posted on social media featuring audio telling him to denounce his association to 21 and apologise to another called “27”.

On Wednesday 4 August 2021, Jason Galleghan was found unresponsive with injuries to his head and chest at a home in Doonside.

In 2020, a 21-year-old pleaded guilty to affray and participating in a criminal group following a stoush with OneFour members at The Village Hotel in 2019.

He was given a community corrections order to be of good behaviour for two years, and has vowed to leave the gang behind.

67

Police are thought to be investigating links between the 67 gang, from the Doonside area in western Sydney, and the stabbing at the Sydney Royal Easter Show on Monday where a 17-year-old boy died.

In 2021 the NRL was forced to step in and speak to players after it was revealed some were unwittingly using gang signs after scoring tries.

KVT

Islander gang KVT has allegedly been used as “muscle” by the Alameddine organised crime network, and is thought to be a subgroup of 21 District.