UK Rapper DigDat Sentenced to Life for Attempted Murder

Nathan Tokosi, a 26-year-old British rapper known as DigDat, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday at the Old Bailey in London after being convicted of attempted murder and firearms offenses in a drive-by shooting that severely injured a rival artist in Notting Hill, west London, on November 20, 2023.

The attack occurred in the early hours when Tokosi, from Deptford in southeast London, was one of at least two occupants in a stolen Audi that pulled up alongside Daniel Offei-Ntow's Mitsubishi Outlander. Prosecutor Kate Bex KC told the court that at least six shots were fired from the vehicle's rear passenger window, striking the 27-year-old victim, who performed as Lugavelz, in the head, mouth, and body. Offei-Ntow, who was lucky to survive the close-range assault, managed to drive a short distance before returning to his nearby flat, where officers found him in shock and severely injured on a sofa. A trail of blood led police from the scene to his location, and his vehicle was discovered riddled with bullet holes and covered in blood inside.

Armed officers responded quickly, and police dogs later recovered a latex glove and a black bag containing a firearm and three...