First video: The mysterious gang attacking Londoners' homes with red paint

London Centric has obtained the first videos of a hammer-wielding gang targeting Londoners’ homes with red paint, motor oil, and graffiti claiming properties are “brothels”.

One video, in which the gang can be heard speaking Mandarin with accents associated with northern China, shows a violent attack on a property in Acton earlier this month in which a hammer was used to smash windows. A second video shows a near-identical attack on a property in Ealing in January.

The nine properties identified by London Centric as having been targeted in 14 separate attacks since late 2023.

There is growing concern that an organised crime gang is carrying out a large-scale campaign of intimidation across the capital which is impacting innocent Londoners who live next to the targeted properties. London Centric can now reveal that a leading criminology expert believes the attacks may have roots in Chinese organised crime.

Many of the individuals affected claimed the Metropolitan police had failed to act on the cases when they were first reported, which until recently appear to have been treated as isolated local incidents. We have now pieced together at least 14 similar targeted attacks across the capital over the last eighteen months.

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