It was a dark, freezing February night this year when police officers stopped a black Ford Focus on the Forest Hill Road, near Peckham, south London. Inside were three occupants. A search revealed a loaded semi-automatic Browning gun with a bullet in the breach, the safety off and six rounds in the magazine. In the front passenger seat was the UK gangsta rapper Giggs, or Hollowman, whose real name is Nathaniel Thompson.

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