Founded 1970s | Years active 1970s to present | |
Founding location Tottenham, north London Territory Tottenham and South Tottenham, in north London Ethnicity Links to Jamaican Yardies Criminal activities Drug trafficking, weapon trafficking, armed robbery, kidnapping and contract killing | ||
The Tottenham Mandem (also Tottenham Man Dem or TMD) are an organized street gang based in Tottenham, north London, that began on the Broadwater Farm estate prior to the Broadwater Farm riot in 1985. One of the early members and later leader Mark Lambie was a suspect in the murder of PC Keith Blakelock during that riot. Lambie had been top of Operation Trident's wanted list due to the close links he had built with gangs in Wembley, Harlesden and south London. He was jailed in 2002.
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Operations
In January 2014, it was reported that the Metropolitan Police had set up Operation Dibri to tackle the TMD. The operation, live since November 2008, saw police "conducting a confidential covert proactive operation" in a bid to arrest the most senior members of a gang whose "line of business" involved the supply of class A drugs, firearms, kidnapping, blackmail and GBH. In 2011, the TMD ranked second on the Met’s organised Crime Network matrix, making them the second most harmful gang in the capital. "TMD members and their associates are regularly attending nightclubs and parties in the London area and when doing so have firearms either on their person or nearby with their associates," a police report from 25 July 2011, said.
Rivalries
In June 2009, NPK gang members were imprisoned for the murder of Gary Guthrie and ongoing violence between the NPK set and rivals Shankstarz from neighbouring Edmonton in 2009.
Mark Duggan
In August 2011, Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old Tottenham resident, was shot and killed by the Metropolitan Police in Tottenham, north London. Officers were attempting to arrest Duggan, who was suspected to be carrying a gun was shot dead on the street. The circumstances of Duggan's killing resulted in public protests in Tottenham that were widely seen as the proximate cause of the 2011 England riots.
It was suggested in the aftermath of Duggan's death that "he started the Star Gang, a spin-off from the infamous Tottenham Mandem gang believed to have been involved in the weekend's disturbances."