[12] In 2011, Peckham Boys rapper Stigs was given the first ever gang injunction, banning him from making any music that may encourage violence.
[14] Nigel Cawthorne's "The World's Most Evil Gangsters" suggests Peckham's rivalries with its neighbours in Lewisham and Brixton date back to the 1950s, where local school boys would clash regularly.
Brixton suffered much damage during the Blitz, leading to an exodus of affluent people, leaving behind unoccupied housing.
[10][16] On 27 November 2000, two members of the Young Peckham Boys, 13-year-old Ricky Gavin Preddie and his 12-year-old brother Danny Charles Preddie, murdered 10-year-old Damilola Taylor by stabbing him with a broken glass beer bottle during an attempted robbery on the stairs of a tower block in the North Peckham Estate.
[18] By the mid-2000s, the names of the various subsets had begun to change again and be replaced by SN1 (Spare No-1, formerly Peckham Boys, who were now the older generation), PYG (Pecknarm Young Gunners, formerly YYPB), SI (Shoot Instant, formerly YPB), OPB (Original Peckham Boys), DFA (Don't Fuck Around or Drugz Fundz Armz), CBM (Crane Block Massive), YBM (Yellow Brick Massive), PK (Pecknarm Killaz), and the Lettsom G'z (L.G).
[22] Linton Ambursley from Lewisham, a Ghetto Boys member, was jailed for 12 years after admitting wounding with intent.
[27] In September 2007, a leader of the Peckham Boys named Marlon Granderson (who's street name was 'Raver') was jailed after being found in possession of a MAC-10 submachine gun, three Makarov handguns, two silencers, 379 rounds of ammunition, 60 thousand fake ecstasy pills, 10 ounces of cannabis and thousands of pounds' worth of cocaine.
[28] Grandison had tried to escape conviction by claiming the items actually belonged to his friend Anthony Williams, who was stabbed to death the year before outside a kebab shop.
The gang are believed to have used knives, machetes, crowbars, guns and heavy screwdrivers to ensure that their operations were successful.
[14][16] In August 2010, the Metropolitan Police announced that they had convicted several members of the Shoot Instant Gang (an offshoot of the Peckham Boys), on charges of dealing class A drugs.
[38] In December 2010, seventeen-year-old Sylvester Akapalara was shot dead in a tower block called Heron House on the Pelican Estate in Peckham.
[43] Ola Apena, linked to the 'Shoot Instant' branch of the Peckham Boys,[44] arranged the execution-style murder and burning of teenager Samuel Ogunro in 2010, to prevent him from snitching.
In February 2012, three members of the Peckham Boys received life imprisonment for the murder of 18-year-old Daniel Graham in East Dulwich.
The victim was stabbed 24 times by the GMG set of the gang, on a main road in full view of passengers on a 176 bus and passing traffic.
[35] In February 2012, a member of the SN1 set of the Peckham Boys was jailed for eight years, for causing over £1 million worth of damage during the 2011 London riots.