Complex UK report, Hill said: “Drill music, by its nature, is supposed to shock, but it is not a crime and you have to put proper weight on that.
What police officers, if anything, are [telling the court] is, ‘I’ve listened to it many times over, I can tell you what is being said; I can make a suggestion to what drug is being referred to.’”In January, the CPS announced that it was going to review its guidance on the use of drill lyrics as evidence against defendants in criminal trials.
The CPS claimed at the time that there have yet to be any cases where drill music has been wrongly used as evidence. Defence lawyers and academics have raised concerns about the use of lyrics in prosecuting drill artists.Last July, the CPS launched the first-ever Serious Violence, Organised Crime and Exploitation (SVOCE) unit to tackle gang-related homicides, drug-dealing and street crime.
The unit has used lyrics from drill music as evidence in cases.In a press statement issued earlier this week, the CPS have revealed that to date, five cases have used drill music lyrics as evidence.
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