🔴 Disgraced Drill Rapper Loski Jailed After M40 Knife Arrest

MOBO-nominated drill star Loski, once hailed as UK rap royalty, is back behind bars—caught with a blade during a police op into a fatal M40 crash in Buckinghamshire.

Disgraced DRILL RAPPER Jyrelle O’Connor, better known by his stage name LOSKI, has been jailed following his arrest at a hotel in Buckinghamshire, after police investigating a fatal collision on the M40 discovered him in possession of a prohibited weapon.

The 26-year-old, once a MOBO Award-Nominated artist and prominent member of the South London-based group Harlem Spartans, was apprehended in the early hours of a Saturday morning at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Beaconsfield. Officers from Thames Valley Police had been deployed as part of a live and ongoing investigation into a fatal collision near junction 2 of the M40 motorway when they encountered O’Connor.

On sighting officers, O’Connor attempted to flee and resisted arrest, but was eventually detained. Upon being searched, police found a folding pocketknife with a blade significantly exceeding the legal maximum length of 7.5 centimetres. He was subsequently charged with possession of a bladed article and resisting a constable in the execution of their duty.

He appeared before High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court the following Monday, where he entered guilty pleas to both offences. Magistrates, sitting as Justices of the Peace, sentenced him to eight months’ immediate custody. In addition to the custodial sentence, O’Connor was also recalled to prison under licence conditions following his release in 2024 for a prior firearms conviction in London the previous year.

Det Sgt Ed Crofts of the Serious Collision Investigation Unit said:

“I am pleased he is back behind bars where he belongs.

“We will never tolerate anybody carrying dangerous weapons in our community and will seek to bring to justice those that do so.”

In that earlier case, O’Connor had been convicted of possessing a loaded revolver, an offence which drew attention at the time given his public profile as a rapper whose work, critics claimed, often blurred the line between entertainment and criminal glorification.

The seriousness of the firearms charge formed the legal basis for his recall to prison, as it rendered his presence in public while armed with a knife a clear breach of the terms of his early release.

Police officers had initially attended the Beaconsfield hotel as part of an active investigation into a collision which occurred on the M40 at approximately 1.15am that same morning. The incident involved two vehicles — a black Volkswagen Golf and a blue Mercedes AMG C250. The driver of the Golf, a man in his 20s, was pronounced dead at the scene. A male passenger sustained serious injuries, although they were not considered life-threatening.

Later that day, police charged Trad Almaghrabi, 23, of Harlington Road in Uxbridge, with causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

As part of their enquiries, Thames Valley Police also arrested three further individuals on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving — a 22-year-old woman from Beaconsfield, a 21-year-old woman from Northolt in Ealing, and a 26-year-old man from Beaconsfield who also faces an allegation of driving with a proportion of a specified drug above the prescribed limit. All three have since been released on police bail pending further investigation.

Officers have described the investigation as “complex” and have urged the public not to speculate about the circumstances of the incident on social media. Support is being provided to the next of kin of the deceased.

Loski, once considered a rising figure in British drill music, rose to prominence as part of Harlem Spartans, a group frequently credited with influencing the evolution of UK drill in the late 2010s.

He released several solo projects, including his 2020 debut album Music, Trial & Trauma: A Drill Story, which received critical attention for its autobiographical content and production value. That album was followed by the EP Censored in 2021 and mixtapes including Call Me Loose, Mad Love, and See You At The Gates.

He was also nominated for a MOBO Award, a now ironic career highlight given the stark contrast between his former musical acclaim and his current legal downfall. Also taking into account that we previously reported that O’Connor had his track Ashes played by the BBC on 1Xtra days after his release from jail for carrying a loaded gun.

His conviction this week marks a continuing descent for the drill rapper, whose criminal history — notably the 2023 firearms conviction — has increasingly overshadowed his artistic career.

The decision by High Wycombe JP’s to impose an immediate custodial sentence reflects the seriousness with which the court viewed both the offence itself and O’Connor’s broader criminal record, particularly given that the knife was discovered while police were in the midst of a fatal incident investigation.

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