{"id":743116,"date":"2026-08-19T16:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743116\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:22:09","slug":"drill-artist-drilla-brought-revolver-to-essex-probation-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743116\/","title":{"rendered":"Drill artist Drilla brought revolver to Essex Probation meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A drug dealing drill artist has been sent back to prison after bringing a revolver to a meeting with the Probation Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex Police found the converted firearm inside a coat taken by Noble Nwokocha, 24, to offices in Laindon, near Basildon, in October 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rapper, known as Drilla, a member of north London drill group 3&#215;3, was on licence from prison having been convicted of supplying heroin and cocaine in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A judge at Southend Crown Court sent him back to jail for four years and eight months in August after he admitted holding the gun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nwokocha fronted a drill music video with lyrics glorifying firearms while on licence, detectives found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The reality that emerged through these proceedings was very different and far from glamourous,&#8221; said Det Sgt Jon Kemp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drug dealing drill artist has been sent back to prison after bringing a revolver to a meeting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-743116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}