In an exclusive photo obtained by The Sun the acid fiend - who pleaded guilty to manslaughter - can be seen posing menacingly with what appears to be a sub-machine gun
THE teenage thug who killed a nurse in the UK’s first acid attack death was a member of a notorious drill gang, The Sun can reveal.
Xeneral Webster, 19, who screamed abuse at the judge as he was caged for 17 years this month, had the street name "General" as part of the notorious 12 World rap gang.
He was jailed for dousing Joanne Rand, 47, in sulphuric acid while she sitting on a park after visiting her daughter's grave.
The mum-of-three was caught in crossfire as Webster battled a rival drug dealer with a bottle of acid in his hand.
She died 11 days later from multiple organ failure after contracting septicaemia due to the burns.
Webster's gang, 12 World, from Shepherd's Bush, West London, have a long-running feud with the 1011 gang - which led to five members of the 1011 being imprisoned for plotting a knife and machete attack on Webster's gang earlier this year.
In pictures passed to The Sun Webster - who himself was attacked with acid by gang members - can be seen posing with what appears to be a sub-machine gun, known as a mac gun, and bundles of cash thought to be earned through drug dealing.
A gang source said: "General was well-known for rolling around the estates with his mac gun - that became his thing.
"He was always in trouble and even battling with older gang members of 12 World - which is how he got attacked with acid in the past.
"It's ironic that now it's become his weapon of choice and this poor woman got caught up in one of his battles."
They were arrested in Nottingham Hill en route to carry out a revenge attack on the 12 World gang.
Micah Bedeau, 19, Yonas Girma, 21, Isaac Marshall, 18, Jordan Bedeau, 17, and Rhys Herbert, 17, were jailed or detained for conspiracy to commit violent disorder.
A source close to Webster's family told The Sun they had warned him about hanging out in gangs.
They became worried that Webster, who attended a private junior school in Streatham, South London, was mixed up in gangs after his mother discovered him knocked-out cold after a fight.
The source said: "Xeneral has been stabbed multiple times. He has been attacked.
“He was laid out on the grass one day outside his mother’s home.
“Someone had hit him round the head with a baseball bat.
“He needed stitches. He couldn’t move."
The close family source also blamed drill music for Webster's life of crime.
The source said: "Drill music is a problem. These kids all think they can make their money from hits on the Internet.
“They see music and drugs as the only way to earn a living.
“They think why go and work for £200 or £300 a week when they can earn £4,000 a week.
“The attitude is ‘Ride or Die’. They see nothing to live for."
And shockingly the close family source claimed that the authorities should have clamped down on Webster harder to stop his descent into gang crime.
They added: "The courts should have been tougher on him. They kept letting him get away with what he did in the past.
“They should have given him a harsher punishment.
“When he was younger, about 13, the older boys would take advantage of him, because they knew he would not get as harsh a sentence as the older boys - so they put him up to do things.
“He was used by the older gang members.
“Ultimately, this is the path he chose to take.
“None of his family sent him out to go and throw acid in someone’s face.”
Webster's gang 12 World's music is available to stream on Apple Music and Spotify.
A Sun probe found seven tracks attributed to the gang, sparking more pressure on the music streaming platforms to stop hosting violent drill music.
Amazon also lists 14 tracks available to buy from that are attributed to 12 World or its two key rappers, and four tracks and two albums could be bought on Google Play.
Chairwoman of the Home Affairs Select Committee Yvette Cooper recently called on the music platforms to take social responsibility.
The 12 World gang's lyrics include lines glorifying stabbing and murder.
In one track called "Menaces 2 Society" the gang rap: "Leave man dead up if a car pulls stiff, Like get it, just wet it, show man what a splashing (stabbing) is, How many times have we backed it done splashed (stabbed) it, Really trying to make man swim (in a pool of blood)."
Another 12 World track Too Loose Pt.2 on the platform contains the line: "my new black blade, wanted to puncture kidneys."
A later line references an attack on a rival gang: "Two of them opps (opposition) got splashed in a day, them times we didn't know about boasting."
DRILL originated in Chicago earlier this decade, helping to make the city one of America’s most violent with 650 murders last year.
Recently, a grittier style emerged in South London that draws on grime and other genres.
Former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has promoted the genre by hosting drill videos on his YouTube channel.
Drill lyrics usually glorify violence and gang culture.
Some feuding gangs have recorded "diss tracks", insulting each other online as an incitement to tit-for-tat violence.
The music has been blamed in part for the surge in murders and maimings in London.
One grieving father said drill videos were a "rehearsal" for the murder of his son Jermaine Goupall, 15, last August in Thornton Heath, West London.
The killer was drill artist M-Trap 0, real name Junior Simpson, 17.
A judge told him: "You wrote lyrics in your phone that predicted the exact type of crime that took place."
In April another judge cited drill's "malign influence" as he jailed four thugs for the murder of Mahamed Hassan, 17, in Battersea, South West London.
Drill videos were used as evidence against Reial Phillips, known as Lynch, who was jailed for 27 years in 2016 for a series of non-fatal shootings in Birmingam.
And diss tracks posted by two rival East London gangs were at the heart of another murder trial after Rikell Rogers, known as Dubsy, murdered Marcel Addai, 17, in Hackney in 2015.
Scotland Yard has tried to prevent drill gigs and asked YouTube to take down more than 50 videos that it says promote gang violence.
A recent track featuring 12 World rapper Sav12 - and available on Apple - was published last week and contains lyrics mocking the 1011.
A comment on Sav12's Instagram account claims some of the lyrics mock Digga D [Rhys Herbert] of 1011.
A user called "j1.swrappz" said in a comment on the latest video on S12's Instagram that S1 was mocking the standard of Digga D's lyrics.
He said: "when S1 said pushing my shank (knife) and twist and things on things dats Oreo biscuits he was tryna mock Digga D".
Webster, of Westway, West London, admitted manslaughter while on trial for Joanne's murder in April.
She was treated for burns covering five per cent of her body after the vicious attack in High Wycombe, Bucks, last June.
One of the burns became infected and Joanne, of nearby Marlow, died from septicaemia and multiple organ failure 11 days after the attack.
He was also convicted of having offensive weapons in public, affray, making threats to kill and damaging property.
Judge Angela Morris told Webster he would serve 17 years in prison and three on licence.
But as he was led away from the dock at Reading crown court, he yelled: "All of you will probably be dead by the time I am out of here, f**k you bro."
Joanne's sister Jacqueline Joiner, 61, told Webster in court: "We have a lifetime sentence and any sentence you get won't compare with ours.
"Do you even feel any remorse for what you have done?"
And Joanne's daughter Katie Pitwell, 18, said: "You not only destroyed her life, but all of ours too."
They called for restrictions on the sale of acid and tougher sentences for those using it in attacks.
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