London's gangs use GoPro cameras to provide a chilling insight into their violent lives for terrifying new TV documentary

GoPro footage filmed by London gang members for Channel 5's Gangland documentary
With two youths involved in this
documentary having been murdered since it was filmed, going behind the scenes with gangs was always going to be a challenge. So the producers decided to do a 'dead drop' of ten GoPro cameras away from CCTV coverage that a group of gang members then used to film themselves. The first footage they received was of drugs and someone loading a Smith & Wesson revolver, before producers started leaving instructions and questions for them. And the result is Channel 5's Gangland, a two-part documentary starting tonight that claims to give unprecedented access to London's most notorious young gangs. Producer Paul Blake of Maroon Productions said his first attempt at the film had to be abandoned when a gang member was serious wounded in a shooting. And Mr Blake, who had a gun pulled on him during filming, told how he decided to give them cameras because they were so reluctant to be filmed