REMEMBER WHEN

GOLD COAST BULLETIN Saturday, April 28, 2007

POLICE appealed for the victims of a vicious schoolbased gang that stomped on victims’ heads, to come forward and make formal complaints.

”We need that so we can make real inroads into their actions, but to date we have no formal complaints so it is hard for us to act,’” said a senior police officer.

The US-style gang liked “Scrappin’, stealing and party crashing” and has a signature double foot head stomp that could kill.

They called themselves G.C. Rydhaz and members are of Maori/Kiwi origin.

Scrappin’ was an American street-fighting phenomenon.

The local gang, whose members were aged 15 to their mid-20s, adopted it as the main theme in their vicious activities.

Many members attended the same central Gold Coast high school, but older brothers were also involved in their nefarious nights out.

Gang members’ blogs on the social networking website My Space were heavy with traffic at a time they should have been at school.

Their largely illiterate ramblings showed they had all adopted American “gangsta” traits from music to dress, speech and violence.

The mood is set by their leader who lists among his ‘interests’: “f ..... g, f ..... g, f ..... g, sport fighin’, scrappin’, stealing from poof c … s and raping hot girls”.

In a blog posted on April 13 that year, the leader talked about being chased by cops and how the gang used a girl as a decoy to lure men into being “rolled” for their phones and cigarettes.