Drill music is no more violent than The Beatles or The Rolling Stones, a court has heard during a murder trial involving rival gangs.

Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck, 19, was stabbed to death by members of a north London gang known as the NPK at the Coffee and Cream Hairdressers, prosecutors say.

His friend, 20-year-old Jason Fraser, was stabbed eight times and shot once but survived on February 22 this year during the attack in Wood Green, London.

Prosecutors claim the attackers wrote rap lyrics about the killing, publishing a music video of themselves "bragging" about their violence after the murder.

Two men and three teenagers are on trial accused of a killing described as being "reminiscent of a Hollywood film". Both victims had links to a Wood Green-based gang called WGM.

Yesterday a defence counsel told jurors at the Old Bailey that the lyrics allegedly posed by the defendants were a "red herring", and said that using them amounted to a "cosy, clean, Midsomer Murders style" treatment of the facts.

John Cooper, defending a 17-year-old who cannot be named, quoted John Lennon and Mick Jagger in an attempt to illustrate his point.

Citing the Beatles lyric from Run For Your Life, he said: "I'd rather see you dead little girl than be with another man.