Sign up to FREE email alerts from MyLondon - MyWestLondon News Subscribe Thank you for subscribing See our privacy notice Invalid Email

A rapper from North Kensington has avoided jail after he threw a knife behind a bush while fleeing from police.

Pippho Khalwa, who also goes by the rap name Peaky Saku, was arrested in January as part of the Met's Project Servator operation .

Officers in Ladbroke Grove spotted the local man running away from them near the Tube station on January 28. They then saw a silvery knife get thrown into a bush as Khalwa, 24, made a run for it.

Khalwa is an up and coming West London MC, who grabbed media attention and courted controversy after an interview with the BBC in the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell disaster .

Khalwa, who lives in Silchester Road in the shadow of Grenfell Tower, told the Victoria Derbyshire program that the fire and the treatment of the North Kensington community was "social cleansing" of the Kensington area.

The young rapper is reported to have received a £40,000 scholarship to study at prestigious Surrey boarding school, The Charterhouse School.

In court , he pleaded guilty to possession of the knife, which Kensington and Chelsea Police described as "nasty".

He was sentenced to 12 weeks imprisonment suspended for 12 months plus costs, unpaid work & rehabilitation activity requirement.