YouTube has deleted more than 30 UK drill videos from its platform that police claim incite violence.

According to figures obtained by Press Association, Scotland Yard has asked the video-sharing site to remove between 50 and 60 music videos in the last two years. Of these, around 30 have been taken down.

A recent report in The Sunday Times attempted to link a series of violent crimes in London to gang rivalries supposedly catalysed by the “ultra violent new form of music sweeping Britain”.