A drill rapper has been recalled to prison after breaching bail conditions by releasing rap music boasting of his murder of a schoolboy.
Jake Fahri, then 19, was jailed for life in 2009 with a minimum term of 14 years for killing schoolboy Jimmy Mizen, 16, by hurling an oven dish at him.
The glass dish shattered and severed blood vessels in the schoolboy’s neck as violence exploded in a south London bakery in May 2008.
Witnesses reported seeing Fahri swaggering from the shop with a smile as his victim lay dying.
Following his release in 2023 Fahri, now 35, recreated himself as masked drill artist TEN –with his music showcased by the BBC.
But after shocking lyrics and reports of the musician’s movements were reported by TThe Sun, a recall was initiated for Fahri on Thursday evening after Probation Service found him to have breached licence conditions.
A spokesperson for the service said: “Our thoughts are with Jimmy Mizen’s family who deserve better than to see their son’s murderer shamelessly boasting about his violent crime.
“All offenders released on licence are subject to strict conditions. As this case shows, we will recall them to prison if they break the rules.”
In one of TEN’s tracks available on Spotify and YouTube, the balaclava-clad rapper appears to reference the murder, singing: “Stuck it on a man and watched him melt like Ben and Jerry’s. Sharpen up my blade I’ve got to keep those necessary.
“Stay alert and kept it ready, any corner could be deadly. Judge took a look at me, before the trial even started he already knows he’s gonna throw the book at me.”
Another track published by TEN boasts: “See a man’s soul fly from his eyes and his breath gone.”
It adds: “I wanted more, it made it less wrong. Seeing blood spilled same floor he was left on.”
Fahri was released on licence in June 2023 and his music was played on BBC 1Xtra less than 18 months later, with DJ Theo Johnson branding him an “up-and-coming star”.
Jimmy’s father, Barry Mizen, revealed that parole statements he had been sent showed Fahri had “done all the programmes” but said “that doesn’t seem to have made a blind bit of difference”.
He said he feared prisoners may be taking rehabilitative courses just to be released earlier, without properly learning the lessons, adding: “If you’ve done 15 years in prison and nothing has changed – and it appears nothing has changed (in Fahri’s case) – then we’ve got to consider what is the point of this? Is this something that needs to be looked at again.”
The BBC said in a statement on Thursday: “This individual does not feature on any BBC playlists, we have never played – as we pointed out to the Sun – the lyrics they have printed.
“He’s had two other tracks played twice. 1Xtra has no further plans to play his music, we were not aware of his background and we in no way condone his actions.”