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A man who killed the schoolboy Jimmy Mizen has been recalled to prison following reports he is a drill rapper being promoted by the BBC.
It has emerged that Jake Fahri, now 35, is masked drill artist TEN – who was showcased on BBC 1Xtra – and reportedly published rap music about murdering 16-year-old Jimmy Mizen.
The 35-year-old served 14 years in prison after he was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 14 years in 2009 for the boy’s murder.
Fahri, then 19, threw an oven dish at Jimmy, which shattered and severed blood vessels in the teenager’s neck, at a south London bakery on 10 May the previous year. Witnesses reported seeing Fahri swaggering from the shop with a smile.
Recall was initiated for Fahri on Thursday after he was found to have breached his licence conditions, the Probation Service confirmed on Friday.
The move comes after the Sun reported Fahri is really TEN and that one of the balaclava-clad rapper’s tracks, available on Spotify and YouTube, appears to reference Jimmy’s death.
TEN’s lyrics included the lines: “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 says: “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, the Sun reported, adding that DJ Theo Johnson named him an “up-and-coming star”.
After the news broke about the content of TEN’s lyrics, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer voiced concern about the “the significant additional stress that this will have caused to the family”, his official spokesman said.
Jimmy’s father, Barry Mizen, said parole statements said Fahri had “done all the programmes” but that “doesn’t seem to have made a blind bit of difference”.
“I think it does strike quite a few questions about the whole (prison) system – what’s the point, you know?”
Mr Mizen added: “I think there’s some questions there certainly for the parole board.
“We hope they’ve made the right decision, only time will tell, and perhaps they haven’t made the right decision.”
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