Murdered teenager’s father says killer rapper has ‘no remorse’ after recall to jail
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Barry Mizen fears prisoners are coming out worse than they went in as he hit out at BBC for using tax-payer cash to promote killer’s music. The father of murdered schoolboy Jimmy Mizen believes his killer has “no remorse” after he was hauled back to prison for shamelessly boasting about the crime in his rap music.
![[Jake Fahri was jailed for life with a minimum of 14 years for the murder of the schoolboy Jimmy Mizen]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/17/10/SEI236204247.jpg)
Barry Mizen has said he fears prisoners like Jake Fahri are coming out “worse than they went in” after he was named in reports as a masked drill rapper known as TEN, whose songs include lyrics appearing to reference Jimmy’s murder in 2008. He also hit out at the BBC for playing the drill rapper’s music.
![[Barry and Margaret Mizen at the 10th anniversary memorial service for Jimmy at St George’s Cathedral, Southwark]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/17/11/2fb480bb46634d78d964a4d89bfeb0abY29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzM3MTk3NzM1-2.36419651.jpg)
Fahri, then 19, was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 14 years for killing Jimmy in a southeast London bakery by throwing an oven dish that shattered and severed blood vessels in the 16-year-old’s neck. He was released in 2023 after serving 15 years, but recalled to prison this week for breaching his licence conditions, after the violent contents of songs performed under the name TEN were exposed in reports in The Sun.
It also emerged that the masked rapper’s music has twice been showcased on the BBC’s 1Xtra platform, although not songs which featured lyrics about Jimmy. Mr Mizen, 73, told The Independent that he and his wife Margaret, 72, had “naively” believed Fahri would have felt some remorse for their son’s murder.
