Jimmy Mizen’s heartbroken mum makes desperate plea to youngsters at primary school

Margaret Mizen slammed the convulsive euphony glorifying crime, drugs and pack beingness aft her son's killer, Jake Fahri, released a opus which made circumstantial references to the murder

A grief-stricken mum begged children astatine a superior schoolhouse yesterday to clasp "forgiveness, bid and hope" - alternatively than "words of murder " - pursuing her son's brutal killing.

Margaret Mizen, 72, blasted drill rap for glorifying crime, drugs and pack beingness arsenic Jake Fahri released a opus which made circumstantial references to the execution of Jimmy Mizen. Hours aft Fahri, besides known arsenic TEN, was recalled to situation for breaching his licence conditions, Ms Mizen called for much regularisation implicit drill rap’s convulsive lyrics.

Speaking astatine a superior schoolhouse connected Friday, she told children: "They’re not songs. Are they? They’re words. The words successful them, they’re really dreadful and if it’s a mode of making a living, they should beryllium ashamed of themselves.

"We and my household volition ever dispersed the aforesaid message, and that’s 1 of forgiveness, bid and hope. I usage those words due to the fact that they’re truly important to me, and that’s thing we’re going to proceed done our charity. Maybe idiosyncratic could bash a opus astir forgiveness, bid and hope. It’s overmuch amended to person these bully words than words of murder."

Fahri was jailed for beingness with a minimum word of 14 years for the execution of Jimmy but helium was released connected licence successful June 2023. His euphony was played connected BBC 1Xtra recently, it was reported this week.

Margaret, present a bid campaigner who was made an MBE successful 2013, said: "I’d similar him to amusement remorse, and for the Parole Board to look into it properly. Clearly, Jake’s not showing remorse.

"I deliberation it goes without saying thing that promotes murder, promotes knives, promotes drugs, it shouldn’t beryllium allowed. That’s what Jake was doing — helium was encouraging crime."

Fahri was 19 erstwhile helium killed Jimmy by throwing an oven crockery astatine him successful a southbound London bakery connected May 10, 2008. The solid crockery shattered and severed humor vessels successful 16-year-old Jimmy's cervix but witnesses reported seeing Fahri swaggering from the store with a smile.

Since then, drill euphony has gained successful popularity and, betwixt 2022 and 2023 the Met Police had 315 drill euphony videos removed from YouTube implicit fears of their convulsive contented — up from 133 taken down the erstwhile year. The Sun reports specified convulsive drill euphony videos person been linked to a spate of murders successful the past 3 years.

Jimmy's dada Barry, who lives with Margaret successful Lee, Southeast London, told the publication : "To us, there’s a connection that we deliberation is the close message, and that’s forgiveness, bid and hope. Clearly, this is an contented successful society. It’s a regular occurrence. I deliberation it’s rather scandalous — tin thing beryllium done?

"There’s a work connected each of us, of everybody who wants to spot an betterment passim our communities, to effort and marque that happen. That’s what drives us, and we surely won’t halt doing it."