Drill rapper posted clips bragging about murdering teen while behind bars

The mother of a murdered teenager has urged TikTok to ban her son’s killer from the platform after he posted a rap song bragging about the killing on the platform while behind bars.

Jake Fahri was given a life sentence in 2008 for killing 16-year-old Jimmy Mizen at a bakery in south-east London.

He was released on license in June 2023 after serving 13 years of his 15-year sentence, but was recalled to prison last month for breaching his license conditions. 

But since his return to jail, Fahri has remained active on social media and has posted at least six times on various platforms in an attempt to build himself a music career.

One clip uploaded by pals shows him rapping in a luxury car, while another appears to have been filmed behind bars.

Both clips see Fahri, 35, reference the killing, with lyrics such as ‘stuck it on a man and watched him melt like Ben and Jerry’s’.

In another clip, he raps: ‘Never been afraid to die, he said the same, they called his bluff.’

Fahri also uploaded footage of himself defending YouTuber Yung Filly, aka Andres Barrientos, who is currently on trial in Australia facing rape charges.

Jimmy’s mother, anti-violence campaigner Margaret Mirzen, told the Sun: ‘It feels a bit like he and his friends are taunting us with this.’

The furore comes after it was revealed BBC 1xtra had previously played and promoted some of Fahri’s music, released under the alias TEN.

Fahri was lauded by DJ Theo Johnson on-air as someone who ‘really stands out’.

Reacting to the decision to play Fahri’s songs, Mrs Mizen said: ‘I have to say I’m a bit disappointed with the BBC for playing any of his music on the radio station.

‘I’ll be wanting answers about that as well because I think it doesn’t matter if it wasn’t the two songs that are the worst.

‘It’s the fact they played some. You know, when you’re playing the songs of a murderer. It’s pretty bad isn’t it?’

She has since called for the rapper’s social media presence to be wiped for good.

Jimmy Mizen was killed after Fahri threw a glass oven dish at him in a bakery in south-east London, which shattered and severed the blood vessels in his neck.

Responding to their decision to play his music, the BBC said: ‘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.’

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