JIMMY MIZEN’S killer Jake Fahri has been granted another chance of freedom – just months after he was recalled to jail over violent drill rap videos.
Fahri – who had been rapping as balaclava-clad drill artist TEN – has won a Parole Board review which could see him released again.
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The murderer was returned to prison in January after a Sun investigation revealed him boasting about his crimes in violent songs.
Fahri – then 19 – killed Jimmy, 16, at a bakery in Lee, south-east London, in 2009.
After starting an argument, he hurled a Pyrex dish at Jimmy, severing an artery and killing him.
Fahri pleaded not guilty to murder but was convicted after a two-week trial at the Old Bailey in 2009.
The Parole Board released him on licence in June 2023 after he had served 14 years of a life sentence.
But Fahri breached the terms of his licence with the rap videos, including one featuring the tattooed thug – with his face covered – at Blackwall Point Draw Dock in London.
The area, near the O2 Arena, is in the borough of Greenwich – which Fahri was barred from entering after his release.
Fahri’s music, as TEN, was featured on BBC Radio 1Xtra after his release.
Some of his lyrics seemed to contain bloodthirsty references to the murder of schoolboy Jimmy.
They included: “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.”
The Ministry of Justice launched an urgent probe into Fahri’s music and behaviour after our revelations in January.
At the time, Jimmy’s peace campaigner mother Margaret, 72, said Fahri “needs to go back to prison and really think about his life.”
Sources said his hearing could be as early as August after he was granted the fresh review.
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But Ex Met Police Detective Peter Bleksley said yesterday: “It is ludicrous he has been considered so quickly.
“His very recent behaviour shows he’s not rehabilitated at all.
“And I find it highly unlikely there has been a sea change in his outlook and behaviour in three months that means he is fit for release.
“But that is what he will tell the Parole Board has happened.
“It is just a question of whether that organisation, which has shown it is not fit for purpose, believes it.”
A Parole Board spokesperson said: “We can confirm the parole review of Jake Fahri has been referred to the Parole Board by the Secretary of State for Justice and is following standard processes.
“Parole Board decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community.
“A panel will carefully examine a huge range of evidence, including details of the original crime, and any evidence of behaviour change, as well as explore the harm done and impact the crime has had on the victims.
“Protecting the public is our number one priority.”
Sick drill tales full of knives and lies
By Richard Moriarty
KILLER Jake Fahri’s lyrics appear to contain multiple references to his murder of Jimmy Mizen — including gruesome stabbing details.
The remorseless drill rapper, who uses the name TEN to hide his criminal identity, also says he broke a pledge to his mum that he would give up violence.
His seven released tracks, on streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple and YouTube, are full of lyrics about drugs, violence and gangs, as are as his own freestyle videos.
In the track Dispersal, he boasts about being housed in the segregation wing of high-security prisons. He raps: “Disperse me to dispersal with the lifers then.
“Swing around a blade when I promised mum I’d never touch a knife again.”
He adds: “Never understood a life ’til you took a life. Look in the mirror now you look alive. Look in the mirror, can you look inside?
“Tryna balance out the good with the crooked side.”
Horrific injury descriptions appear in the track 1Life.
He raps: “Head gone, chest gone, blades out, flesh gone.
“Over there, donny like to stare, so he got stepped on.”
He later adds: “See a man’s soul fly from his eyes and his breath gone.
“S***, I wanted more, it made it less wrong, seeing blood spilt (on) the same floor he was left on.”
On his track Juggy he also apparently admits to lying under oath at the Old Bailey.
He boasts: “I don’t talk ’cos I’m signed to the streets. Went to court, put my hand on that book, and I lied through my teeth.”
In January, Jimmy’s mum Margaret slammed drill rap for its “words of murder” after Fahri was returned to prison.
The peace campaigner criticised the violent music for glorifying crime, drugs, and gang life.
Margaret spoke at a primary school, saying: “They’re not songs. Are they? They’re words.
“The words in them, they’re actually dreadful and if it’s a way of making a living, they should be ashamed of themselves.
“We and my family will always spread the same message, and that’s one of forgiveness, peace and hope.
“And I use those words because they’re really important to me, and that’s something we’re going to continue through our charity.
“And maybe someone could do a song about forgiveness, peace and hope. It’s much better to have these good words than words of murder.”
‘HE’S NOT SHOWING REMORSE’
Turning to Fahri, she said: “I’d like him to show remorse, and for the Parole Board to look into it properly. Clearly, Jake’s not showing remorse.”
The brave campaigner, made an MBE in 2013 for her work promoting peace, also called for more regulation over drill rap’s violent lyrics.
Margaret, who still lives near the scene in Lee, south-east London, said: “I think it goes without saying anything that promotes murder, promotes knives, promotes drugs, it shouldn’t be allowed.
“That’s what Jake was doing — he was encouraging crime.
“He said he was trying to turn his life around. How can you turn your life around when you’re encouraging crime?
“Perhaps we need to meet some of these bigger drill stars and explain to them what damage it does. What if it was their child, their brother, their sister, who was murdered? How would they feel?”
Violent drill music videos have been linked to a spate of murders over the past three years.
The murder of Jimmy Mizen
Millwall fan and former altar boy Jimmy was attacked at a bakery by Fahri, then aged 19, who had gone in and started an argument.
The wannabe gangster hurled a Pyrex dish at 6ft 4in Jimmy, severing blood vessels in Jimmy’s neck, killing him.
He pleaded not guilty to murder but was convicted after a two-week trial at the Old Bailey in 2009.
Fahri was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 14 years for killing the 16-year-old.
His budding music career began after the Parole Board released him on licence in May 2023 after serving 14 years of a life sentence.
Fahri, 35, was arrested at his flat in Deptford, south-east London, in January after officials had examined a dossier of evidence handed to them by The Sun.
He faced calls to be returned to prison for breaching his licence by seeming to reference his offences in lyrics and filming a rap video inside a police-enforced exclusion zone.
Fahri will now spend at least another year in jail before being eligible for parole.
