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38: 91: 199: 369:'. Harry tried to escape but Fahri grabbed hold of his shirt and threatened to beat him up before punching him in the chest. Police visited Fahri's home on 7 May 2003 to speak to him about the incident and gave him a harassment warning. The culmination of these events was the incident in which Jimmy was murdered. 385:
Fahri then re-entered the shop with a metal-framed advertising sign and started poking Mizen with it. Mizen held onto the sign and Fahri reached for a 12-inch (30 cm) hot glass dish from the counter and threw it at Mizen. Shattering on his chin, a one-and-a-half-inch glass shard pierced his neck
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In 2009, the Mizen family set up The Jimmy Mizen Foundation charity (now called For Jimmy) based in Lee Green. The charity works with schools across the United Kingdom where Margaret and Barry share Mizen's story and help young people to make their local communities safer so that they may feel safe
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that they were stepping away from the charity that they had founded, 'For Jimmy', and had set up a new charity called 'The Mizen Foundation'. In the statement, they explained that they and the trustees of their former charity had differences in the direction that they wanted the charity to go and
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Mizen staggered to the rear of the bakery and into a cupboard to shield himself from the possibility of Fahri returning, where his elder brother, Tommy, who was 27 at the time, found him. Mizen collapsed in his brother's arms and was so afraid of the attack that when his brother tried to open the
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5 feet 7 inches (170 cm) Fahri challenged 6 feet 4 inches (193 cm) Mizen to go outside which he refused. Not wanting to lose face after picking a fight with Mizen, Fahri went back into the shop and hit him with two plastic drink bottles. The Mizen brothers defended
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The Mizen family had had previous dealings with Jake Fahri. In 2001, he walked up to Jimmy Mizen's brother, Harry, in the street and asked for money before punching him in the stomach. Harry, who was 10 years old, handed over 20p but told his mother about the incident and she made a complaint to
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Crispin Aylett QC, prosecuting, said: "A trivial incident, brought about by the defendant's rudeness, escalated into something horrific. The defendant reached for any and every available weapon with which to attack the Mizen brothers. The whole incident lasted no more than three minutes – three
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At approximately 11:30 on the morning of 10 May 2008, a day after his sixteenth birthday, Mizen was inside the Three Cooks Bakery in Burnt Ash Hill, south London, with his brother, Harry. Jake Fahri, 19, of Lee, entered the shop and an altercation began when Jimmy stood up to threats being made
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cupboard door, he held it close thinking that it was Fahri. Their mother, Margaret, arrived soon after and fainted at the sight of her son. When she regained consciousness, she called her husband, Barry, who arrived an hour later to find that his son had died.
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Fahri handed himself into police custody three days after the attack. In police recordings of his interviews, Fahri commented: "Someone has died because of me. I didn't mean it, I didn't mean to kill him." Fahri was remanded in custody and stood trial at the
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to take the charity message out there. In 2011, Mizen's brothers, Bobby, Tommy, and Harry, his sister, Joanne, and his nephew, James, travelled to Nepal with scouts and friends to trek around the
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The jury rejected Fahri's version of events and found him guilty of murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of fourteen years.
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themselves and traded punches with Fahri before all three crashed into a glass cake display and Fahri was bundled out of the shop.
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Fahri's school. Two years later, on 1 April 2003, Fahri saw Harry in Woodyates Road, Lee, and demanded to know why he had '
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and severed vital blood vessels. According to witnesses, Fahri exited the bakery with a triumphant grin on his face.
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Pathologist Benjamin Swift told the court that Mizen died from blood loss. A glass shard had severed the
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in his memory. His youngest brother George also did this trek with a local scout group in March 2016.
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when walking home. Margaret, Barry and their eldest son, Danny, travelled to Kenya with
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and a jury. At his trial, Fahri admitted to throwing the glass dish but denied murder.
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Mizen was the sixth son and the eighth of nine children of Barry Colin Mizen,
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On 2 November 2009, Fahri was stabbed by Sean Mercer, the murderer of
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for taking part in a gang knife-point robbery of a schoolboy at
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which were both 0.4in (1 cm) below the skin near the jaw.
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Prince Charles listens to Lewisham youth at Jimmy Mizen cafe
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minutes of absolute madness on the part of this defendant."
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named the Mizen family as among Britain’s most influential
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and violence. On 19 July 2004, he was given a nine-month
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on 11 March 2009 for the murder of Jimmy Mizen before
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