LEE: Jimmy Mizen's father brands Jake Fahri internet group as 'silly' (From News Shopper)

LEE: Jimmy Mizen's father brands Jake Fahri internet group as 'silly'

8:30am Monday 13th July 2009 in

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THE father of a murdered teenager has dismissed a website calling for the killer’s retrial as “silly” and “pointless”.

The Justice For Jake Fahri group claims the murderer, of Milborough Crescent, Lee, was unfairly convicted of killing 16-year-old Jimmy Mizen on May 10, last year.

Following a short row with Jimmy and his brother Harry at the Three Cooks Bakery, in Lee, 19-year-old Fahri threw a glass dish at Jimmy, which smashed on his throat and severed his jugular.

But group members claim Fahri was acting in self defence and are demanding the killer’s 14-year prison sentence be quashed.

Jimmy’s father Barry Mizen says comments left on the site are “silly”.

He said: “Originally when we saw the site it was very difficult. We didn’t expect it.

“But I think people are intelligent enough and sensible enough to make up their own minds.

“For us a court trial is all about the truth and the truth came out.

“There were no witnesses to corroborate what Jake Fahri said and it was a unanimous decision by the jury.

“In law, if you intend to hurt someone as much as possible that’s murder. Jimmy was an entirely blameless young person.

“The comments from people who weren’t there is pointless. If there was any grounds for appeal it would have happened.”

The group, which has 289 members, was set up on a social networking site in March by friends and family of the murderer, including his sister Molly Mae Fahri.

Fahri's supporters, who live as far away as California and Brazil, blame his conviction on negative press coverage.

The group’s creator Tracy O'mahoney says Fahri was protecting himself from “an onslaught of violence” from the two Mizen brothers.

Writing on the site last Friday (July 10), she said: “It has been very had to watch as Jake was demonised and turnt into a monster or a thug.

“If the most this little site can do, is to show the Real Jake, strip away the labels he was given, 'thug and bully,' then maybe people can start to see, and read the story as it really was.”

However, Mr Mizen says Fahri was a very violent young man and claims comments supporting Jimmy and his family are being deleted by the group’s creator.

He said: “They’re only allowing the comments through agreeing with what they say, but people are not silly.

“If the group was private that would be different, but people should be allowed to express another point of view.”

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madras says...
9:23am Mon 13 Jul 09

court news:
19/7/04: 9 month referral order for taking part in a gang knifepoint robbery of a schoolboy at Falconwood station
- 4/1/05: 12 month supervision order for the robbery of an adult in Greenwich Park on April 13, 2004
- 13/4/06: 18 month supervision order for an unprovoked assault on a girl in the street and burglary.
- also repeatedly got into trouble for bulling other schoolchildren and attacking them in front of teachers at Crown Wood School
- One of his victims included Jimmy's brother Harry, who was in the same year but at a different school, St Thomas More in Eltham.
- In 2001 he walked up to Harry Mizen in the street and asked for money before punching him in the stomach.
- Harry handed over 20p but told his mother about the incident and she made a complaint to Fahri's school.
- Two years later on April 1, 2003, Fahri saw Harry in Woodyates Road, Lee, and demanded to know why he had 'grassed.'
- 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 May 7, 2003, to speak to him about the incident and gave him a harassment warning.
- Fahri spent most of his time away from home making rap music with his friends.
- The judge Mr Justice Calvert-Smith said: 'A trivial incident over absolutely nothing in a high street bakery ended three minutes later with the death of a blameless young man.'

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