THE 19-year-old man who killed schoolboy Jimmy Mizen with a glass dish has been convicted of murder.

Jake Fahri was today found guilty by an Old Bailey jury after a two-week trial.

The killer, who has a history of violence, was given a life sentence and told he will serve a minimum of 14 years in prison, prompting cheers from Jimmy's friends and family in the public gallery.

Fahri shouted out to his mum in the gallery "don’t worry, I love you", and she shouted back "be strong, Jake".

Fahri murdered 16-year-old Jimmy following a row at the Three Cooks Bakery in Burnt Ash Hill, Lee, on May 10 last year.

Witnesses described Fahri "going mad" before hurling a glass dish full of sausages at the schoolboy, hitting him in the neck and severing his jugular and carotid artery, causing the youngster to bleed to death.

Jimmy, of Dallinger Road, Lee, celebrated his 16th birthday only the day before, and had just bought his first lottery ticket from a nearby newsagent.

He and his older brother Harry, now 19, had then gone to the bakery where they queued behind Fahri to buy a sausage roll When trying to leave the shop, Fahri, of Milborough Crescent, Lee, barged into 6ft 2ins tall Jimmy who then refused to move out of his way.

Fahri took offence at being asked to say “please” and began hurling abuse at the two brothers while jabbing his car key towards Harry's face saying "ok - you two outside".

The Mizen brothers stayed inside the shop while Fahri went outside, goading the pair to join him for a street fight.

But when Fahri saw Harry making a phone call to his older brother Tommy, he ran back into the shop shouting and swearing.

He lashed out at the brothers' heads with plastic drinks bottles and it was this attack which finally triggered the pair to fight back - charging at Fahri and sending him crashing through a glass cabinet.

The pair were seen by four eyewitnesses giving Fahri a "pummelling" with a barrage of punches to the upper body before bundling him back out of the shop and closing the door.

Fahri then picked up an advertising board and re-entered the bakery by kicking-in the glass door.

He lunged at Jimmy with the sign before picking up a glass dish full of sausages and hurling it at the altar boy.

News Shopper: The scene of the killing at the Three Cooks bakery

The oven dish smashed on impact. Jimmy staggered into a cupboard to protect himself from further attack with blood pouring from his neck.

Tommy, now 27, arrived at the scene just seconds later to find his younger brother covered in blood and clutching his neck.

Jimmy then fell into Tommy’s arms and died minutes later.

The brothers' mother Margaret, who had been alerted to the incident, ran into the bakery moments afterwards and fainted when she saw her son lying in a pool of blood.

Fahri, who pleaded not guilty to murder, ran out of the shop and was described by one eyewitness as "walking with a swagger" while another said "he had a big grin on his face".

Three days after the killing he booked himself into a hotel room under the name Jack Walker where he said goodbye to his girlfriend before turning himself into police.

Fahri always claimed he acted in self-defence and that he never intended to cause Jimmy such serious harm.

Speaking during the trial, he said he felt "threatened" by the Mizen brothers.

But it also emerged that he was no stranger to threatening and violent behaviour and that he had previously assaulted Harry Mizen.

Harry claimed he was punched in the stomach by the defendant in 2001 after refusing to give him money.

Two years later Fahri approached the Harry Mizen and said "you grassed on me to your mum", before punching him and kicking him in the legs as he fled to a nearby shop.

Jurors also listened to prosecutor Crispin Aylett describe an incident in November 2005 where Fahri spat and slapped a young girl in a row over money.

Sentencing Fahri, Judge David Calvert-Smith said: "You had two clear opportunities to reflect on what was a situation getting dangerous and out of hand.

"But you chose to go back into the bakery shop determined to cause very serious injury if you could to Jimmy Mizen who you felt had disrespected you.

"In fact tragically you carried out your intentions so successfully you killed him and deprived a loving family of a son and a brother."

"You have made it clear that you find it very difficult to control your temper."