The promotion of the sick, violent ‘music’ of Jimmy Mizen’s swaggering murderer is a new low even for the BBC

A new depth

THE promotion of the sick, violent “music” of Jimmy Mizen’s swaggering murderer is a new low even for the BBC.

The corporation cannot credibly claim all innocence.

Wannabe gangster Jake Fahri hides behind a balaclava.

That is just one red flag.

Then there are his lyrics, blatantly glorifying murder, knives and jail time.

One directly refers to stabbing a victim.

“See a man’s soul fly from his eyes and his breath gone”, reads one chilling line.

Another seems to refer to perjuring himself at his trial.

The BBC knows exactly how extreme all this is.

Its staff censored the worst moments of the two songs it aired on radio, then excitedly played the rest.

They know that giving this creature a national platform encourages anyone interested to seek out his even more extreme material, uncensored, online.

Fahri’s rants are not “art” worth defending.

The violence he brags of is not imaginary.

It is not merely edgy entertainment for comfortable BBC ­idiots who enjoy the “drill” music of sociopathic gangsters.

For the Mizen family it has been terrifyingly real since the day Fahri killed teenager Jimmy in 2008 and sauntered away with a grin.

As it has for all those beaten and threatened by this wretched thug since he was a child.

We wish he had never been released.

But the State decided otherwise and rehabilitation is of course then preferable, as for any ex-con.

We would not object to Fahri making an honest living.

It is repugnant, though, to watch him profit from his crimes.

Worse still to see the BBC, using our licence fees, give him a leg-up.

“I’m really liking what I’m hearing,” gushes one witless Radio 1Xtra DJ.

Fahri is able to scribble about his experiences only because he robbed the Mizens of young Jimmy all those years ago.

A murderer hoping to sell their story would be turned down by any newspaper.

How is this any different?

And how is it possible for the BBC, after all its scandals, to continue to plumb such appalling depths?

Provos U-turn

THE backlash over Labour opening the door to Gerry Adams and IRA suspects getting a fortune from taxpayers has not been lost on Keir Starmer.

We welcome his U-turn, and apparent determination to ensure compensation is not paid, even as he inexplicably repeals the Tories’ Legacy Act which prevented it.

How, though? Is he serious, or just trying to calm yet another storm?

Little more than a year ago his friend Richard Hermer was Adams’ lawyer.

The PM made him Attorney General.

Sir Keir must remember this: His priority now is not his mates in the human rights legal lobby.

It’s the British public.