Man given life sentence for schoolboy bakery murder

Teenager Jake Fahri was found guilty yesterday of murdering popular schoolboy Jimmy Mizen, who bled to death in a bakery after a glass dish was thrown at him during a trivial row. Mr Fahri, 19, was convicted of Mr Mizen's murder by an Old Bailey jury who rejected his claims of self-defence. He was given a life sentence for the murder and must serve at least 14 years, the Press Association reported.

"We have become a country of anger, of selfishness and of fear," Jimmy's father, Barry Mizen said. "It doesn't have to be like this. Let's together try and stop it."

Jimmy, who had only just turned 16, died after Mr Fahri went berserk in the south London bakery and threw an oven dish at him.

It shattered on his chin - sending a one-and-a-half-inch shard of glass into his neck, where it severed vital blood vessels.

The trial heard Mr Fahri had begun reaching for weapons and had smashed down the front doors of the bakery with an advertising hoarding before finally grabbing the glass Pyrex dish. Mr Fahri handed himself in to police three days after the altercation.

Jimmy's family applauded as the verdict was delivered on the second day of the jury's deliberations.

Outside the Old Bailey Detective Chief Inspector Cliff Lyons praised Jimmy's family for showing "tremendous dignity and grace" throughout the case. "Jimmy Mizen was an immaculate and decent young man.

"That never really came out during this trial," Chief Inspector Lyons said.

"Jimmy is an individual that I think we all would aspire to have a son like him. Jake Fahri is entirely different, he can only be described as a yob," he said.

"He is extremely violent and the jury have returned a just verdict."