Jimmy Mizen

The Charity has now be renamed as 'The Mizen Foundation' as of April 2020

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 minutes of absolute madness on the part of this defendant."

The charity holds a lot of events such as 'Walking For Jimmy', a walk from Richmond to Tower Bridge, which has taken place every year since 2013 having started as a way to celebrate what would have been Jimmy's 21st birthday.

The Mizen family opened their first café, The Café of Good Hope (now called Good Hope) in Hither Green in 2010, a mile away from the bakery where Jimmy Mizen was killed. The café is directed by Jimmy's older brother, Danny. All proceeds from the café go towards the For Jimmy charity.

In 2010, The Tablet named the Mizen family as among Britain’s most influential Roman Catholics. Jimmy Mizen's parents, Barry and Margaret Mizen, were both appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to young people in London.

Fahri was remanded in custody and stood trial for the murder of Jimmy Mizen at the Central Criminal Court on 11 March 2009 before Mr Justice Calvert-Smith and a jury. At his trial, Fahri admitted throwing the glass dish but denied murder.

In 2009, the Mizen family set up the charity The Jimmy Mizen Foundation, now called For Jimmy, which is based in Lee Green. The CEO of the charity is one of Jimmy's brothers, Bill. The charity works with schools all over the United Kingdom, where Margaret and Barry share Jimmy's story and help young people make their local communities safer, so they can feel safe when walking home. Margaret, Barry and their eldest son, Danny, travelled to Kenya with CAFOD, to take the charity message out there. In 2011, Jimmy's brothers, Bobby, Tommy, and Harry, his sister, Joanne, and his nephew, James, travelled to Nepal with some scouts and friends to do a trek around the Annapurna Circuit in memory of Jimmy. Jimmy's youngest brother George Mizen also did this trek with a local scout group back in March 2016.

At approximately 11:30 on the morning of Saturday, 10 May 2008, a day after his sixteenth birthday, Jimmy Mizen was inside the Three Cooks Bakery in Burnt Ash Hill, south London, with his brother, Harry. Jake Fahri, 19, of Milborough Crescent, Lee, entered the shop and an altercation began when Jimmy stood up to threats being made against him by Fahri.

Jake Fahri had a string of convictions involving robbery and violence. On 19 July 2004, he was given a nine-month referral order for taking part in a gang knife-point robbery of a schoolboy at Falconwood station in Bexley, southeast London. On 4 January 2005, he was given a 12-month supervision order for the robbery of an adult in Greenwich Park on 13 April 2004. On 13 April 2006, he was given an 18-month supervision order for an unprovoked assault on a girl in the street and burglary.

The Mizen family had previous dealings with Jake Fahri. In 2001, he walked up to Harry Mizen 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 Fahri's school. Two years later, on 1 April 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 7 May 2003, to speak to him about the incident and gave him a harassment warning. The culmination of these events led to the incident in which Jimmy Mizen was murdered.

Jimmy Mizen (9 May 1992 - 10 May 2008) was a 16-year-old schoolboy who was murdered on 10 May 2008 in Lee Green, London. A 19-year-old youth, Jake Fahri, was arrested and convicted in March 2009 of his murder.