We want to forgive our murdered son Jimmy Mizen’s killer – he’s getting out of prison, we need to see him face-to-face
THE PARENTS of a teenager who was brutally murdered have said they will meet their son’s killers so that they can forgive him.
Jake Fahri, 32, is set to be released from prison after serving 14 years for the murder of schoolboy Jimmy Mizen.
He was jailed for life over his attack on the pupil, 16, in a South London bakery in 2008.
Last week the Parole Board announced Fahri would be released but an exact date is yet to be given.
Now Jimmy’s parents Margaret and Barry have told how they have already forgiven their son’s killer – and may meet him in the future.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain, Margaret said: “After Jimmy was killed I had to learn to live a new life and that meant forgiveness.
“If I didn’t forgive this boy I would never smile again.
“I found it very difficult last week. The verdict hit me much harder than I expected.
“I think it’d be very difficult (to meet him). It probably will never happen but we will have to wait and see what happens.”
Barry added: “It’s been a bit harder this year but we have determination that we will bring some good from what happened to our son.
“Forgiveness is something we do for ourselves. It’s a way of managing the pain.
“It would be great to try and understand what was going on in his life. Let’s get the reasons rather than the excuses.”
Jimmy, who grew up in Lee, South-East London, had gone out with one of his brothers to buy his first lottery card on his 16th birthday.
The wannabe gangster, then 19, came into the shop and started an argument, before hurling a Pyrex dish at the former altar boy which shattered.
Shards of glass were driven deep into the lad’s neck, severing an artery and his jugular vein.
Jimmy bled to death within minutes in front of his brother Harry, who was 19 at the time.
Fahri, who walked away from the scene in Lee Green smirking, was later convicted of murder and given a life term.
Fahri had previously bullied one of Jimmy’s brothers at school and later attacked him.
He attacked a girl when he was 16, kicking her and spitting in her face.
He was then expelled from his state comprehensive, Crown Woods in Eltham, after a so-called ‘happy slap’ attack.
In July 2004 he was handed a 12-month supervision order for his part in a knife point robbery.
In 2007, a charge of rape against Fahri was dropped at Camberwell Youth Court.
In 2008, he was found guilty of murder by an Old Bailey jury after a two-week trial.
In 2009 while serving out his prison sentence for murder Fahri was stabbed by Sean Mercer, the gang member who shot dead schoolboy Rhys Jones.
Mercer, 18, stabbed Fahri in the back four times with a home made knife during a fight at Moorland young offenders institution in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.