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Controversial TikTok prankster Mizzy has been sentenced to 18 weeks in a Young Offenders Institution.
It comes after the 19-year-old, who once filmed himself entering a stranger’s house without permission, breached a court order banning him from posting videos featuring people without their consent.
Mizzy – whose real name is Bacari-Bronze O'Garro – uploaded footage on social media hours after the ban was imposed.
The judge at Stratford Magistrates Court in east London told him "Your pranks are not funny".
Wearing a black jacket and black trousers, O’Garro, from Dartford, did not react as his sentence was read out.
As he sentenced him, Judge Bone said O’Garro’s actions had been motivated by a desire to “receive money and designer clothes from sponsors”.
“Your further offending was motivated by your desire to be famous.
“Your actions caused innocent members of the public significant harm and distress.
“You claimed on national television the law was weak.”
The prankster had been banned from using social media at a previous hearing after being found guilty of posting videos without consent.
He was found to have “deliberately flouted” a court order prohibiting him from sharing videos of people without their consent just a few hours of it being passed.
Judge Matthew Bone slammed O’Garro for “lacking all credibility” after he denied four counts of breaching the order.
He ordered the father-of-one not to use social media “at all” except to send messages until he is sentenced next month and warned that he could go to prison for the offences he had committed.
In one video, passersby were visible in the background as Mizzy said to the camera: “The UK law is a joke.”
Other videos shared on O’Garro’s Snapchat account, which were also in breach, showed him grabbing hold of a schoolboy by his uniform and another showing him fight a man with dwarfism, which O’Garro claimed were hoax videos made with their prior agreement.
‘I think it is a loud and clear message that nobody is above the law...’
O’Garro’s claimed one of his friends, who had access to his login details, posted the Twitter videos without his consent, but this was dismissed by Judge Bone as “inconceivable”.
The judge said: “I have to say I did not accept the evidence of the defendant – it lacked all credibility.
“Within hours of the criminal behaviour order he posed (in Westfield) stating the video would be shared and it was.
“The defendant was filmed trying to shake a man’s hand from whom consent was not obtained.
“He had just appeared on national television saying the British law was weak.
“I found it to be an intentional, immediate and deliberate challenge to the criminal behaviour order.
“Dealing again with charge four, two people were roughed up on camera by the defendant – I found his behaviour was again a deliberate challenge to the criminal behaviour order.”
In mitigation, O’Garro’s lawyer Paul Lennon said he was a “young man” and had shown a “lack of maturity”.
The social media star is completing a creative media production course at a sixth form college, and started a job as a waiter in a restaurant earlier this week, Mr Lennon said.
“He is very academic and is predicted to achieve a distinction,” he added.
“He is making attempts to better himself.”
The judge handed the prankster an 18-week sentence for one of the offences, and 14 weeks for the other, but ruled they should run concurrently, as well as “strengthening” the star’s social media ban, ruling that he could not share any videos, act with others to share videos or contribute to other people’s social media accounts for two years.
He was also ordered not to trespass on private property, or enter the E12 area of London.
O’Garro was also ordered to pay a £154 surcharge.
Speaking after the hearing, DCI Yasmin Lalani of the Met Police said: “I just think it is appropriate, when you have disregard for the law, I think it is a fitting sentence and I hope that he gets some help.
“I think it is a loud and clear message that nobody is above the law and that you have got to be held accountable.
“I think the right result has come through, more for the public as well, because I think the community were upset with the lack of respect for the law of the country and the distress and harassment he was causing, it was a blatant disregard for the harassment and distress for the community.
“It is really for the age range of the very young to the elderly, members deserve to live, work, play and be safe in their own area.”
Judge Bone found O’Garro not guilty on two further counts of the same charge, ruling that the videos in question may already have been shared before the criminal behaviour order was passed.