TikTok prankster detained for posting videos without consent

May 2024 · 3 minute read
Bacari-Bronze O'Garro MizzyBacari-Bronze O'GarroMizzy was found guilty of two counts of breaching a court order prohibiting him from sharing videos of people without their consent

TikTok prankster Mizzy has been sentenced to 18 weeks' detention in a young offender institution.

The 19-year-old, whose real name is Bacari-Bronze O'Garro, was found guilty of two counts of breaching a criminal behaviour order.

The court order banned him from sharing videos of people without their approval.

He was found to have "deliberately flouted" the order "within hours" of it being passed in May.

In one video, passers-by were in the background as Mizzy said to the camera: "The UK law is a joke."

Sentencing O'Garro at Stratford Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, Judge Matthew Bone told him "put bluntly your pranks are not funny".

After his trial last month, father-of-one O'Garro was banned from using all social media.

O'Garro's claim that one of his friends, who had access to his login details, posted the Twitter videos without his consent, was dismissed by Judge Matthew Bone as "inconceivable".

PA Media Photo of Bacari-Bronze O'Garro, also known as Mizzy, leaving Stratford Magistrates' Court on 21 September 2023PA MediaThe TikTok prankster was sentenced to 18 weeks' detention in a young offender institution

In mitigation, O'Garro's lawyer Paul Lennon said he was a "young man" and had shown a "lack of maturity".

The social media user is now 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 is making attempts to better himself," he added.

Judge Bone handed the prankster an 18-week sentence for one of the offences, and 14 weeks for the other. He ruled they should run concurrently.

The judge also "strengthened" 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, as well as being ordered to pay a £154 surcharge.

'Nobody is above the law'

Speaking after the hearing, Det Ch Insp 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."

She added: "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."

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