Kidnapper freed early from jail ridicules Starmer in rap

A gang member freed from prison under Labour's early release scheme has mocked Sir Keir Starmer in a rap song released on Christmas Day.

- ARCHIE MITCHELL

Drill rapper Isaac Donkoh, also known as Young Dizz, was let out of prison in October having been jailed in April 2019 for kidnapping and torturing a 16-year-old boy.

The release date was two weeks before his scheduled release date of 4 November, around halfway through his 12-and-a-half-year sentence.

Taking aim at the prime minister on the airwaves in a song titled "Plugged In", the rapper said: "Now that I'm back, I'm raising the crime rate. Keir Starmer let me out now he wants me back, got me scratching my head like, make up your mind, mate."

Donkoh was scheduled for automatic release in November, having served more than half of his sentence for kidnapping and false imprisonment. But he was still serving consecutive sentences for GBH (three years) and perverting the course of justice (six months).