Man given life for schoolboy bakery murder

LONDON (Reuters) - Teenager Jake Fahri was found guilty on Friday of murdering popular schoolboy Jimmy Mizen, who bled to death in a bakery after a glass dish was thrown at him during a trivial row.

Fahri, 19, was convicted of Mizen's murder by an Old Bailey jury who rejected his claims of self-defence. He was given a life sentence for the murder and must serve at least 14 years, the Press Association reported.

"We have become a country of anger, of selfishness and of fear," Jimmy's father, Barry Mizen said.

"It doesn't have to be like this. Let's together try and stop it."

Jimmy, who had only just turned 16, died after Fahri went berserk in the south London bakery and threw an oven dish at him.

It shattered on his chin -- sending a one-and-a-half-inch shard of glass into his neck, where it severed vital blood vessels.

The trial heard Fahri had begun reaching for weapons and had smashed down the front doors of the bakery with an advertising hoarding before finally grabbing the glass Pyrex dish.

Fahri handed himself in to police three days after the altercation.

Jimmy's family applauded as the verdict was delivered on the second day of the jury's deliberations.