Dizzee Rascal’s ex-girlfriend “assaulted him with a cell phone”, a courtroom heard
Grime star Dizzee Rascal informed a courtroom he didn’t assault his ex-girlfriend and that she attacked him with a cell phone.
The musician, 38, whose actual identify is Dylan Mills, gave proof at Inside London Crown Court docket throughout an enchantment in opposition to his conviction for assaulting Cassandra Jones on June 8, 2021.
He denied being offended when he arrived at her south London residence, breaking in, banging his head in opposition to the fridge, pushing his head in opposition to hers and transferring her round or dragging her throughout the ground.
Mills, who had two youngsters with Ms Jones earlier than they break up in February 2021, informed the courtroom she was “hostile” in direction of him when he lastly arrived at her residence.
Voices had been raised as a row over cash broke out between the musician, who is understood for chart-topping singles Bonkers and Dance Wiv Me, his ex-fiancée and her mom Daybreak Kirk.
He stated he went into the kitchen and requested Ms Kirk “why she let Cassie use my youngsters as a weapon in opposition to me”.
Mills stated of Ms Jones that “she was shouting at me” earlier than including “we had been all shouting, it was very loud”.
He stated: “She hit me. She hit me a number of occasions and he or she scratched me. She hit me on the cellphone.”
He added: “I took it off her. She hit me and hit me once more.”
He described himself as “calm and relaxed” when police arrived however the courtroom heard he informed them “I am the aggressor”.
Requested by his protection lawyer Sallie Bennett-Jenkins KC why he made that remark, Mills replied: “I used to be simply making mild and making enjoyable.”
She requested him: “Did you ever whereas on the premises, did you do something to bodily assault Cassie?”
Mills replied: “I did not”.
At one level throughout the row that night time Mills took the cell phones belonging to Ms Jones and her mom away from them.
Prosecutor Helena Duong urged to Mills that the “actual cause” behind this was he wished to stop any makes an attempt by them to name the police for assist.
Mills replied: “No, I took it as a result of she already beat me.”
In a ready assertion given to police after Mills was arrested in reference to the alleged assault, he stated he was left with scratches to his left arm from the assault which was documented by a nurse, the courtroom heard.
Mills stated he had a “good day” together with his household within the hours earlier than the alleged assault.
He stated he was not in a “dangerous temper” when he arrived on the home, however discovered it “annoying” that Ms Jones persistently contacted him about why he was late arriving on the home.
The courtroom beforehand heard that Ms Jones stated Mills decreased her “gratuity” from £2,000 to £1,800 when she was “badly behaving”.
She denied that the background to the row on the day of the alleged assault was about cash.
On Friday, Mills stated he had all the time offered financially for Ms Jones and his youngsters and he had not used his wealth as a option to management her.
He informed the courtroom: “I do not assume that is truthful. I do not perceive. I paid all of the payments and when she obtained one thing for the youngsters, she billed me.”
Mills added: “I do not see why I would want to test on her.”
His former girlfriend Tanya Chehrehnegary informed the courtroom that Mills was “very attentive, caring, well mannered, beneficiant, affected person and sort”.
She stated he was “not confrontational and our arguments all the time led to laughter”.
In closing arguments, Ms Duong informed the courtroom Ms Jones was “constant about issues which are memorable occasions”, together with Mills “banging his head in opposition to the fridge and banging his head in opposition to hers”.
She added that the courtroom might contemplate whether or not any discrepancies in Ms Jones’ recollections of the alleged assault are the phrases of “somebody who’s mendacity about what occurred” or whether or not she “remembers one thing from a troublesome chaotic scene when her youngsters are current”.
Ms. Duong added that “simply because there could also be discrepancies within the telling of that story doesn’t imply it’s not true” and “on this case there may be credible, dependable and supportive proof that this courtroom can depend on to reject the enchantment”.
Ms Bennett-Jenkins stated this case was “riddled with inconsistencies and false statements” by Ms Jones, who she described as “upset, offended and financially motivated”.
In April 2022, Mills was given a group order, together with a 24-week curfew and a 12-month jail sentence banning him from contacting his former accomplice, in addition to being ordered to pay £2,190 in prices and a £95 surcharge.
Mills, who launched his debut album, Boy In Da Nook, in 2003, was made an MBE for providers to music within the Queen’s Birthday Honors in 2020.
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