Twista Cheese unleashed chaos with a makeshift flamethrower inside a Birmingham fuel station after threatening an worker and claiming to be a terrorist, resulting in an almost seven-year jail sentence handed down this week.

The 32-year-old drill rapper, born Omar Abdirizak, pleaded responsible to theft and arson after a disturbing January 12 incident at Holloway Head Service Station.

The courtroom heard that Twista Cheese turned enraged over a cigarette fee coverage and a gasoline cost dispute, then escalated the state of affairs in a terrifying method.

Prosecutor Manizja Latifi instructed Birmingham Crown Court the rapper shouted: “I’m a terrorist, I will kill you.”

According to surveillance footage, he usual a flamethrower from an aerosol can and a lighter, then directed the flames on the retailer clerk earlier than climbing by means of the service window into the employees space.

The worker, cornered and visibly shaken, ultimately handed over cigarettes to finish the assault.

“I will burn this shop and you also,” Twista Cheese warned, in accordance with Latifi.

After torching the Tango Ice Blast machine and a flooring mat, he walked outdoors to the forecourt and continued setting fires earlier than briefly returning to reignite the machine. Officers arrived roughly 10 minutes later to search out the shopkeeper “visibly shaking and frightened.” The whole harm neared $9,000.

Later that day, Twista Cheese known as the police himself, figuring out as “Satan” and telling officers, “Allah told me to do that.”

This wasn’t his first brush with the regulation. Two months after the fuel station assault, he was sentenced to twenty weeks in jail for a TikTok video geared toward far-right determine Tommy Robinson.

In the August 2024 clip, which amassed greater than 2 million views, the rapper mimicked gunfire with hand gestures whereas shouting “pow, pow, pow” and referencing “Muslims in every corner” and “artillery.”

During that trial, he instructed the courtroom: “I am saying, if you come – self-defence. Even when I say ‘bam, bam, bam’, this is all entertainment.” But District Judge Wain dominated the video’s “natural meaning” was a risk involving firearms, not a musical efficiency.

Defense legal professional Jasvir Mann stated Twista Cheese suffers from PTSD linked to his previous in Somalia, together with schizophrenia. Mann additionally stated hashish worsened his psychological well being and that his actions have been “impulsive and stupid.”

“There is genuine remorse,” Mann instructed the courtroom. “He is able to express that now in a sensible state of mind, which plainly he wasn’t in on the day in question.”

Recorder Sunil Khanna known as the flamethrower “just as terrifying and could cause just as much harm as a blade or a firearm.” He additionally famous the rapper had expressed “terrorist ideologies” together with “misogynist and racist views” throughout interviews with probation officers.

Khanna labeled Twista Cheese a “dangerous offender” and warned of the “risk of catastrophic consequences to other people by those flames in the forecourt.”

The courtroom sentenced him to 6 years and 9 months in jail with a further two-year license interval on Tuesday.

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