Rapper Twista Cheese used Instagram to broadcast his defiance and non secular devotion simply hours after being sentenced to over eight years in jail for a violent petrol station assault involving a home made flamethrower in Birmingham.

The 32-year-old rapper didn’t keep quiet after a judge at Birmingham Crown Court labeled him a “dangerous offender” and handed down a lengthy sentence.

Instead, his Instagram account lit up with a collection of uncooked, profanity-laced posts that blended private accountability with non secular conviction, in keeping with BirminghamLive.

“They can take away my freedom but they can’t take break my spirit ALLAh is the greatest everything is written alhamdulilah if I’m still alive will come out stronger and better inshallah,” he wrote.

The Instagram flurry adopted an “Official Management Announcement” confirming Twista Cheese’s incarceration and hinting at a potential 2026 launch. The assertion inspired followers to maintain streaming his music.

“This is not the end – only a pause,” the publish declared. Twista Cheese’s sentencing stemmed from a disturbing January incident at Holloway Head service station.

Prosecutors mentioned he turned an aerosol can and a lighter right into a flamethrower to blast hearth at a store employee after a dispute over a gas cost and cigarettes.

Surveillance footage captured him climbing by means of the service window to proceed the assault inside, then torching a Tango Ice Blast machine earlier than heading outdoors and firing flames into the air close to the gasoline pumps.

The courtroom heard that the rapper shouted, “I’m a terrorist, I will kill you” and

“I will burn this shop and you also” earlier than launching the assault. When he later referred to as the police, he recognized himself as “Satan” and informed officers, “Allah told me to do that.”

His protection crew pointed to his long-standing psychological well being points, together with schizophrenia and PTSD linked to his previous in Somalia.

They additionally cited hashish use as an element that worsened his situation. Attorney Jasvir Mann mentioned Twista Cheese confirmed “genuine remorse” when mentally secure.

But the choose wasn’t satisfied. Recorder Sunil Khanna mentioned the Drill rapper had expressed “terrorist ideologies” and “misogynist and racist views” throughout probation interviews, and dominated that he posed a excessive threat to the general public.

On IG, Twista Cheese denied reviews and advised he was the sufferer in the entire ordeal.

“Shop keeper try rob me I payed for old white guy in the queue in the shop he try over charged me said I put petrol in the car then he gave my money back I gave him the money back he didn’t try give my cigrates and I crashed out what I done was unacceptable but f### it Allah is the greatest I’m going do my time 🕰️ come out stronger and better,” the rapper mentioned.

The sentence contains six years and 9 months in custody, plus a two-year prolonged license interval after launch to permit for shut supervision.

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