A teenager who put up a video on TikTok of him entering a private home in London without permission as a “prank” has been found in breach of a community protection notice.
Bacari-Bronze O’Garro, 18, appeared in custody at Thames Magistrates’ Court in London on Wednesday after being charged with failing to comply with a community protection notice.
Judge Charlotte Crangle issued O’Garro—who is better known as Mizzy—with a two-year criminal behaviour order, fined him £200, and ordered him to pay a victim surcharge of £80 and court costs of £85.
The criminal behaviour order includes clauses that O’Garro must not directly or indirectly post videos on social media without the documented consent of the people featured in the content, must not trespass into private property, and must not go into the Westfield shopping centre in Stratford.
O’Garro—who was arrested after an investigation into social media footage—admitted one count of failing to comply with a community protection notice.
O’Garro later appeared on TalkTV and was asked by presenter Piers Morgan why he was “terrorising” innocent members of the public.
O’Garro replied: “I wouldn’t call it terrorising, I would more call it having fun. But let me get this out of the way first, I apologise. You see this situation that blew up on the internet, like walking into random houses, the next day I apologised because I felt bad.”
The interview ended with Morgan calling O’Garro a “complete moron.”
They are designed to stop people from committing anti-social behaviour which “spoils the community’s quality of life” and can be used against anyone over the age of 16 or against companies and organisations.
Before a CPN can be issued, the individual has to be given a written warning they will get one “unless their conduct changes and ceases to have a detrimental effect on the community.”
Varinder Hayre, prosecuting, told the court O’Garro was issued with a community protection notice on May 11, 2022, and breached it on May 15 this year when he took the offending TikTok video.
Caused ‘A Lot of Distress’
Hayre said: “He has caused the family a lot of distress. The faces of the couple and their two young children can be seen.”She told the court the mother was under the impression O’Garro was attempting burglary and she said she was a woman who took her privacy “very seriously.”
“This has caused the victim great concern,” said Hayre.
TikTok, an app owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, was launched globally in 2018 but owes its exponential growth to the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns, which caused a lot of people to have extra time on their hands after being laid off from work and not allowed to go outside to visits shops, bars, or cinemas.
The app has been downloaded by almost two billion people globally and has 3.7 million active users in the UK. It is especially popular with teenagers and 26 percent of its users in the UK are aged 18–24.
OSHU garnered fame by videoing students as he approached them in the street and asked them what song they were listening to on their headphones.
Robinson told Varsity: “I am very sorry to hear that these allegations have been raised against the content I put out ... I take all criticism seriously and will (as I have always done) strive to ensure that anything that could be deemed as misconduct is addressed.”
In March, the UK became the latest country to ban TikTok on government devices, following similar moves by Belgium, the European Union, Canada, and the United States.
This followed an official review which concluded that, because ByteDance is close to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), “it is clear that there could be a risk around how sensitive government data is accessed and used by certain platforms.”
