A courtroom has heard Dizzee Rascal’s ex-fiancee stated she left the chart-topping rapper due to ‘home abuse’, as his trial for assault started on Friday.
Dizzee – actual identify Dylan Mills – appeared in Wimbledon Magistrates’ Courtroom on Friday, because the grime artist denies assaulting Cassandra Jones at a residential property in Streatham on June 8 final 12 months.
The grime artist, was seen heading to courtroom earlier right now, in a swimsuit and tie, after denying assaulting Cassandra Jones at a residential property in Streatham, south London, on June 8 final 12 months as they argued about their kids following their break-up.
The 37-year-old behind chart-topping singles Bonkers and Dance Wiv Me, had two kids with Jones earlier than they break up in February 2021.
Prosecutor Helena Duong stated the assault occurred in ‘the context of a home dispute’ about youngster contact throughout what was a ‘pretty chaotic scene’ when he dropped off their daughter on the property.
The courtroom heard that in the course of the incident Mills allegedly ‘barged’ his means into the home carrying their son, began ‘shouting and screaming’, ‘put his brow towards hers and pushed her across the room’, and ‘pushed her to the bottom’.
The prosecutor stated that in the course of the incident, ‘he grew to become very indignant and began performing erratically, banging his head thrice on the fridge together with his son in his arms’.
Nonetheless Sally Bennett-Jenkins QC, defending Mills, questioned ‘inconsistencies’ in a number of witness statements Jones had made concerning the incident.
Bennett-Jenkins argued that each Mills and Jones have been screaming at one another in the course of the argument, whereas Jones, who grew to become more and more upset throughout her cross-examination, replied: ‘Sure, as a result of I used to be screaming to provide again my son.
‘He stated: “I can't perceive why you left me” and I stated: “I left you due to home abuse”.’
Questioned on why she wrote that he ‘threw’ her to the bottom in a single assertion fairly than ‘barged’ her Jones stated: ‘I used to be in shock about what had occurred and I used to be nonetheless caring for each our infants.
‘I’m sorry I used the flawed phrase however what occurred occurred and all I can do is communicate my fact.’
When she was questioned about claims that Mills ‘practically dropped’ their son, Jones stated: ‘He's listening and he is aware of he did that. He is aware of. He is aware of. He is aware of he practically did that.’
Jones earlier informed the courtroom in tears that Mills ‘was uncontrolled’ in the course of the incident.
When he arrived on the property, the courtroom was informed Jones stated he couldn't are available in however he picked up his son on the entrance and ‘barged her out the best way to make his means into the home together with his son in his arms’.
Duong stated he made his means into the kitchen the place Jones’s mom, Daybreak Kirk, was and he was ‘screaming and shouting’.
The prosecutor stated Jones started to movie Mills, including: ‘The crown say it exhibits him elevating his voice in direction of Kirk whereas he has his son beneath his arms.
‘The crown say he grew to become very indignant and began performing erratically, banging his head thrice on the fridge together with his son in his arms.’
Duong stated she tried to name the police however he grabbed her telephone, including: ‘Ms Jones wished to get her son off him.’
The prosecutor stated Mills then ‘put his brow towards hers and pushed her across the room’ and Jones then screamed for him to ‘get off’ her.
It’s alleged there was then a ‘scuffle for the telephone’ and Mills ‘pushed her to the bottom and she or he landed on her elbows’.
Duong stated: ‘The shouting was sufficiently loud to trigger concern to the neighbour’ who came to visit to calm the state of affairs down and located ‘Mr Mills attending to 100% anger’.
The prosecutor described the dispute as a ‘pretty chaotic scene of transferring round the home’, whereas Jones informed the courtroom in tears that Mills grew ‘very indignant’ and ‘was uncontrolled’ in the course of the incident, claiming he ‘practically dropped’ their son.
Jones later stated: ‘He put his brow on my brow and he pushed me across the room’ however added that it was not a ‘headbutt’.
She stated he additionally ‘barged’ her and she or he ‘fell to the ground’, bruising and grazing her left arm, including: ‘He was charging round, out and in of the home. He was uncontrolled.’
On August 2, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police confirmed Mills had been charged, saying: ‘Dylan Mills, 36, of Sevenoaks, Kent, has been charged with assault after an incident at a residential handle in Streatham on 8 June.
‘Officers attended and a lady reported minor accidents. She didn't require hospital remedy.’
The rapper was launched on conditional bail.
Mills was 18 when his debut, Boy in da Nook, was launched in 2003, with the album occurring to turn into one of many 12 months’s most acclaimed albums and successful the Mercury Prize.
Since then, he has launched an extra six albums, together with 2020’s E3 AF, and achieved three consecutive quantity ones with Dance Wiv Me with Calvin Harris, Bonkers with Armand Van Helden, and Vacation that includes Chrome.
Mills was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) within the 2020 Birthday Honours for companies to music.
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