A DRILL rapper who tortured a child and groomed kids into attacking gangland rivals with free fried chicken was let out of prison under Labour’s early release scheme.
Isaac Donkoh, 29, was one of 1,100 criminals set free after serving only five-and-a-half years of his 12-and-a-half-year sentence for kidnapping and beating a teenage boy.
4
4
4
It meant he was eligible for Sir Keir Starmer’s SDS40 scheme – having served 45 per cent of his time inside.
He would otherwise have been eligible for release next April.
The violent drill rapper, known as Young Dizz, announced his return to the streets in a post on TikTok, telling his 2,700 followers: “Yo, ok. How do we work this thing?
“This technology is mad, you know. Is this the TikTok thing? I’m looking different. I’m feeling this one still.”
And his TikTok account’s biography stated: “Revenge is like air, always necessary”.
The violent thug’s complicated criminal operation was brought down after a ten-month Met Police investigation in 2018.
They discovered Donkoh had groomed underage children into joining his 6th Gang in the E6 postcode of Beckton, East London.
He then used four child accomplices, two 16-year-old boys and two 14-year-old boys, to kidnap, strip and torture another 16-year-old.
During his sentencing in April 2019, Snaresbrook crown court heard how Donkoh arranged a meeting with the youngster in Barking, East London.
4
The group met the boy, who thought he had agreed to see a mutual friend, late at night on August 2, 2018.
But when he arrived, the teen was instead brutalised in a five-on-one assault and stuffed into the back of Donkoh’s dark blue Ford Mondeo.
He was then threatened with a machete before two plastic bags were put over his head and strapped on with an elastic band.
The boy was then taken to a house and forced to strip naked while the monster filmed, as he also threatened to cut him up with scissors.
In horrifying footage filmed on his own mobile, Donkoh, from Chelsea, West London, tried to pour boiling water over the boy’s head but missed, instead scalding the youngster’s feet.
The gang bashed a metal pole over the teen’s face, back, legs and arms while he begged for mercy before also shaving his head.
The rapper then made the boy plead with his parents on the phone to pay a £1,500 ransom.
The victim, who can’t be named, told the court: “I thought they were probably going to kill me.”
Donkoh admitted kidnap, false imprisonment and “extremely violent” grievous bodily harm.
His co-defendants, who were too young to be named, pleaded guilty or were found guilty of the same offences and got between two-and-a-half and three-and-a-half years.
The rapper and one of his accomplices also admitted seeking to pervert the course of justice by offering the victim £5,000 to drop the criminal case.
Two years later in 2021, a pair of schoolboys recruited into gang life by Donkoh were sentenced to life in prison for hacking an 18-year-old to death with machetes.
The killers, both wearing electronic tags, were aged just 14 and 16 when they set upon Santino Dymiter in Plaistow, East London, in August 2019.
It came weeks after they were released from young offenders’ institutions, having already been convicted and sent down over a separate plot with Donkoh.
The rapper’s depraved crimes were part of a 2019 BBC documentary The Met: Policing London.
Cops later revealed how the minor celebrity groomed young boys to join his criminal enterprise with free meals at chicken and bagel shops.
Detective Sergeant Joe McClenaghan said at the time: “If you watch Donkoh’s videos, he paraded himself as the big man who was in charge.
“You would see young men flocking around him like a film star. He was clever.
“He would take them for dinner at chicken and bagel shops and treat them if they were bringing money into the gang.
“He would take them to sit-down restaurants that typically their parents couldn’t afford.
“Isaac had access to a lot of money and could offer the here and now to entice and trap them until they paid him back.
“Donkoh was able to move them from being young men attending school, football clubs, doing what normal kids do, to very quickly being willing to commit the type of crime they did.”
Moment lag let out of prison early shouts ‘big up Starmer’ before setting off in £200k Bentley
A FORMER inmate could be heard shouting ‘big up Keir Starmer – I’m off to McDonalds’ after being released from prison early.
Daniel Dowling-Brooks celebrated his return to the outside world and freedom with family and friends outside HMP Swaleside before being picked up in a £200,000 Bentley.
Hundred of other prisoners followed suit while being released under plans to reduce pressure on overcrowded jails across England and Wales.
The driver of a Rolls Royce Cullinan super car was parked up outside HMP Ford this morning and when asked by The Sun who he was collecting, he joked: “The Pope.”
The second mass release of prisoners since Starmer earned the role of Prime Minister with around 1,700 prisoners let out in September.
