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A TikTok terror whose vile and cruel pranks landed him in jail has revealed he has turned a new leaf with a new - and ordinary - job.
The 20-year-old Londoner and social media star, known as Mizzy, sparked outrage for his vile 'pranks' shared online which included walking into strangers' houses, stealing an elderly woman's dog, knocking a man into a road and asking a passenger on a railway platform if he wanted to die.
In 2023, he was sentenced to 18 weeks in prison for breaking a court order that blocked him from filming people without their consent.
But now the notorious TikTok troublemaker, whose real name is Bacari-Bronze O'Garro, has turned his life around after becoming a father-of-two and getting a job in construction, according to The Sun.
He admitted he took his videos too far getting 'caught up' in the pursuit of fame, adding he is now 'working in construction this past year, keeping my head down'.
Mizzy said: 'First off, I know first-hand how easy it is to get caught up in the hype of chasing views and trying to go viral on TikTok.
'But there's a line between entertainment and recklessness, and when you cross that line it's not just a prank anymore - it can change people's lives forever.
'My advice to anyone coming up in the scene now is simple: think before you act, because the consequences don't just end with likes and shares, they can end with police, court, and victims left hurt or traumatised.'
He has previously revealed his hopes to make a better future for both himself and his two children - the youngest of whom was born in June, with the elder now aged two.
In a post of is newest son shared to his 146,000 Instagram followers, he said: 'One son changed my life. The second one made it real. Didn't see that coming did you?'
Reflecting on his past mistakes, he took to X to say he is committed to 'change my life around' and avoid being a harm to others.
He said: 'The day I came out of jail I told myself I am never going back and that imma [sic] do whatever it takes to change my life around so I can do better for my child and the people around me.
'So I went back to college, started looking for loads of jobs and signed up to a CSCS course.'
He added: 'Now I'm trying to progress further in different aspects of my life and change any negative perceptions on me and of course I won't be able to change everyone's mind due to how I've portrayed myself in the past on social media, but I hopefully resonate with the people who understand.
'Yes, I will be returning to socials and posting videos eventually but only in a way that will prevent me from being in risk of harm and anyone else.'
Before this, the content creator said he wanted to do better for his two children.
'The main thing I'm motivated by is my family, especially my newborn and my first child, because I'm focused on building a better future for myself and them.
'If I was going the way I was going, I probably would have ended up in jail for how long. Having these two young ones, I'm going to prove to myself and others I can do things the right way.'
Adding that his extreme pranks were due to his once 'impulsive' nature, O'Garro said that he previously believed he would get online fame from going viral, but had failed to consider the consequences.
In May 2023, O'Garro was ordered by Thames Magistrates' Court 'not to upload directly or indirectly, any original video content on social media, without prior documented consent of the people in that content'.
A month later he shared footage of himself sneaking through an open flat door while its residents sit on the balcony.
Mizzy was then seen opening two bedroom doors and laughing until the homeowners notice, running towards him. He is then chased out the flat by a barking Alsatian.
In November 2023, a court ruled that he 'deliberately and intentionally' flouted the order requiring documented consent just hours after it had been imposed.
During a trial at Stratford Magistrates Court, it was heard how O'Garro began sharing videos of people without their consent at Westfield Stratford, a location he had been banned from under the court order, 'within hours' of the criminal behaviour order being passed.
Other videos shared on O'Garro's Snapchat account, which were also in breach, showed him grabbing hold of a schoolboy by his uniform and another showed him fighting a man with dwarfism, which O'Garro claimed were hoax videos made with their prior agreement.
O'Garro's claim that one of his friends, who had access to his login details, posted the Twitter videos without his consent, was dismissed by Judge Matthew Bone as 'inconceivable'.
Judge Bone also highlighted the fact that on May 24, the same day the criminal behaviour order was imposed, O'Garro had appeared on Piers Morgan's TalkTV show Uncensored and slated the UK's criminal justice system.
Later that evening, in the video posted from Westfield Stratford, O'Garro said to the camera: 'I'm banned from this place, I can't go in here. The UK law is a joke.'
District Judge Bone found him guilty 'on two occasions of an intentional and a deliberate challenge to this order' - for the video filmed at Westfield, and for footage in which he 'roughed up' a schoolboy and a man with dwarfism and posted the video to Snapchat on July 7, 2023.
O'Garro was found not guilty of breaching the order for two videos – one, posted to X, of him cycling around a Sainsburys, and another which showed him doing the same through a Jobcentre.
The youngster was sentenced to 18 weeks at a young offenders' institution due to the age at which he committed the offence.