Sunday People

MURDER hit music album from his cell RAP Fury of knife victim’s family at web giants

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“Mover dropped one of the best UK rap tapes ever whilst riding a 30 stretch. No one can tell me he ain’t the king.”

Agera lied in court at his trial, claiming he was attacked first and had been racially abused.

Jailing him for a minimum of 30 years in May 2015, an Old Bailey judge said: “The defence you constructe­d during this trial added cruelty to Zydrunas’s family on top of your terrible violence.

“Your story that this all started with racist abuse was false.”

The victim’s sister Indre, 30, told the Sunday People: “It’s disgusting. It shouldn’t be happening. He’s in prison – it shouldn’t be like this.

“I didn’t know that he was making an album now. I thought he released one song and that was it. I thought it was done. I didn’t know that he had kept going. It’s not right that he is making money.

“That hurts me and my family. My brother had a son. He was ten when his father died.

“My brother had been working to make money to send home to his wife and son. His boy came to visit the UK on holiday from Lithuania not knowing that he didn’t have a father any more.

Suffering

“When he arrived I had to tell him that his dad was dead.”

Indre, who helps run a mail order clothing firm from her East London home, said Agera shouldn’t receive a penny from the record.

She added: “He took the life of my brother. He shouldn’t be singing about it. He should pay for it.

“The money should go to us. We didn’t get anything. My brother’s son is without a father, without a family to support him. This is not right.

“How can a song be released from inside the most secure prison in the country? It looks like he e has a mobile phone.. How? This shows hee hasn’t l earned hiss l e s s on. We are e suffering a life sentence e for this.

“I don’t think people e who took the life of somebody should be allowed back out.”

Rose Dixon, chief executive of t he Support After Murder and Manslaught­er, is demanding a Ministry of Justice inquiry into the album. She said: “I’m just amazed. How on earth do they get a mobile phone in there? And how is this allowed to happen? “I think the Ministry of Justice needs to be contacting iT iTunes and saying this is unacceptab­le. “The fact that he’s be been able to get this ou out there, that’s the thi thing that’s unusual ab about this case. “I’m not aware of tha that having happened bef before. I just think it’s un unbelievab­le. ““The victim’s poor f am amily must be dis distraught. I will be tak taking this up with the min ministry, who provide part of our funding.” Last night a prison source told the Sunday People: “The offender has been placed on report and may face extra punishment when investigat­ions are complete.”

A Prison Service spokesman said: “This behaviour i s completely unacceptab­le and we are taking immediate action.

“We are clear that those who break the rules will be punished and can face extra time behind bars.

“We are taking decisive action to find and block mobile phones in prison, including a £2million investment in detection wands and legislatio­n to block phones from being in prisons.”

At least 13,000 mobile phones were found in jails last year.

Spotify and iTunes were unavailabl­e for comment yesterday.

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