Dizzee Rascal wrote ‘diss track’ after assault case guilty verdict

Rapper is appealing against his conviction after his ex-fiancée accused him of attack at her home

DIZZEE RASCAL, the rapper, released a “diss track” on the day he was found guilty of attacking his ex-fiancée, a court has heard.

The musician, 38, whose real name is Dylan Mills, is appealing against his conviction for assaulting Cassandra Jones on June 8 last year.

A diss track is a song in which the primary purpose is to verbally attack someone else, usually another artist.

Giving evidence from behind a screen, she described how he “barged” into her south London home before “smashing” his head against the fridge “out of frustration”.

Ms Jones said she “stumbled to the ground” after Mills “pushed his forehead into my forehead and pushed me around the room”.

“He reached his red mist where he just doesn’t care,” she told Inner London Crown Court.

Sallie Bennett-jenkins KC, defending, suggested her client was “perfectly calm” when he arrived and it was Ms Jones who “has a temper” and is “abusive” towards him.

Ms Bennett-jenkins said of Ms Jones’s recollection of events: “What happened is quite the reverse of what you have said – that you were upset and concerned about your financial position, that that developed into an argument in which you in fact pushed Dylan and scratched his arm.”

Ms Jones replied: “Are you actually being serious?”

Ms Bennett-jenkins said: “There was a verbal argument which resulted in you losing your temper, pushing Dylan, scratching his left arm and there was no physical aggression from him to you.”

Ms Jones, who had two children with Mills before they split in February 2021, said he had reduced her “allowance” from £2,000 to £1,800 when she was “badly behaved”.

When it was suggested the only reduction had come as a result of a loss of bookings due to the Covid pandemic, she said: “He is a multi-millionaire. He’s just bought a second Ferrari for himself. He’s a very wealthy man, he raps about it all the time.

“I haven’t sold any stories to the press for financial gain. He’s a very, very wealthy man who made £870,000 during the pandemic. He released a diss track, at 38 years old, the day he was convicted. He rapped about the judge.”

In April, Mills was given a community order, including a 24-week curfew and 12-month restraining order banning him from contacting his former partner, as well as being ordered to pay £2,190 in costs and a £95 surcharge.

He was made an MBE for services to music in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2020. The case has been adjourned to Jan 27.