A Liverpool rapper who was jailed for attacking his ex-partner boasted he would leave a girl “crawling” in a music video.
Darren Colecozy, 21, aka Capz, was sentenced to nine months behind bars after he shut ex-girlfriend Hannah Lynch in his bedroom and threatened to blow up her gran’s house.
In a video posted on YouTube channel AKA in 2012 the rapper, who was named as one of Crimestoppers’ 10 most wanted on Merseyside last month, performed track Lost Angel Riddim.
The lyrics to the song included comments that girls shouldn’t be flat-chested.
Colecozy rapped: “Got to have a nice figure, they can’t be fat.”
He went on to say: “Once I’m done with her, nah, she won’t be walking.
“That b***h will be crawling.”
Darren Colecozy, 21, of Stevenson Street, Wavertree, jailed for nine months for assaulting his ex-girlfriend and breaching a restraining order
Jo Wood, from Merseyside Rape and Sexual Abuse centre (RASA), branded the lyrics an “affront” to women.
She said: “It is sad that in the 21st century women are still seen very much as possessions of men, to be acquired on a night out.
“For someone who purports to be trying to ‘get it right’ it’s shocking to hear such antiquated misogynistic expressions about potential partner’s shape and size – so, women are nothing more than a particular shaped vessel for male pleasure?
“Clearly only male pleasure as ‘Once I’m done with her she won’t be walking. That b***h will be crawling’ sounds like a serious sexual assault rather than shared pleasure.
“The lyrics are crude, offensive and seriously outdated.
“They are an affront to women everywhere and a clear indication of how far we still have to go to dispel the long standing myths about sexual violence, abuse and consent.
“Popularising such beliefs serves to normalise sexual violence.
“It is intimidating and helps to silence survivors of sexual violence who are brainwashed by the belief that such assaults are normal and simply something to be endured.
“Sadly, young people will join in the singing of such lyrics, without knowing what they are saying, further buying into the myth that treating women and girls with such contempt is acceptable.”
Colecozy, of Stevenson Street, Wavertree, was given a restraining order preventing him from contacting former girlfriend Miss Lynch in July 2014, after he threw a cup of tea over her when she refused to let him look at her Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp accounts.
He breached the order twice, the second time when he met her in the city centre at about 4.30am on June 28.
Anya Horwood, prosecuting, said Colecozy made her go back to his Wavertree home, where he lives with his mum and her partner, in a taxi.
Miss Lynch said he took her mobile phone away and when they got to the house he dragged her upstairs.
She said he would not let her out of his bedroom, pushed her onto the bed and threatened to blow her grandmother’s house up.
Colecozy pleaded guilty to common assault and breaching his restraining order.
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