A rapper in the UK who launched a music label to encourage more “diversity” and said he feared going outside over receiving racist comments has been jailed for 13 and a half years for violently attacking a couple with a knife and a hammer.
Rutendo Matsika, who performs as Coll, arrived in the UK as a migrant from Zimbabwe in the late 90’s.
In 2019, Matsika complained to the media about how he was on the receiving end of racist comments that left him afraid to be out in public.
“When we came here I would just be walking around and someone would shout abusive stuff at me and I didn’t know how to deal with it as in Portsmouth we hadn’t experienced any racism and it really stuck with me,” he said.
“When I played football people have also shouted really racist things which made me self-conscious and anxious and I didn’t want to go out as I didn’t know who was racist.”
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