Micheal. The image wasn't only shown in the Mail. The most disturbing thing about this, apart from the incident itself of course, is the apparent endorsement of the BBC, and still streaming it on iPlayer.Tyron Frampton, better known by his stage name ‘slowthai’ screamed the obscenities while clutching the life-like head before his Mercury Prize performance, shown on BBC Four and still available on the iPlayer service.The 24-year-old, who also wore a t-shirt emblazoned with ‘F*** Boris’ says that he was “holding a mirror up to the country,” and that “some people don’t like the reflection.”At the end of his medley, with the cameras still trained on him, the rapper picked up the fake severed head from the side of the stage and held it aloft for a second time.Having stripped to the waist he again shouted: "F*** Boris Johnson. F*** everything".But yesterday, a BBC spokesperson defended the performance, saying: "We applaud the expression of music and we maintained the integrity of slowthai's performance but we did have to make some visual edits in order to minimise offence."Minimise offence?? Just take the pile of s**t down!!🤬
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