{"id":199285,"date":"2025-10-14T11:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199285\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:38:09","slug":"man-jailed-for-five-years-for-threatening-to-kill-nigel-farage-on-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199285\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed for five years for threatening to kill Nigel Farage on TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760360590_318_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hagXkB hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/f5763790-a5e3-11f0-92db-77261a15b9d2.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"PA Media Fayaz Khan looking at the camera. He has a brown bandana wrapped around his head and throat. He is wearing small white earphones. He is speaking in a selfie-style video and has tattoos under his eyes, one of which depicts a gun.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 bGQwLJ\"\/>PA Media<\/p>\n<p>Fayaz Khan made the threat in a video he uploaded to TikTok<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A man who came to the UK on a small boat and threatened to kill Nigel Farage has been jailed for five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Fayaz Khan, 26, made a gun gesture with his hand, pointed to an AK-47 tattoo on his face and named the Reform UK leader in a TikTok post in October 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Authorities believed the Afghan migrant had given them a false name and he was actually a 31-year-old called Fayaz Husseini, Southwark Crown Court heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Speaking outside court, Farage said it was a &#8220;win&#8221; that &#8220;violent criminal&#8221; Khan had been jailed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">In the video on his &#8220;madapasa&#8221; account on TikTok, Khan pointed towards his face tattoo and said he was going to &#8220;pop, pop, pop&#8221; the MP for Clacton, in Essex, referring to him as &#8220;Englishman Nigel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760360590_318_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hagXkB hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4180c1a0-a8f0-11f0-a33c-d7bc21b91844.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"PA Media Nigel Farage on the court steps speaking to the gathered press. He has microphones in front of him and is wearing a blue suit jacket, blue and silver tie and a white shirt.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 bGQwLJ\"\/>PA Media<\/p>\n<p>Farage told the gathered media outside court that Khan was a &#8220;violent criminal&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Farage described the threat as &#8220;pretty chilling&#8221; during the trial, adding: &#8220;Given his proximity to guns and love of guns, I was genuinely worried.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;The only reason we know about this guy is because somebody sent it to me on TikTok,&#8221; he added after the sentencing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;It makes me wonder how many other madapasas are there now in this country?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Khan was one of 65 migrants on board a black inflatable boat that entered the UK by crossing the English Channel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;The defendant livestreamed the recording of his crossing, which appears to have gathered a large online viewing,&#8221; said prosecutor Peter Ratliff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Enemies&#8217; <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The court heard Khan gave a false name because he had &#8220;enemies he did not want to find him&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">However, the prosecution said it was &#8220;more likely&#8221; he had given misleading details due to his criminal record while living in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Mr Ratliff also disputed Khan&#8217;s claim that he was unaware it was illegal to arrive in the UK by small boat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">He claimed Khan &#8220;intended to encourage others&#8221; by documenting his journey from Sweden to the UK, sharing it with hundreds of thousands of viewers online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The court was told Khan had 17 previous convictions in Sweden, including for carrying a knife, threatening behaviour and vandalism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Khan was also jailed in June 2019 after using threatening behaviour towards a public servant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">On 12 October 2024, Farage uploaded a video to YouTube entitled &#8220;the journey of an illegal migrant&#8221;, which showed Khan and referenced &#8220;young males of fighting age coming into our country about whom we know very little&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Jurors in Khan&#8217;s trial were told he responded with a TikTok video under the username &#8220;madapasa&#8221; two days later, threatening Farage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PA Media Fayaz Khan made the threat in a video he uploaded to TikTok A man who came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-199285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}