{"id":488471,"date":"2025-10-10T13:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488471\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:51:12","slug":"migrant-with-ak-47-face-tattoo-found-guilty-of-threatening-to-kill-nigel-farage-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488471\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant with AK-47 face tattoo found guilty of threatening to kill Nigel Farage | Politics News"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Afghan migrant has been found guilty of threatening to kill Nigel Farage in a TikTok post.<\/p>\n

Fayaz Khan, 26, chose not to give evidence in his trial, in which he was accused of threatening the Reform UK leader between 12 and 15 October last year in a video on the social media platform.<\/p>\n

Mr Farage<\/a><\/strong> said the video was “pretty chilling”.<\/p>\n

Jurors deliberated for 11 hours and 55 minutes before finding him guilty at Southwark Crown Court.<\/p>\n

They had been told Khan had a “very large presence online”, with his TikTok videos amassing hundreds of thousands of views as he showed himself attempting to come to the UK by small boat last autumn.<\/p>\n

The Afghan national, who has an AK-47 tattoo on his right cheek and arm, live-streamed his journey across the English Channel from France in a small boat and was arrested on 31 October after arriving in the UK.<\/p>\n

He had been living in Stockholm, Sweden, since 2019.<\/p>\n

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\n Fayaz Khan posted a TikTok video of him appearing to threaten to kill Nigel Farage. Pic: PA<\/p>\n

Jurors were told that on 12 October last year, Mr Farage uploaded a YouTube video titled “The journey of an illegal migrant”, which highlighted Khan and referenced “young males of fighting age coming into our country about whom we know very little”.<\/p>\n

Khan responded with a video two days later in which he appeared to say: “Englishman Nigel, don’t talk s**t about me.<\/p>\n

“You not know me. I come to England because I want to marry with your sister. You not know me.<\/p>\n

“Don’t talk about me more. Delete the video.<\/p>\n

“I’m coming to England. I’m going to pop, pop, pop.”<\/p>\n

He made gun gestures with his hand and headbutted the camera during the video, while pointing to the AK-47 tattoo on his face to “emphasise he wasn’t joking”, Mr Ratliff said.<\/p>\n

Mr Farage, who was at court for the trial, said the video was “pretty chilling”.<\/p>\n

“Given his proximity to guns and love of guns, I was genuinely worried,” he said.<\/p>\n

“He says he’s coming to England and he’s going to shoot me.”<\/p>\n

A subsequent TikTok post by Khan read: “I mean what I say” on an image of a GB News report about the threat against Mr Farage.<\/p>\n

\"Nigel<\/p>\n

Image:
\n Nigel Farage outside Southwark Crown Court. Pic: PA<\/p>\n

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Other videos Khan posted on social media were shown to the jury in which he appeared to make “pop, pop, pop” noises and similar gun hand gestures.<\/p>\n

After his arrest, Khan told police in November last year: “It was just a video, it was never an intention to threaten him.<\/p>\n

“It was never my intention to kill him or anything – this is my character, this is how I act in my videos.<\/p>\n

“In every video I make those sounds, I say ‘pop, pop pop’.”<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Peter Ratliff said the threat to kill was “not some off-the-cuff comment” and the video was “sinister and menacing”.<\/p>\n

He said Khan, who denied the charge, was a “dangerous man with an interest in firearms” and who had an AK-47 tattooed on his arm and face.<\/p>\n

Defence lawyer Charles Royle said Khan was “remonstrating in his own idiosyncratic, moronic, comedic, eye-catching, attention-seeking way” rather than making a threat to kill in the TikTok video.<\/p>\n

He told jurors the trial was “not about your views on illegal immigration, nor about your views on face tattoos, Brexit or Reform”.<\/p>\n

Discussing Khan’s decision not to give evidence, Mr Royle said: “You shouldn’t hold any silence against him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Afghan migrant has been found guilty of threatening to kill Nigel Farage in a TikTok post. Fayaz…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-488471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115350201053838724","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}