A small boat illegal immigrant who threatened to kill Reform UK leader Nigel Farage on TikTok was jailed for five years on Tuesday.
Fayaz Khan, who was found guilty of the offense last week, made the threat in a video post in October 2024 in response to a YouTube clip by Farage titled “the journey of an illegal migrant,” which highlighted Khan’s own documentation of his journey from Sweden to the UK.
In the clip, Farage made reference to “young males of fighting age coming into our country about whom we know very little.”
Khan then made a response video to the Reform UK leader, in which he said: “Englishman Nigel, don’t talk [expletive] about me. You not know me. I come to England because I want to marry with your sister.”
“You not know me. Don’t talk about me more. Delete the video,” the 26-year-old Afghan national said, before adding, “I’m coming to England. I’m going to pop, pop, pop,” while apparently making gun gestures with his hand and then headbutting the camera.
Khan was sentenced to five years for the threat against Farage, half of which will be served in prison, minus the time he has already served on remand, and the rest out on license.
He was also sentenced to eight months for entering the UK illegally, an offense to which he had already pleaded guilty, but the judge said that sentence would be served concurrently with the longer sentence.
The court heard the man gave British police the name Fayaz Khan and his age as 26, but authorities in Sweden believe him to be a 31-year-old by the name of Fayaz Husseini.
He told British authorities he gave a different name because he has “enemies he did not want to find him.” However, the judge ruled his reason for giving a false name was because he had a “criminal record in Sweden” and an outstanding six-month prison sentence in the Scandinavian nation.
Farage, who attended the sentencing hearing at London’s Southwark Crown Court, said he was “happy with the win” but “deeply, deeply concerned” that the man would soon be back on the streets.
“The fact is, in 18 months’ time, this violent criminal, somebody with 17 convictions in Sweden, in 18 months’ time, he will be in this country, living in a house of multiple occupancy or a hotel, he’ll be free to walk the streets whilst his asylum claim is being judged,” he said outside the court.
The Reform UK leader went on to say that the UK should reach a deal with Afghanistan to send asylum seekers convicted of crimes back to the country, as the German government has done.
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