Afghan migrant Fayaz Khan sentenced over Nigel Farage death threats

An Afghan sporting an AK-47 face tattoo who in a TikTok video threatened to kill Reform UK leader Nigel Farage shouted out to the outspoken politician as his sentence was handed down.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has voiced his disgust that an illegal Afghan migrant who arrived in the UK on a small boat and threatened to kill him in a TikTok video will be free to roam the streets in 18 months.

At London’s Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT) Fayaz Khan, 26, who has an AK-47 face tattoo, was sentenced to five years in jail after he filmed a selfie video threatening to kill the political leader.

He used the words “pop, pop, pop” to mimic a gunshot in October last year while threatening Mr Farage.

Fayaz Khan has been sentenced to jail for threatening to kill British politician Nigel Farage. Picture: UK Crown Prosecution Service

In the same month Mr Farage shared a video on YouTube titled, “Nigel Farage: The journey of an illegal migrant” and voiced his concerns about the soaring number of illegal migrants arriving by boat via the English Channel.

He shared a video of Khan, who used the username ‘madapasa’ online, showing him attempting to cross the English Channel and said he’s in the UK “for life to make money, he’s here to Lord it over us”.

“Folks, these are the sort of people who are crossing the English Channel,” Mr Farage said at the time.

Khan then responded with a TikTok video, which the court heard, and said: “Englishman, don’t talk s**t about me”.

“You not know me. I come to England because I want to marry with your sister.

“You not know me”.

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage speaks to assembled media outside Southwark Crown Court following the sentencing of Fayaz Khan. Picture: Getty Images

Mr Farage is surging in the British political polls and has been vocal on stamping out illegal migration in the UK.

Outside court after the verdict was handed down, Mr Farage thanked the judge for the sentencing and said: “The fact is that in 18 months time this violent criminal, somebody with 17 convictions in Sweden, in 18 months time he will be in this country in a house of multiple occupancy or a hotel.

“He will be free to walk the streets while his asylum claim is being judged and the only reason we know about this guy is because somebody sent it to me on TikTok.

“And it makes me wonder, how many other ‘madapasas’ are there now in this country or will there be as the boats continue to cross the channel”.

The illegal migrant who threatened to kill me has been sentenced to 5 years in prison.

This violent criminal will be back on the streets in just 18 months time.

How many more people like Mada Pasa have crossed the Channel? pic.twitter.com/qsyfEFFc57

— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) October 14, 2025

As he was sentenced, Khan shouted out to Farage in the courtroom: “I want to go back to

Afghanistan, send me back to Afghanistan, my family is in Afghanistan.

“You want to use me because you want to be prime minister.”

Nigel Farage is worried the man convicted of making a death threat against him could attempt to seek asylum in Britain. Picture: Getty Images

Police told the court Khan had been living in Sweden since 2019 and had a large social media following.

The court was also told Khan gave a false name to British authorities after arriving in the UK and that Swedish authorities believe he is called Fayaz Husseini and is aged 31.

The judge said he gave a different name not because he was hiding from “enemies” but because he had a “criminal record in Sweden”.

– with AFP

Originally published as Afghan migrant Fayaz Khan sentenced over Nigel Farage death threats