Refugee who threatened Nigel Farage continued to make jail house films during his trial

An Afghan asylum seeker who made a TikTok video threatening to kill Nigel Farage and then posted more clips from his prison cell during his trial is facing jail.

Fayaz Khan, 26, also known as Madapasa, filmed himself making machine gun sounds and punching the wall in HMP Elmley, Sheerness, Kent as his case proceeded.

One of the videos was posted on the first day of his trial at Southwark Crown Court this week.

In the original video, Khan told the Reform leader he was coming to marry his sister while travelling to the UK from Sweden, where he had lived since 2019.

He was detained shortly after his arrival in the country via a small boat last October.

Khan, who has a tattoo of a Kalashnikov assault rifle on his cheek, addresses ‘English man Nigel’ in the first video.

He tells the MP: ‘You do not know me. I come to England because I want to marry your sister.

‘Don’t talk about me more. Delete the video.

‘I’m going to come to England. I’m going to pop pop pop.’

Khan then points at the gun tattoo on his cheek before pretending to headbutt the camera.

The clip was posted on 14 October, two days after Farage shared a video entitled ‘the journey of an illegal migrant’.

Giving evidence, Farage said Khan’s video was ‘pretty chilling’.

He told jurors: ‘What he says is that he’s coming to England and he’s going to shoot me. I understood very clearly as did many other people.

‘What he says is that he’s coming to England and he’s going to shoot me. I understood very clearly as did many other people.’

Referring to the tattoo of a Kalashnikov assault rifle on Khan’s face the Reform leader said: ‘Do you have a tattoo like that at your local golf club? I don’t think so.

‘I’ve never seen a tattoo of that nature. It is pretty exceptional by any standard or any measure.’

‘I hoped that I would stop him coming.’

He said that Khan’s comments about wanting to ‘marry’ his sister showed that he has a misogynistic attitude towards women.

‘Even saying that shows that this is a deeply misogynistic individual. I doubt that he was using the word ‘married’ in the sense that we all understand.

‘The concern was that this is a man who treats women as mere objects and could be a threat to them on our streets.

Mr Farage said that he would be worried if Khan was free to walk the streets.

‘I was genuinely concerned that he would be free to walk the streets and I still am.’

Charles Royle, defending, asked Mr Farage what he meant when he referred to ‘fighting age males’ in his YouTube video.

Farage replied: ‘Because that’s what they are. There may be genuine refugees among them, but the vast majority are not.’

‘They are fit adult males. This was not just a fit young male but a very aggressive young male.’

Khan’s phone was seized and it showed he had posted about Farage before.

Prosecutor Peter Ratliff said: ‘By the autumn of last year, at least, he had a very large presence online – and in particular on the social media site TikTok. His videos had hundreds of thousands of views.

‘He had various names that he used on different social media accounts, but the name he predominantly used was Madapasa.

‘In the autumn of 2024 the defendant’s videos were focused on his attempts to come from Sweden to the UK via small boat.

‘The examination of the defendant’s handset shows that the defendant’s interest in threatening Nigel Farage was not a momentary one, he threatened to shoot someone – the prosecution suggest Nigel Farage.

‘He had a video of a GB News presenter talking about his case in which Swedish was overlayed which included ‘The Madapasa Battalion vs UK’; he had an image of a GB News report about the threat to kill on which the words ‘I mean what I say’ had been added.’

Khan did not give evidence in the three day trial.

When questioned by police, he claimed that when he said ‘pop pop pop’, and made a hand gesture to indicate a gun, it did not mean he was suggesting he wanted to shoot Farage.

The prosecutor said Khan did not give evidence because he has no defence.

‘What the defendant wanted the world to think is that he was genuinely authentic and dangerous. Whether he was is neither here nor there. That is what he wanted the world to think.

‘What tattoos you have says a lot about how you want the world to understand you. If you have a tattoo of Taylor Swift on your leg that is because you love Taylor Swift and you want the world to know that you love Taylor Swift.

‘If you have an AK-47 on your tattoo on your arm and face that is because you love AK-47’s and you want the world to know that.’

Khan, of Sheerness, Kent, denied but was convicted by the jury of making a threat to kill.

He is believed to have convictions for drug offences in Sweden.

Aided by a Dari interpreter, Khan, wearing a black waterproof coat, showed no emotion as the jury of seven women and five men delivered their majority verdict after deliberating for 11 hours and 55 minutes.

Mr Justice Steyn said to the jury: ‘The next stage in this case is for me to sentence the defendant. That will not take place now but if you wish to attend you are free to do so.

‘Thank you for all your hard work and commitment to this trial.’

Khan will be sentenced on October 14.

During the trial a juror raised concerns about her English language skills after another member of the panel had to act as her translator.

But the judge, Mrs Justice Karen Steyn ruled that she could continue to serve on the jury.

‘I am entirely satisfied that the juror has been able to understand all the evidence and directions on the route to verdict,’ the judge said.

‘I am satisfied that the juror will be able to conduct a fair trial complying with her oath.’

The court heard that the juror had been speaking in Italian during the deliberations and another juror had been interpreting.

‘I understand that on occasion a juror has expressed her views in Italian, which another juror interpreted,’ the judge said.

The judge warned the panel that all deliberations must be done in English.