Nigel Farage furious as migrant who threatened to kill him posts taunting video from jail
Mr Farage’s fury erupted after Fayaz Khan, 26, who entered the UK illegally via small boat last October, featured in nine TikTok clips from behind bars.
Nigel Farage questioned why the man was able to share the clips from prison (Image: TikTok)
Nigel Farage has angrily demanded to know why a convicted Afghan migrant, jailed for threatening to kill him, has nevertheless been able to upload a series of inflammatory videos from his cell to social media. The Reform UK leader’s post on the issue, shared at 5.38pm on Saturday, came just hours before a mass stabbing on a passenger train that stopped at Huntingdon station that evening.
Mr Farage’s fury erupted after Fayaz Khan, 26, who entered the UK illegally via small boat last October, featured in nine TikTok clips from behind bars. The videos, uploaded between September 18 and last week under the handle “afg203jfjijenh0,” showed Khan ranting in his prison cell, making repeated gun gestures and shouting expletives.
In one, Khan yelled: “Pop pop pop pop! Madapasa, motherf—–!” – a reference to his pre-arrest TikTok username “Madapasa.” Another clip captured him declaring he was from “f—— Afghanistan” before forming a gun symbol with his fingers, shouting “pop, pop, pop!” and headbutting the camera, abruptly ending the footage. The account garnered tens of thousands of likes before the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) ordered its removal.
Khan was sentenced last month at Southwark Crown Court to five years for making a death threat against Mr Farage and eight months concurrently for immigration offences, to which he had pleaded guilty.
His original TikTok video, posted before arriving in Britain, explicitly warned: “I’m going to shoot Mr Farage when I reach Britain in a small boat… You do not know me. Don’t talk about me more. Delete the video. I’m coming to England. I’m going to pop, pop, pop.”
He accompanied the words with gun gestures, a headbutt to the lens, and a point to his AK-47 tattoo. In a police interview last November, Khan claimed he had no intention of carrying out the threat.
Speaking outside court after the sentencing, Mr Farage said Khan had made it “perfectly clear” he wanted to return to Afghanistan but could be free in 18 months.
Mr Farage shared one of the prison clips on X, where it amassed more than million views by Sunday. He wrote: “This is Mada Pasa, the man recently convicted of threatening to kill me.
“How is he allowed to continue posting these videos from prison? Britain is broken,” attaching the footage. The post drew thousands of replies, with users decrying prison laxity and demanding deportations.
A Prison Service spokesperson condemned the breach: “It is outrageous this criminal has got a mobile phone into prison, and we have taken immediate action to pull these videos down and remove the profile.
Small boat migrant Fayaz Khan (Image: PA)
“Prisoners found to have a mobile phone or use social media could face extra time behind bars.” Officials searched Khan’s cell on Saturday night but found no device, suspecting he passed the recordings to an external accomplice for upload. The MoJ has launched a review.
The scandal compounds recent prison failures. Last month, Hadush Kebatu, a 41-year-old Ethiopian small-boat migrant convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Epping, was erroneously released from HMP Chelmsford due to “human error.” Recaptured after public recognition, he was deported to Ethiopia on October 29.
At about 7.42pm on Saturday – less than two hours after Mr Farage’s post – British Transport Police responded to reports of multiple stabbings on a 6.25pm train from Doncaster to London King’s Cross, shortly after leaving Peterborough.
The train halted at Huntingdon station, where armed officers arrested two suspects after Tasering one on the platform.
Ten people were injured, nine with life-threatening wounds. All were hospitalised, with no fatalities yet reported. Counter-terrorism police are supporting the investigation.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer described the attack as “deeply concerning” and urged the public to follow police advice. Early Sunday, Mr Farage posted: “The attack last night in Huntingdon was horrific.
“My thoughts are with all the victims and their families. We need to know who committed these awful attacks as soon as possible.” The message garnered over 100,000 views within hours, sparking online demands for transparency on the suspects’ backgrounds.
Contraband phones are seized over 10,000 times annually in prisons.
Mr Farage, a vocal critic of small-boat migration, has used the incidents to underscore systemic failures.
A Prison Service spokesperson said: “It is outrageous this criminal has got a mobile phone into prison, and we have taken immediate action to pull these videos down and remove the profile.
“Prisoners found to have a mobile phone or use social media could face extra time behind bars.”
