A man who came to the UK on a small boat and threatened to kill Nigel Farage has been jailed for five years.
Fayaz Khan, 26, made a gun gesture with his hand, pointed to an AK-47 tattoo on his face and named the Reform UK leader in a TikTok post in October 2024.
Authorities believed the Afghan migrant had given them a false name and he was actually a 31-year-old called Fayaz Husseini, Southwark Crown Court heard.
Farage described the threat as “pretty chilling”, adding: “Given his proximity to guns and love of guns, I was genuinely worried.”
In the video, Khan pointed towards his face tattoo and said he was going to “pop, pop, pop” the MP for Clacton, in Essex, referring to him as “Englishman Nigel”.
Sentencing him, judge Mrs Justice Steyn said: “Your video was not more abuse, it was a threat to kill with a firearm and it was, as Mr Farage put it, ‘pretty chilling’.”
Khan was one of 65 migrants on board a black inflatable boat that entered the UK by crossing the English Channel.
“The defendant livestreamed the recording of his crossing, which appears to have gathered a large online viewing,” said prosecutor Peter Ratliff.
