A UK jury has found 26-year-old Afghan asylum seeker and TikTok ’influencer’ Fayaz Khan—known online as ‘Mada Pasa’—guilty of making a threat to kill Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. The conviction stems from a TikTok video Mada Pasa posted from Dunkirk in October 2024 while travelling to the UK on a so-called small boat.
In the video, Khan made hand gestures mimicking guns and head-butting movements towards the camera, leading Farage to tell the court he understood the clip as a threat that the asylum seeker intended to come to England and shoot him. Farage described the threats as “pretty chilling” and said they made him “genuinely worried.”
Prosecutor Peter Ratliff argued the threat was “not some off-the-cuff comment” and described the video as “sinister and menacing.”
Mada Pasa—who declined to give evidence—told police during a November 1st, 2024, interview that he “didn’t know who Nigel Farage was” and “was never going to hurt anyone.” He claimed the gun gestures were part of his TikTok persona and that he came to the UK to have the AK47 tattoo removed from his face.
Mada Pasa’s mobile phone contained a GB News clip about the case, which he had edited to include the words “Madapasa battalion v UK” and “I Mean what I say.”
Jurors deliberated for nearly 12 hours before returning a guilty verdict at Southwark Crown Court. Defence lawyer Charles Royle maintained that Mada Pasa was acting in an “idiosyncratic, moronic, comedic, eye-catching, attention-seeking way” rather than making a genuine threat to Farage.
