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UK's Farage tells court migrant threatened 'to shoot me'

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AFP October 08, 2025 Less than a minute read
Nigel Farage stands in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, US, December 15, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS

LONDON:

The firebrand leader of the anti-immigration Reform UK party Nigel Farage told a London court Tuesday he was "genuinely worried" after an Afghan migrant allegedly threatened to shoot him in a TikTok video.

Fayaz Khan, 26, who arrived in the UK on a small boat, is on trial at London's Southwark Crown Court, accused of threatening to kill Farage in October 2024.

Khan had a "very large presence online" with his TikTok videos garnering hundreds of thousands of views, the court heard.

Prosecutor Peter Ratliff said Khan's videos last year focused on his attempts to reach the UK by small boat, a popular but deadly route used by thousands of people to reach British shores from France.

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