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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Ben Quinn

Nigel Farage felt ‘genuinely worried’ by alleged TikTok death threat, court hears

Screengrab from a video by Fayaz Khan, who is charged with making a threat to kill the Reform UK leader.
A screengrab from a video by Fayaz Khan, who reportedly made gun gestures while saying ‘pop, pop, pop’ and pointed to his AK47 rifle tattoo. Photograph: CPS/PA

Nigel Farage felt “genuinely worried” after a man allegedly posted a TikTok video threatening to come to Britain and shoot him, a court has heard.

The Reform UK leader was giving evidence at the trial of Fayaz Khan, 26, who has been charged with threatening to kill the Reform UK leader last year in a post Farage described as “pretty chilling”.

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