A man who came to the UK on a small boat has been found guilty of making a threat to kill Nigel Farage in a TikTok video.

Fayaz Khan, 26, an Afghan national, was found guilty by a majority of 10 jurors to two after almost 12 hours of deliberation at Southwark court court. He had made the threat to kill the Reform UK leader in October last year in a video that Farage told the court was “pretty chilling”.

Khan had a “very large presence online” with his videos on TikTok, amassing hundreds of thousands of views, jurors had heard.

In autumn last year Khan’s videos were focused on his attempts to come to the UK by small boat. He had lived in Stockholm, Sweden, since 2019, the prosecutor, Peter Ratliff , told the court.

On 12 October last year, Farage uploaded a video to YouTube titled “the

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