'No clearer case!' Barrister demands small boat migrant who threatened to kill Nigel Farage to be deported 'as quickly as possible'

Fayaz Khan, a small boat migrant from Afghanistan, threatened the Reform UK leader in October last year in a TikTok video.

On his "madapasa" account, Mr Khan pointed towards his face tattoo of an AK-47 and claimed he was going to "pop, pop, pop" Mr Farage, referring to him as "Englishman Nigel".

Discussing the sentencing on GB News, Mr Courts said: "A really extraordinary case, and him shouting that he wants to go back to Afghanistan, of course is the opposite of what is normally claimed in these cases.

"This is clearly a really very straightforward example of the risks that are being run, of the security threat that is faced, and why we have to be in a position that we know who is coming into our country and we're able to keep tabs on them, know who they are, know what they are, know if they face any risks, and for those people then to be returned to their country of origin, if they're not the sort of people that we want here."

Citing Khan's case, the Barrister added: "This case of someone with a long criminal history, clearly violent and making threats against an elected politician is a clear, very straightforward case of the sort of person who we ought to be having here at all."

Asked by host Nana Akua why the individual cannot be deported, Mr Courts explained that it is dependant on returns agreements with certain countries.

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He told GB News: "It's a question that people will be asking all over the country, and it's usually about the state of the returns agreement with that country, whether there's a Government that you can deal with on the other side, whether they will accept people back.

"There's also something about the principle of serving the penalty in the place where you committed the crime, but nonetheless, really, sometimes there are clear cases which just show that there needs to be a change."

Backing calls for Mr Khan to be removed from Britain, the barrister stated: "And there couldn't be, in my view, a clearer case of someone who is violent, who came here with ill intent, who made it absolutely clear, and the British people will be asking themselves why we should be paying for someone to be imprisoned in this country when we have prison overcrowding issues and many other people needing that space.

"Rather than simply to do what is, after all, what he wants, which is to be returned to Afghanistan."

Pressing Mr Courts again, Nana highlighted that the Taliban claimed they would "take back anybody to Afghanistan", and so Mr Khan should be eligible to be removed..

Mr Courts concluded: "That is without knowing more about the background, and that is usually the case that it's about the state of the returns agreement. But in any event, I make no excuse for the system. This is clearly a case where someone like that should be sent out of the country as quickly as possible."

Speaking to reporters outside court, Mr Farage said: "Well, I suppose we call that a win. It was about the maximum sentence that could possibly be given, five years, given the scale of the offence.

"And I thank Justice Steyn. I thank the judge for saying what she said. But the fact is that in 18 months time this violent criminal, somebody with 17 convictions in Sweden, in 18 months time he will be in this country, living in a house of multiple occupancy or a hotel, free to walk the streets whilst his asylum claim is judged."