Man jailed over video threatening to ‘blow away’ English Defence League Video of Habeeb Khan with ‘ornamental’ AK-47 rifle went viral on X during the summer riots in England.
A T-shirt Khan was wearing in an 11-second clip from the video was found on the washing line of his home when he was arrested on 7 August, two days after serious disorder in the nearby Bordesley Green area of Birmingham.
The clip, played to Birmingham crown court on Monday, showed Khan fitting a magazine to the Kalashnikov and saying: “EDL, we’re coming to fucking blow you away you motherfuckers.”.
Prosecutor Laurie Scott told the court that the clip was shared by numerous accounts on X, including by one with a message saying of Khan: “The most serious threat to protesters everywhere.
Habeeb Khan, 49, appeared in a social media video holding the decommissioned gun while threatening violence as disorder spread across England.
