Revealed: Brit who 'married nine-year-old at Disneyland Paris' is convicted paedophile who paid for children to worship him at fake West End premiere, masterminded scam funeral with young actors and detonated explosion while naked opposite the O2
The man who pretended to marry a nine-year-old girl at Disneyland Paris is a convicted British paedophile behind a string of bizarre social media stunts, MailOnline can reveal.
Londoner Jaskarn or 'Jacky' Jhaj, 39, was arrested after paying £111,000 to stage the vile fake event at the fairlytale Sleeping Beauty castle, featuring musicians, a cake and chairs for hundreds of 'guests.
He has been charged with fraud, breach of trust, money laundering and identity theft, French prosecutors said on Tuesday evening.
Posing as the 22-year-old 'groom', Jhaj hired professional make-up artists to disguise his appearance, according to police sources in Paris.
MailOnline has confirmed that fantasist Jhaj, who has a weird track record of elaborate bad-taste hoaxes, was jailed for four years in 2016 for grooming and sexually assaulting two 15-year-old schoolgirls.
He lured them to parties by pretending to be a top Hollywood film producer and plying them with alcohol.
Last year, he organised a mysterious fake funeral with an empty coffin, even hiring extras as mourners at the famous London Oratory in Brompton Road, Knightsbridge.
The sex offender was also behind a similarly bizarre event in 2023 when a fake red carpet scene was shot in London's West End with 90 children and dozens more teenage extras hired to provide a crowd for the filming.
Child actors as young as six were recruited as extras dressed in school uniforms and asked to pretend to faint as Jhaj paraded up and down wearing a red tuxedo as if he were a film star at a premier outside the Odeon Luxe cinema in Leicester Square.
He was arrested following the phony movie premiere on suspicion of breaching a sexual harm prevention order and was released on bail.
Jhaj, who poses as a film producer, was subsequently fined £1,500 at Isleworth Crown Court last July for breaching notification requirements and a sexual harm prevention order.
The source of funding for his expensive set-ups is a mystery.
In another of his stunts, last year, Jhaj, who has boasted on camera about being branded 'a dangerous sexual predator', was filmed naked in Silvertown, east London as he blew up a fake police van, sending its roof 50ft into the air.
He was filming a scene for a production dubbed 'Project Dover' - which also involved a van with BBC World branding being set alight.
In the 2024 stunt, Jhaj was filmed at a typewriter surrounded by hundreds of newspapers on the floor before he flicked cigarettes at a police car, a police van and a BBC World News-branded lorry which all exploded into a huge blaze that terrified locals.
Questions remained over how the convicted criminal was apparently allowed to perform his terrifying stunt so publicly.
This week, the eerie footage emerged of the supposed wedding between a '22-year-old' Brit and a nine-year-old girl at the Disney resort outside Paris.
Around 100 seated guests were waiting for the ceremony to start as a female violin trio played at dawn before a stage strewn with flowers.
French broadcaster BFM shared the bizarre footage as well as an image of a pink ribbon bracelet that read 'Margo & Jack 21st June 2025'.
The Brit was arrested after park staff were shocked to see the 'scared and confused' child turn up for the event wearing what was said to be a bridal dress and four-inch heels taped to her feet, according to Le Parisien.
Jean-Baptiste Bladier, the Meaux prosecutor, said the British suspect was also being investigated for 'corruption of a minor'.
He is said to have disguised himself to 'play the role of the groom, having made up his face professionally', added M. Bladier.
The girl's mother, who is believed to be of Ukrainian heritage and was later arrested, had reportedly said she wanted her daughter to feel like a Disney 'princess' for the day, according to DW.
The girl is said to have been carried around because she could not walk in the extravagant costume.
In his London funeral stunt, Jhaj reportedly paid over £10,000 to a funeral director for the service. The elaborate setup included a horse-drawn carriage, two luxury cars, and a full choir.
However, when Father Rupert McHardy, 49, arrived in his robes to conduct the ceremony, he sensed that something was amiss.
The 'guests' who showed up for the ceremony were late, many dressed in black puffer jackets and face masks.
Father McHardy had been informed that the funeral was for Lauris Zaube, a 23-year-old Latvian man missing since a New Year's Eve party near an iced-over dam west of Riga. Jhaj, posing as the missing man's brother and using the name 'Clyde,' wore dark glasses and declined to provide more information when asked by Father McHardy.
The sick hoax sparked international media attention when it emerged that Fr McHardy had dramatically stopped the service upon realising that it was being filmed, that the mourners were fakes and the coffin was empty.
The serial prankster features in a two-hour online film uploaded in 2020 with the title 'Dangerous Sexual Predator' - appearing to refer to a description the police made of him when convicted four years earlier.
The footage features an often bare-chested Jhaj driving around in a 4x4 vehicle filmed on a dashboard camera, with a regular flurry of young - often female - passengers joining him.
In one section a young male passenger asks, 'What do you work as?', with Jhaj smirking as he replies: 'Do a few things, bruv, don't worry about it.'
He is heard describing one female passenger as looking 'like a young Keira Knightley', while another schoolgirl protests she cannot get out of his vehicle 'because the teachers will see'.
In this week's Disneyland stunt, 200 adult guests and 100 children aged five to 15 had been hired online for what was bizarrely advertised as a 'chic and elegant' 'rehearsal' wedding, Le Parisien reported.
They were allegedly paid €200 each and had to 'enter the room, sit down, stand up, applaud and participate naturally and elegantly in this event filmed in a festive and classy atmosphere'.
But organisers had booked the park for a function they said would be a genuine wedding ceremony.
Police arrived and took the man into custody along with the girl's 41-year-old mother.
The 'groom' - who the mother allegedly said was a 'friend' - later told police the aim had been to make a video for social media.
The Meaux prosecutors said four people were questioned, the groom, believed to be the British organiser of the event, the mother of the child, a 41-year-old Ukrainian woman; and two Latvian nationals aged 55 and 24.'
The 55-year-old man has claimed he was recruited to play the role of the bride's father for 12,000 euros but discovered last minute she was nine years old, local news reports.
The prosecutor's statement added 'police custody of the British suspect and a Latvian national was also extended on charges of fraud and money laundering'.
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