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India Today
a day ago
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- India Today
British man arrested in Disneyland for staging fake wedding with 9-year-old girl
A man named Jaskarn Jhaj, alias Jacky Jhaj, who is a British citizen, has been arrested at Disneyland in Paris for allegedly organising a mock wedding involving a nine-year-old Ukrainian 39-year-old was previously found guilty of sexual activity with two 15-year-old girls in 2016 in was arrested last week when police were called by a 55-year-old actor who said he had been hired by Jhaj to play the father of the bride. The police stated that the British national used a false identity from Latvia along with forged documents to arrange the He was charged with fraud, breach of trust, money laundering and identity theft, according to French paid GBP 111,000 (approximately Rs 1.21 crore) to stage the vile fake event at the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty castle, featuring musicians, a cake, and chairs for hundreds of "guests", according to the UK's Daily to police sources in Paris, Jhaj, pretending to be the 22-year-old "groom", enlisted professional makeup artists to alter his appearance, The Daily Mail to media reports, he was planning to create a video for his social media was presented before a judge in Meaux, northeast of Paris, on Monday, where he faced charges including fraud, breach of trust, identity theft, and money laundering. He is currently being held in JAILED FOR CHILD SEX OFFENCEadvertisementThe London Metropolitan Police said the suspect was wanted in Britain for breaching court orders relating to previous child sex offending, according to a report in New York Times (NYT).In 2016, Jhaj was sentenced to four years in prison for sexual activity with two teenagers and handed an order restricting his activities on release. In a statement at the time, the Metropolitan Police said he had driven around schools in Hounslow, a neighbourhood of West London, trying to pick up girls by claiming he was a Hollywood film producer and offering them alcohol, NYT Bladier, the Meaux prosecutor, said that the girl had not been "forced into the role".MOTHER WANTED HER DAUGHTER TO FEEL LIKE A DISNEY PRINCESSThe nine-year-old girl attended the fake event with her mother, both of whom are Ukrainian nationals who arrived in France two days prior. A medical examination later confirmed that the child had not been physically or sexually harmed and showed no signs of being coerced into girl's mother, who was also arrested, had reportedly said she wanted her daughter to feel like a Disney "princess" for the day, according to Germany-based news channel June 2024, Jhaj was again arrested after being seen speaking to young girls outside a casting session at a dance school in east London, and taking videos and photos without their parents' consent, NYT reported.- Ends
The Sun
a day ago
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- The Sun
Mystery of Disneyland ‘child marriage' paedo Jacky Jhaj's hidden fortune as not even COPS know how he funds sick stunts
COPS still don't know how the convicted paedo who staged a 'fake wedding' to a nine-year-old girl at Disneyland Paris is paying for his sick stunts, a court heard today. Jaskarn "Jacky" Jhaj's bizarre mock marriage involved booking out part of the theme park and is believed to have cost him more than €130,000 (£110,000). 9 9 9 Cops were called to the vile event on Saturday by an actor hired to play the dad of the nine-year-old Ukrainian bride flown out two days before the vile "wedding". Around 100 extras had been hired to pose as congregation members, with the wedding thought to have been filmed by wannabe director Jhaj. He is currently being held by French cops on fraud, identity theft and money laundering charges. The 39-year-old is a convicted paedophile currently wanted by Scotland Yard for breaching court orders imposed when he was caged for four years in 2016 for molesting two 15-year-old girls. Jhaj, who changed his name by deed poll last August to 'London JA', was last seen leaving the UK for Milan in November. This morning, cops told a judge at Isleworth Crown Court in West London that the creep organised fake movie shoots and a Leicester Square film premiere costing thousands of pounds to get close to underage girls. But the authorities - who were at court to beef-up a sexual harm prevention order aimed at stopping Jhaj from having contact with kids - still have no idea how the fame-obsessed paedo is funding his stunts. Benedict Scantlebury, representing the Metropolitan Police, said: 'I can't make any submissions as to the provenance of his wealth. 'But he's a man who clearly seems to have the ability to draw on significant sums of money and he's willing to use that money to spend hundreds of thousands.' He had registered multiple firms with Companies House to arrange and pay for his films, naming as directors people who 'do not appear to be genuine'. Mr Scantlebury said the police wanted to close a loophole in Jhaj's existing sexual harm prevention order that meant he could hire child actors for his stunts as long as they are accompanied by a chaperone. Moment convicted paedophile wandering street with girl, 6, is snared by cops His long history of bizarre stunts includes renting out the Odeon in Leicester Square for a fake film premiere in October 2023, hiring hundreds of kids to act as his fawning fans. Some of the children, who had been hired from casting agencies, were in primary school. Teen girls said they'd been asked to scream for him and try to touch him. Two years earlier - in 2021 - cops were called over concerns about his behaviour towards a 'young girl' on set. A 999 caller told police Jhaj 'tried to get himself and the female actress in a room together', adding that he left in a hurry saying 'I think I'm about to get arrested.' 9 9 A trailer from the film - shown to the court this morning - showed Jhaj apparently firing a machine gun from the top of an armoured car at National Trust-owned mansion Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire. Jhaj hired around 100 mourners to attend a fake funeral at Brompton Cemetery, West London, in March 2024. He'd booked using a fake name and the actors - including young girls - were unaware he was a sex offender. Three months later, in June, he pulled up in a rented Bugatti supercar outside a dance school in Tower Hamlets, East London, handing out gifts to the students, aged between eight and 14. Jhaj had hired a choreographer to go into the school earlier in the day and hold auditions for another fake production. Then in August 2024 he staged a bizarre shoot near the O2 that saw him blow up a mocked-up BBC News-branded lorry while completely naked. Firefighters were called to the massive blast. On Friday, the court was told: 'The crew did not know that he would be naked during the shoot, and one of the drone operators filming the shoot had his children present at the scene.' Jhaj is suspected of uploading videos from his stunts online using anonymous bot accounts on social media sites. Giving evidence at Isleworth Crown Court this morning, Detective Constable Andy Hawes of the Metropolitan Police said he had 'no doubt' the sicko was also responsible for a two hour YouTube video from 2020 showing the topless pervert driving around picking up girls outside schools. One of the girls was in school uniform. The dash cam-shot video described Jhaj in a title card as a 'dangerous sexual predator' and it promised: 'This footage has never before been seen. Until now.' DC Hawes said blowing up a lorry at the O2 was a 'display of defiance towards the authorities'. 9 9 And the other bizarre stunts betrayed his sense of 'gratuitous entitlement'. The detective added: 'He surrounds himself with children. He enjoys their attention. He wants their affection. 'Thankfully, when he has hired casting agencies to provide children it is their legal requirement to provide chaperones.' He said: 'All of the stunts or the most recent ones are done in alias names, some wearing prosthetics, so in the future he can regale these stories to other females without it being linked to his true identity.' On Friday, a judge was told that perv Jhaj has never admitted what he does is wrong and has refused to take part in sex offender workshops aimed at treating his sick obsession with kids. Probation officers have previously flagged him as posing a 'grooming risk to female children' and required him to take polygraph - lie detector - tests, police said. Jhaj, of Feltham, West London, was first convicted in 2016 - when he was jailed for four years for molesting two 15-year-old girls he'd tricked into thinking he was a bigshot film producer. He later staged a video of him allegedly being mobbed by adoring teens - played by actors - while coming out of prison. Last July, he got a let-off £500 fine after he admitted breaching sex offender register notification requirements by failing to tell cops about a new passport. He was last seen by cops in November 2024, when he told officers at Hampstead police station that he would be flying to Munich on November 10 and returning the next day. Jhaj in fact jetted to Milan, Italy, and has not been seen since - although he is currently wanted for breaching court orders. The cop responsible for investigating the paedo producer, DC Hawes, said this morning: 'There have been extensive checks and at borders, airlines, all means of trying to locate Mr Jhaj but no success.' 9 9 He eventually emerged last Saturday, when he was arrested at Disneyland Paris over the sick wedding prank. Mr Hawes told the court: 'This morning, I took a phone call from the National Crime Agency in Paris who stated that Mr Jhaj has been remanded for four months pending a trial. 'He has lodged an application for bail, which has to be heard within 20 days.' On Friday, Judge Martin Edmunds - who said he'd learnt of Jhaj's arrest from news reports - ruled the case could go ahead in his absence. He stressed that the fake wedding in France was not part of the evidence supporting the police's application to extend the Londoner's sexual harm prevention order. But the judge added: 'I am not in a position to determine the rights or wrongs of the events at Disneyland nor do I purport to do so. 'But I do note they appear similar to other attention seeking stunts which are the subject of this application.' He extended the sexual harm prevention order for a decade and updated its requirements, banning Jhaj from unsupervised contact with kids without prior approval from the cops. In his ruling, Judge Edmunds said: 'The total absence of any evidence showing that the defendant is seeking to address appropriately his preoccupation with children means that a lengthy order is necessary.' He added: 'The stunts show absurd, grandiose thinking, access to very substantial funds to feed his attention-seeking behaviour, and persistent work to generate the illusion that he is a film maker.'
BreakingNews.ie
3 days ago
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- BreakingNews.ie
British sex offender charged over 'wedding' with child (9) at Disneyland Paris
UK police officers are in contact with French authorities after a British sex offender was accused of staging a mock wedding with a child bride at Disneyland Paris. Jaskarn 'Jacky' Jhaj (39) is wanted by London's Metropolitan Police for breaching a sexual harm prevention order and a breach of a sex offenders register notification requirement. Advertisement He was placed under supervision after being convicted of sexual activity with two 15-year-old girls in 2016, having driven around Hounslow in west London picking up schoolgirls. Jhaj has staged various bizarre events, including carrying out a controlled explosion of a van near Silvertown, east London in August last year while being filmed naked, and a mock film premiere in 2023 where he appeared alongside around 200 young women and girls. Jhaj is accused of staging a mock wedding with a child bride at Disneyland Paris (Alamy/PA) The Metropolitan Police did not name him, but said: 'A 39-year-old man is wanted by the Met Police for breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and a breach of a Sex Offenders' Register notification requirement. 'We are aware the man has been arrested in France for other matters and officers are in contact with the French authorities.' Advertisement On Tuesday, French prosecutors said a 39-year-old man, who reportedly played the 'groom' in the fake wedding ceremony, faces several counts of fraud, abuse of trust, money laundering and identity theft after his arrest at the entertainment resort in Marne-la-Vallee, France, on Saturday. The bride was a nine-year-old Ukrainian girl who had arrived in France with her 41-year-old mother two days prior to the mock ceremony. Police were called by a 'guest' who later claimed he was hired to play the father of the bride. World Disneyland visitors in shock after dragon show goe... Read More A statement released by the prosecutor of the tribunal in Meaux Jean-Baptiste Bladier said the man 'explained he was paid €12,000 to play the role of the father of the bride and realised at the last minute that she was nine years old'. Advertisement Four people were arrested on Saturday – including the British 'groom', the girl's mother, a 24-year-old Latvian woman who played the sister of the bride, and the 55-year-old Latvian man hired to play the 'father of the bride', the tribunal said. Prosecutors added Disneyland Paris was 'deceived' after the identity of a Latvian man and fake identification documents were used to secure the private event at the park, and that about a hundred hired extras were falsely presented to the company as wedding guests.
Daily Mail
3 days ago
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- Daily Mail
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'.
The Independent
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Independent
UK police in contact with French after Briton charged over Disneyland ‘wedding'
UK police officers are in contact with French authorities after a British sex offender was accused of staging a mock wedding with a child bride at Disneyland Paris. Jaskarn 'Jacky' Jhaj, 39, is wanted by the Metropolitan Police for breaching a sexual harm prevention order and a breach of a sex offenders register notification requirement. He was placed under supervision after being convicted of sexual activity with two 15-year-old girls in 2016, having driven around Hounslow picking up schoolgirls. Jhaj has staged various bizarre events, including carrying out a controlled explosion of a van near Silvertown, east London in August last year while being filmed naked, and a mock film premiere in 2023 where he appeared alongside around 200 young women and girls. The Metropolitan Police did not name him, but said: 'A 39-year-old man is wanted by the Met Police for breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and a breach of a Sex Offenders' Register notification requirement. 'We are aware the man has been arrested in France for other matters and officers are in contact with the French authorities.' On Tuesday, French prosecutors said a 39-year-old man, who reportedly played the 'groom' in the fake wedding ceremony, faces several counts of fraud, abuse of trust, money laundering and identity theft after his arrest at the entertainment resort in Marne-la-Vallee, France, on Saturday. The bride was a nine-year-old Ukrainian girl who had arrived in France with her 41-year-old mother two days prior to the mock ceremony. Police were called by a 'guest' who later claimed he was hired to play the father of the bride. A statement released by the prosecutor of the tribunal in Meaux Jean-Baptiste Bladier said the man 'explained he was paid 12,000 euros (£10,000) to play the role of the father of the bride and realised at the last minute that she was nine years old'. Four people were arrested on Saturday – including the British 'groom', the girl's mother, a 24-year-old Latvian woman who played the sister of the bride, and the 55-year-old Latvian man hired to play the 'father of the bride', the tribunal said. Prosecutors added Disneyland Paris was 'deceived' after the identity of a Latvian man and fake identification documents were used to secure the private event at the park, and that about a hundred hired extras were falsely presented to the company as wedding guests.
