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Scottish Sun
02-07-2025
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- Scottish Sun
Brit paedophile behind fake Disneyland wedding ‘took child bride, 9, and her mum on holiday' before grim ceremony
A CONVICTED Brit paedophile allegedly took a nine-year-old "child bride" and her mum on holiday a year before arranging a grim wedding ceremony. Jacky Jhaj, 39, attempted to marry the young Ukrainian girl in Disneyland last month before the "dangerous sexual predator" was arrested. 6 Convicted Brit paedophile Jacky Jhaj allegedly took his nine-year-old 'child bride' and her mum on holiday Credit: MET Police 6 Jhaj, 39, attempted to marry the young Ukrainian girl in Disneyland last month Credit: 6 His sick plan was foiled by Vitalijs - a former Russian special forces paratrooper Credit: Peter Allen Jhaj reportedly spent over £111,000 on the sick wedding plans as he hired more than 100 actors to play guests at the staged event. One of those recruited through a social media callout was told he would play the 'father' of the bride. Devastated Vitalijs, 54, said he had no idea what he had signed up for prior to turning up in Paris. The former Russian special forces paratrooper was one of the first to raise the alarm about the sickening marriage plot. Vitalijs says one major warning sign of Jhaj's true intentions came after he spoke to the bride-to-be's mum. She revealed the London-born predator had been in constant contact with the family for over a year. Jhaj had spoiled the mum with money and gifts and even paid for a family holiday, Vitalijs claimed. He told The Telegraph: "This Ukrainian woman [the mother] told me that she had known this Jacky for a year. "He paid her money and helped her family. "They went somewhere together to relax, the three of them. I think he won her over with gifts." Massive fireball explosion near O2 arena caused by convicted paedophile who blew up BBC lorry while filming NAKED Vitalijs, who only uses his first name for security reasons, also revealed he was offered £550 to play "the father of the bride". But he was lied to as he signed up to give away the girl's 41-year-old mother. He soon realised inside the theme park the "bride" was instead an underage girl as he immediately refused to be a part of the bizarre act. Vitalijs then hatched a plan to get the ceremony cancelled as he broke into the park without a pass on the morning of the planned event. Vitalijs approached the wedding stage and handed a note to Disney staff, who saw a "scared and confused" child in a big dress with four-inch heels taped to her feet. Staff managed to stop the wedding immediately and called the French cops. Several suspects were arrested within minutes - including Jhaj and the girl's mum. Jean-Baptiste Bladier, the Meaux prosecutor, confirmed the Ukrainian child had not suffered "any violence, neither physical nor sexual" and had "not been forced into playing the bride". The mum was later released without charge but Jhaj was held after being labelled the "mastermind" behind the operations. It was then revealed that he had rented the resort outside of its opening hours to host the fake wedding. His sick acts landed him charges of fraud, breach of trust, money laundering and identity theft. He was also placed under assisted witness status for corruption of a minor. After his arrest, the convicted paedophile told the examining magistrates in Meaux: "I'm just a simple actor who took part in a film shoot". His dark past was soon uncovered as in 2016 Jhaj was found guilty of sexual activity with two 15-year-olds in Britain. The investigation into the fake wedding continues. Who is Jacky Jhaj? CONVICTED paedophile Jacky Jhaj, 39, has been previously jailed in the UK for child sex offences. He was on the run from British authorities at the time of the sick wedding stunt, French prosecutors say. The disgraced director and actor, from Feltham, was jailed in 2016 for four years after being found guilty on four counts of sexual activity with two 15-year-olds. Before his arrest, he drove around the streets of Hounslow, offering girls alcohol and claiming to be a Hollywood film producer. But the convicted paedophile has pulled a string of bizarre stunts since being released from jail. In September 2024, Jhaj staged an explosion using an old BBC truck and Union Jack-draped vehicles packed with explosives, filming himself naked as the blaze spiralled out of control behind him. The incident was reported to be a film production stunt. But it triggered panic, with hundreds of calls flooding emergency services as locals feared a terrorist attack. Residents were not warned beforehand and only found out afterwards through a post on the Borough of Greenwich's official Facebook page. A year before the explosion, footage surfaced of Jhaj mixing with around 200 children and 100 young women at a film shoot in London's Leicester Square. The shoot, which shows some of the children touching Jhaj, took place on October 17, 2023, the BBC revealed at the time. The BBC reported that the organiser of the event - known as "Project BRT" - hired 90 children aged six to 14 from an agency called Jam 200 The production also booked around 100 young women between the ages of 16 to 24 from Uni-versal Extras. 6 A bracelet given to guests at the fake ceremony showed the name 'Jack' as the pretend husband on behalf of paedophile Jacky Credit: Instagram/bfmtv 6 Jhaj was charged with several offences by French police
Scottish Sun
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish 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 Jaskarn "Jacky" Jhaj is a convicted paedophile wanted by the Met Credit: MET Police 9 In a sick stunt he faked a marriage in Disneyland Paris with a 9-year-old Credit: 9 Disneyland is a popular holiday destination for children 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 Jhaj, features in a two-hour film uploaded online called "Dangerous Sexual Predator" 9 Jhaj previously held a similar event in which he hired young girls to pretend to faint as he walked up and down a red carpet in Leicester Square 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 A disturbing advert used to rope in children for the fake wedding Credit: Facebook 9 A band for the fake guests as the wedding Credit: Instagram/bfmtv 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 A massive fireball near the O2 saw black smoke float across the Thames Credit: X 9 Jhaj (left) walked away from the fire while being naked Credit: Twitter/@gale_hunte 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.'
The Irish Sun
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish 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. 9 Jaskarn "Jacky" Jhaj is a convicted paedophile wanted by the Met Credit: MET Police 9 In a sick stunt he faked a marriage in Disneyland Paris with a 9-year-old Credit: 9 Disneyland is a popular holiday destination for children Cops were Around He is currently being held by French cops on fraud, identity theft and money laundering charges. The 39-year-old is a Read more on UK News 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 Benedict Scantlebury, representing the Metropolitan Police, said: 'I can't make any submissions as to the provenance of his wealth. Most read in The Sun '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 Jhaj, features in a two-hour film uploaded online called "Dangerous Sexual Predator" 9 Jhaj previously held a similar event in which he hired young girls to pretend to faint as he walked up and down a red carpet in Leicester Square 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 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 A disturbing advert used to rope in children for the fake wedding Credit: Facebook 9 A band for the fake guests as the wedding Credit: Instagram/bfmtv 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 A massive fireball near the O2 saw black smoke float across the Thames Credit: X 9 Jhaj (left) walked away from the fire while being naked Credit: Twitter/@gale_hunte 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.'
Scottish Sun
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Inside twisted world of Disneyland hoax paedo Jacky Jhaj… from bizarre £100K stunts to who's behind his shady network
The convicted paedophile has revelled in being called a 'Dangerous Sexual Predator' FREAK'S EMPIRE Inside twisted world of Disneyland hoax paedo Jacky Jhaj… from bizarre £100K stunts to who's behind his shady network CONVICTED paedophile Jacky Jhaj is on the run after attempting to 'marry' a nine-year-old Ukranian girl at Disneyland Paris in an elaborate hoax wedding that cost over £100,000. But with a slew of previous expensive, warped stunts - often involving children - behind him, questions are being asked about how the disgraced director and actor from west London is making his money. Advertisement 13 Jacky Jhaj was jailed for underage sexual activity in 2016 but is now on the run Credit: MET Police 13 Alarmed Disney staff called cops when they realised the bride was nine years old in his latest sick stunt Credit: 13 The disturbing advert used to rope in children for the fake wedding Credit: Facebook 13 Guests were given pink bracelets to remember the revolting stunt Credit: Instagram/bfmtv Although Jhaj was jailed for four years in 2016 for grooming and sexually assaulting two 15-year-old schoolgirls, he has managed to mount a series of costly and tasteless hoaxes since being released. He has spent a fortune hiring lavish venues, supercars and innocent children to star as extras for his repulsive pranks, which have included staging a fake funeral. Jhaj, from Fulham, west London, has been charged for offences including fraud, abuse of trust, handling stolen goods and money laundering. But questions remain unanswered about how exactly he has managed to amass the cash to produce a slick two hour film, and who is footing the wage bill for the huge casts and professional crews he employs. Advertisement The Disneyland stunt alone cost thousands of pounds. The fee for hiring the grounds of the iconic Sleeping Beauty castle for a wedding is £111,000. Plus he paid for luxury private coaches to transport the unwitting 'wedding guests' the 70 mile round trip from the centre of Paris. And in another big budget stunt last summer serial predator Jhaj, 39, blew up police vehicles and a BBC lorry - and walked away naked as the blaze spiralled out of control. Advertisement He has also produced and starred in a dark movie called Dangerous Sexual Predator - leaving onlookers wondering how an unemployed convicted criminal could possibly fund such elaborate projects. This week X users were demanding to know where Jhaj gets his cash from. Massive fireball explosion near O2 arena caused by convicted paedophile who blew up BBC lorry while filming NAKED One user posted: "How does he fund all of this? Seems a very obvious q." Another asked: "Where has the money been coming from for this?? What team is behind arranging the logistics etc. surely there's more to this." Advertisement Among his entourage in Paris last weekend were three other people who were also arrested – the child's mum, a 41-year-old Ukrainian woman; a 24-year-old Latvian woman who played the role of the bride's sister, and a 55-year-old Latvian man who also took part in the sickening ceremony. 13 Jhaj appeared in a two-hour film uploaded online called Dangerous Sexual Predator And then there is a woman named Christelle Ka, who bills herself as an 'actor and TV host' and runs a firm called Cristal Communications. She posted the extraordinary Facebook advert recruiting actors as young as five years old for the depraved wedding. Advertisement But her link to Jhaj remains unclear. Kids between the age of five and 15 were offered 200 euros each to take part in the 'high end wedding rehearsal'. 13 Last year Jhaj blew up police cars and a BBC bus - and walked away naked Credit: Twitter/@hannah_moss_01 And Jhaj was somehow able to pay for musicians, a wedding cake, and the cost of hiring chairs for hundreds of guests. Advertisement To help stage his previous stunts he has also forked out for vehicles including a £3.2 million Bugatti Chirson and recruited teams of well paid explosive experts. Last August Jhaj flew in special effects technicians from Eastern Europe to help stage a terrifying explosion near the 02 in east London, using the name Toby. But when he removed his 'grotesque evil villain' prosthetic mask, one of the film crew recognised him and pulled out. Frantic Jhaj offered cash incentives for the team to carry on - agreeing to pay engineers £5,000 instead of their usual £750 fee for the day. Advertisement 13 The massive fireball explosion near the O2 arena sparked panic Credit: Twitter/@gale_hunte 13 Hundreds of terrified local residents called 999, fearing a bomb had exploded Credit: X Dozens of firefighters were called to tackle the blaze as it spiralled out of control, and questions remain over how the convicted criminal was apparently allowed to perform his terrifying stunt so publicly. He had obtained a filming permit from the Royal Borough of Greenwich council, thought to have cost around £10,000 for the day. Advertisement The huge blast was triggered by using gun powder and a detonation cord. Cars draped in Union Jack flags, a police car, police van and a BBC World News branded lorry all exploded in a fireball. The roof of the police van was sent flying 50 feet into the air, and the London Fire Brigade said it received around 100 emergency calls in response to the incident. As plumes of smoke billowed into the sky, Jhaj was seen casually walking away completely naked, smoking a cigarette. Advertisement Million-pound supercars Just months before the huge explosion, Jhaj and his backers rented a Bugatti Chiron supercar worth £3.2 million. Then they paid a large group of children to gather round him outside The Hub Studios in east London. They were rewarded with golden envelopes and even a necklace which Jhaj dished out to the crowd. Two months earlier he had used a well known international casting platform called Backstage to hire yet more child actors in order to stage an elaborate £10,000 fake funeral at the London Oratory. Advertisement 13 Thousands were spent on paid actors and a fake coffin 13 Jhaj, who is on the sex offenders register, managed to stage a glitzy red carpet event In 2023, disturbing footage surfaced of Jhaj mixing with around 200 children and 100 young women at a bogus film shoot in London's Leicester Square. Dozens of child actors as young as six were recruited as supposed film extras dressed in school uniforms for the event. Advertisement The cast was requested to wear a range of costumes which included "Clubbing High School Uniform", a "Harry Potter type look (came straight from school)" and "PJs". Jhaj held the event outside the Odeon Luxe cinema, where a professional looking red carpet was set up with barricades. 13 Jhaj hired young girls to pretend to faint as he walked up and down a red carpet 13 The shocking moment the convicted paedo mingled with kids Credit: BBC Advertisement 13 Kids as young as six years old were paid to join the throng Credit: BBC The organiser of the event - known as "Project BRT" - hired 90 children aged six to 14 from an agency called Jam 200. The production also booked around 100 young women between the ages of 16 to 24 from Universal Extras. Dozens of child actors as young as six were recruited as supposed film extras dressed in school uniforms for the event Advertisement Before his recent stunts the serial prankster featured bare chested in a two hour movie, in which he appeared to glory in the description given to him by police. 'Dangerous Sexual Predator' When he was arrested in 2016 for grooming and sexually assaulting two schoolgirls, cops referred to Jhaj as "a dangerous sexual predator." He drove around the streets of Hounslow in a silver Range Rover, claiming to be a 21-year-old Hollywood film producer and offering teenagers alcohol. And yet, four years later he somehow managed to amass the funds to produce a film featuring himself, often bare-chested, driving around with a series of young female passengers. Advertisement Prosecutors confirmed on Tuesday that Jhaj is known in the UK "for sexual offences against minors". He was found guilty of four counts of sexual activity with two underage girls at Isleworth Crown Court, and later found guilty of handling stolen goods. He was jailed for four years for all the offences together. After his conviction, Detective Constable Nav Johal, the investigating officer from Hounslow CID, said: "Thanks to the courage and bravery of the young vulnerable victims who gave evidence, a dangerous sexual predator has been brought to justice. Advertisement 'I am hopeful that the verdict and sentencing will give them some peace and closure, and they will be able to, in time, move forward from this difficult period."
The Irish Sun
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Inside twisted world of Disneyland hoax paedo Jacky Jhaj… from bizarre £100K stunts to who's behind his shady network
CONVICTED paedophile Jacky Jhaj is on the run after attempting to 'marry' a nine-year-old Ukranian girl at Disneyland Paris in an elaborate hoax wedding that cost over £100,000. But with a slew of previous expensive, warped stunts - often involving children - behind him, questions are being asked about how the 13 Jacky Jhaj was jailed for underage sexual activity in 2016 but is now on the run Credit: MET Police 13 Alarmed Disney staff called cops when they realised the bride was nine years old in his latest sick stunt Credit: 13 The disturbing advert used to rope in children for the fake wedding Credit: Facebook 13 Guests were given pink bracelets to remember the revolting stunt Credit: Instagram/bfmtv Although Jhaj was jailed for four years in 2016 for grooming and sexually assaulting two 15-year-old schoolgirls, he has managed to mount a He has spent a fortune hiring lavish venues, supercars and innocent children to star as extras for his repulsive pranks, which have included staging a fake funeral. Jhaj, from Fulham, west London, has been charged for offences including fraud, abuse of trust, handling stolen goods and money laundering. But questions remain unanswered about how exactly he has managed to amass the cash to produce a slick two hour film, and who is footing the wage bill for the huge casts and professional crews he employs. READ MORE FEATURES The Disneyland stunt alone cost thousands of pounds. The fee for hiring the grounds of the iconic Sleeping Beauty castle for a wedding is £111,000. Plus he paid for luxury private coaches to transport the unwitting 'wedding guests' the 70 mile round trip from the centre of Paris. And in another big budget stunt last summer serial predator Jhaj, 39, blew up police vehicles and a BBC lorry - and walked away naked as the blaze spiralled out of control. Most read in The Sun He has also produced and starred in a dark movie called Dangerous Sexual Predator - leaving onlookers wondering how an unemployed convicted criminal could possibly fund such elaborate projects. This week X users were demanding to know where Jhaj gets his cash from. Massive fireball explosion near O2 arena caused by convicted paedophile who blew up BBC lorry while filming NAKED One user posted: "How does he fund all of this? Seems a very obvious q." Another asked: "Where has the money been coming from for this?? What team is behind arranging the logistics etc. surely there's more to this." Among his entourage in Paris last weekend were three other people who were also arrested – the child's mum, a 41-year-old Ukrainian woman; a 24-year-old Latvian woman who played the role of the bride's sister, and a 55-year-old Latvian man who also took part in the sickening ceremony. 13 Jhaj appeared in a two-hour film uploaded online called Dangerous Sexual Predator And then there is a woman named Christelle Ka, who bills herself as an 'actor and TV host' and runs a firm called Cristal Communications. She posted the But her link to Jhaj remains unclear. Kids between the age of five and 15 were offered 200 euros each to take part in the 'high end wedding rehearsal'. 13 Last year Jhaj blew up police cars and a BBC bus - and walked away naked Credit: Twitter/@hannah_moss_01 And Jhaj was somehow able to pay for musicians, a wedding cake, and the cost of hiring chairs for hundreds of guests. To help stage his previous stunts he has also forked out for vehicles including a £3.2 million Bugatti Chirson and recruited teams of well paid explosive experts. Last August Jhaj flew in special effects technicians from Eastern Europe to help stage a terrifying explosion near the 02 in east London, using the name Toby. But when he removed his 'grotesque evil villain' prosthetic mask, one of the film crew recognised him and pulled out. Frantic Jhaj offered cash incentives for the team to carry on - agreeing to pay engineers £5,000 instead of their usual £750 fee for the day. 13 The massive fireball explosion near the O2 arena sparked panic Credit: Twitter/@gale_hunte 13 Hundreds of terrified local residents called 999, fearing a bomb had exploded Credit: X Dozens of firefighters were called to tackle the blaze as it spiralled out of control, and questions remain over how the convicted criminal was apparently allowed to perform his terrifying stunt so publicly. He had obtained a filming permit from the Royal Borough of Greenwich council, thought to have cost around £10,000 for the day. The huge blast was triggered by using gun powder and a detonation cord. Cars draped in Union Jack flags, a police car, police van and a BBC World News branded lorry all exploded in a fireball. The roof of the police van was sent flying 50 feet into the air, and the London Fire Brigade said it received around 100 emergency calls in response to the incident. As plumes of smoke billowed into the sky, Jhaj was seen casually walking away completely naked, smoking a cigarette. Million-pound supercars Just months before the huge explosion, Jhaj and his backers rented a Bugatti Chiron supercar worth £3.2 million. Then they paid a large group of children to gather round him outside The Hub Studios in east London. They were rewarded with golden envelopes and even a necklace which Jhaj dished out to the crowd. Two months earlier he had used a well known international casting platform called Backstage to hire yet more child actors in order to stage an elaborate £10,000 fake funeral at the London Oratory. 13 Thousands were spent on paid actors and a fake coffin 13 Jhaj, who is on the sex offenders register, managed to stage a glitzy red carpet event In 2023, disturbing Dozens of child actors as young as six were recruited as supposed film extras dressed in school uniforms for the event. The cast was requested to wear a range of costumes which included "Clubbing High School Uniform", a " Jhaj held the event outside the Odeon Luxe cinema, where a professional looking red carpet was set up with barricades. 13 Jhaj hired young girls to pretend to faint as he walked up and down a red carpet 13 The shocking moment the convicted paedo mingled with kids Credit: BBC 13 Kids as young as six years old were paid to join the throng Credit: BBC The organiser of the event - known as "Project BRT" - hired 90 children aged six to 14 from an agency called Jam 200. The production also booked around 100 young women between the ages of 16 to 24 from Universal Extras. Dozens of child actors as young as six were recruited as supposed film extras dressed in school uniforms for the event Before his recent stunts the serial prankster featured bare chested in a two hour movie, in which he appeared to glory in the description given to him by police. 'Dangerous Sexual Predator' When he was arrested in 2016 for grooming and sexually assaulting two schoolgirls, cops referred to Jhaj as "a dangerous sexual predator." He drove around the streets of Hounslow in a silver Range Rover, claiming to be a 21-year-old Hollywood film producer and offering teenagers alcohol. And yet, four years later he somehow managed to amass the funds to produce a film featuring himself, often bare-chested, driving around with a series of young female passengers. Prosecutors confirmed on Tuesday that Jhaj is known in the UK "for sexual offences against minors". He was found guilty of four counts of sexual activity with two underage girls at Isleworth Crown Court, and later found guilty of handling stolen goods. He was jailed for four years for all the offences together. After his conviction, Detective Constable Nav Johal, the investigating officer from Hounslow CID, said: "Thanks to the courage and bravery of the young vulnerable victims who gave evidence, a dangerous sexual predator has been brought to justice. 'I am hopeful that the verdict and sentencing will give them some peace and closure, and they will be able to, in time, move forward from this difficult period."
