"He always seems sheepish when I see him"
Convicted paedophile Jacky Jhaj, who organised the explosion near London’s O2 Arena, boasted on camera about being branded a “dangerous sexual predator”.
A blast was triggered using gunpowder and a detonation cord, only for it to get out of control and send the roof of a police van 50 feet in the air.
Jhaj was filming the stunt completely naked.
He was sitting 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 remain over how Jhaj was supposedly allowed to perform the stunt so publicly.
Jacky Jhaj was jailed for four years in 2016 after being found guilty of sexual activity with two 15-year-old girls.
After falsely claiming he was 21 and a Hollywood producer, Jhaj supplied them with alcohol and took them to parties in Hounslow.
It has now emerged that Jhaj features in a two-hour online film uploaded in 2020 with the title Dangerous Sexual Predator – appearing to refer to a police description of him.
The footage features a bare-chested Jhaj driving around in an SUV while young – often female – passengers join him.
At one point, a male passenger asks:
“What do you work as?”
A smirking Jhaj replies: “Do a few things, bruv, don’t worry about it.”
He describes 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”.
Since his release from prison, Jacky Jhaj has been involved in a series of tasteless stunts.
One neighbour who lived near his family home said:
“I last saw Jacky here a couple of months ago. He always seems sheepish when I see him, probably as everyone on the road knows what he was convicted of.
“I don’t really speak to his parents, they keep themselves to themselves.
“They are older and to be honest it’s likely they haven’t even heard about what happened with Jacky at the weekend.”
Jhaj is said to have offered significant cash incentives for people to work on his films.
For the O2 stunt, he is believed to have offered workers £5,000 instead of their usual £750 fee.
Jhaj faces trial at Isleworth Crown Court on August 4, 2025, for breaching notification requirements and a sexual harm prevention order.
He was arrested in June 2024 on suspicion of breaching a sexual harm prevention order after he was accused of attending a casting session with children where he videoed and photographed them.
Jhaj was pictured with a large group of children and a £3.2million Bugatti Chiron outside dance school The Hub Studios in east London, where he is said to have got them to cheer for him as he gave them golden envelopes and even a necklace.
In April 2024, Jhaj used the renowned casting platform Backstage to hire child actors to stage a £10,000 fake funeral at the London Oratory.
The presiding priest had stopped the service after realising it was being filmed, that the mourners were paid actors and the coffin was empty.
Jhaj paid for a horse-drawn hearse to carry the empty coffin.
On October 17, 2023, Jhaj was filmed with up to 200 children and young women posing as fans during a fake film premiere at Leicester Square.
The Met Police said it would not be investigating the explosion near the O2 Arena further but would carry out an internal review to improve how it shares public information about such incidents, after complaints from neighbours over not being warned.
In a statement, the Met said: “The Met was made aware of the pre-planned filming, including the use of explosives, prior to the event taking place on the evening of Saturday, 31 August.
“It appears this information was not disseminated as widely as it should have been and we are looking at the systems currently in place to establish why this was the case in this instance.”
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