A convicted paedophile who organised a huge film set explosion near London’s O2 Arena has gloried on camera about being branded a ‘dangerous sexual predator’.
Sex offender Jacky Jhaj was filmed naked as a blast was triggered using gun powder and a detonation cord, only for it to spiral out of control and send the roof of a police van 50ft in the air in Silvertown in Newham, east London, last Saturday.
Jhaj was previously jailed for four years in 2016 for having sexual activity with two 15-year-old girls, after supplying his victims with alcohol and took them to parties in Hounslow, west London, in his silver Range Rover.
It has now emerged how the serial prankster, 38, 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 4×4 vehicle filmed on a dashboard camera, with a regular flurry of young – often female – passengers joining him.
Convicted paedophile Jacky Jhaj, 38, features in a two-hour film uploaded online called ‘Dangerous Sexual Predator’, in which he is seen at the wheel of a car
Jhaj, 38, was filmed at Silvertown in Newham, east London, on Saturday in a film set explosion which terrified locals and prompted about 100 calls to the London Fire Brigade
Newham Council has said it did not give permission for last Saturday night’s stunt
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 the latest incident involving Jhaj, from Feltham in west London, he was filming a scene entirely naked for a production dubbed ‘Project Dover’ – which involved a van with BBC World branding being set alight.
Jhaj 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 the convicted criminal was apparently allowed to perform his terrifying stunt last Saturday so publicly.
When abusing his two 15-year-old victims, Jhaj had pretended he was 21 and a top Hollywood producer before assaulting them.
And he has continued to be involved in a series of tasteless stunts since his release from jail, including staging a fake funeral.
Jhaj recruited up to 200 children and young women to play adoring fans of his while he hosted a fake movie premiere at Leicester Square in London.
The serial prankster, 38, features in the film uploaded in 2020 with the title ‘Dangerous Sexual Predator’ – a description the police made of him when convicted four years earlier
The footage features an often bare-chested Jhaj driving around in a 4×4 vehicle filmed on a dashboard camera, with a regular flurry of young – often female – passengers joining him
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
He was arrested following the phony movie premiere on suspicion of breaching a sexual harm prevention order and was released on bail.
There was nobody present at Jhaj’s family home last night.
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But neighbours said they had seen him recently, coming and going late at night, and wearing a medical face mask.
Should you loved this information and you want to receive much more information regarding neurocaine powder for sale usa kindly visit the web page. One told the Mail: ‘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, whose real name is Jaskarn Jhaj, is said to have offered significant cash incentives for people to work on his films.
He is said to have offered workers £5,000 instead of their usual £750 fee for help on the explosion stunt, paid £10,000 in advance to undertakers involved in the fake funeral, and is paying privately for a KC to represent him in court.
He is understood to have previous involvement in a real estate firm, although records suggest his tenure in the business was extremely brief and some time ago.
A naked Jacky Jhaj struts in front of a BBC World news lorry as part of a warped stunt in Silvertown, Newham, on Saturday night
Sex offender Jhaj, 38, stood naked and triggered a terrifying explosion by using gun powder and a detonation cord, which sent the roof of a police van 50ft in the air at the open-air yard
The enormous blast left locals terrified with many likening it to a bomb going off or an earthquake
Jhaj is also recorded as being the director of a small IT firm which was dissolved in 2016, around the time he was convicted.
He boasts nearly 1million followers on the Instagram account of his pseudonym, Jilliah.
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The profile has not been updated since January, with his last post containing screenshots suggesting he had breached Instagram’s community guidelines, combined with the caption: ‘The public domain is no place for JILLIAH. Goodbye.’
Other posts contain clips of his music videos, featuring his police mugshot and footage from MPs inside the House of Commons chamber.
Jhaj, who poses as a film producer, faces trial at Isleworth Crown Court on 4 August 2025, for breaching notification requirements and a sexual harm prevention order.
The 38-year-old was arrested in June 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.
He was pictured with a large group of children gathered around him 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.
MailOnline revealed in April how he also used an internationally renowned casting platform Backstage to hire child actors in order to stage an elaborate £10,000 fake funeral at the London Oratory.
One source described last Saturday’s Newham explosion as a ‘complete disaster’
A video posted on Reddit shows a naked Jhaj (circled) casually walking nearby as firefighters battle the searing flames while black smoke billows into the sky
It is understood Jhaj drafted in a different team of special effects technicians from Eastern Europe for the ‘reshoot’ on Saturday night with the set being rigged with ‘high explosives’
The sick hoax a month earlier sparked international media attention when it emerged that the presiding priest had dramatically stopped the service upon realising that 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.
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He was also filmed on 17 October last year with up to 200 children and young women playing his fans during a fake movie premiere at Leicester Square in London.
He was spotted outside the Odeon Luxe cinema, where a red carpet was set up with barricades.
Jhaj could be seen repeatedly parading up and down in different outfits and then greeting some of the extras, in videos and photographs seen by the BBC.
Casting agencies have said actors were kept safe and children had chaperones.
The Metropolitan Police said yesterday it would not be investigating Saturday night’s explosion 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.
Scotland Yard said in a statement: ‘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.
Residents living close to Saturday night’s blast were last night furious as they likened the explosion just across from the Thames to a ‘bomb going off’ and an ‘earthquake’
One resident fumed: ‘This was not planned properly and scared a lot of people and wasted a lot of emergency services time’
The terrifying explosion was triggered by using gun powder and a detonation cord, which sent the roof of a police van 50ft in the air
‘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.’
The force told MailOnline there was no investigation into the event itself.
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Newham Council has now said: ‘We were not given prior notice, nor do we have any record of permission having been sought, for filming on 31 August.
‘We are liaising closely with the London Fire Brigade and have approached the film agency involved.’
The filming was first due to take place on August 24 with Jhaj wearing a ‘grotesque evil villain mask’.
But the special effects and film crew pulled out when Jhaj removed his prosthetic mask and one of the cast recognised who he was. He had been using the name Toby until that point.
Jhaj is said to have offered cash incentives for people to continue, including engineers who he offered £5,000 instead of their usual £750 fee.
A source exclusively told MailOnline: ‘He has apparently got form in terms of setting up fictitious films and things like that, hiding the agenda and his identity from the legitimate and professional businesses and individuals that get booked via a separate production company to carry out the film work.
‘Now we think this one was a giant F U to the BBC, the police and the newspapers for outing him for the offences that he was committed or charged with.’
The remains of a fire damaged BBC World News lorry on a film set next to the river Thames
The BBC said it had no involvement in the event. A spokesman said: ‘There is no BBC News involvement in the events of this evening in docklands’
A BBC branded lorry and police car on a ‘film set’ near the O2 Arena before they were blown up in a planned explosion
It is understood Jhaj drafted in a different team of special effects technicians from Eastern Europe for the ‘reshoot’ on Saturday night with the set being rigged with ‘high explosives’.
But some did not initially fire, MailOnline understands, with a lorry cab exploding two or three minutes after the initial blast and delaying access to the contracted firefighters from tackling the blaze earlier.
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One source described it as a ‘complete disaster’ and said: ‘So that could have been very, very nasty had the fire crew been allowed to get in any closer.
‘So all in all, it was, pardon my French, a bit of a s*** show.’
One video posted on Reddit shows a naked Jhaj casually walking nearby as firefighters battle the searing flames while black smoke billows into the sky
The BBC said: ‘There is no BBC News involvement in the events of this evening in docklands.’
Residents living close to Saturday night’s blast were left furious as they likened the explosion just across from the Thames to a ‘bomb going off’ and an ‘earthquake’.
The blaze sparked mass confusion as the Royal Borough of Greenwich Council had warned residents that there would be a ‘loud explosion’ during filming on the previous Saturday, August 24.
Boat engineers working on the River Thames when the explosion happened said it sounded like a ‘massive bomb going off’.
Jhaj was filmed in October last year with as many as 200 children and young women playing his fans as he hosted a fake movie premiere at Leicester Square, in London
Dozens of child actors as young as six were recruited as supposed film extras dressed in school uniforms for the event
In June, Jhaj was pictured with a large group of children gathered around him and a £3.2million Bugatti Chiron outside dance school The Hub Studios in east London
Jhaj was previously revealed to be behind a fake funeral held at the London Oratory in west London, involving paid actors and an empty coffin
Michael Weston, 56, told MailOnline: ‘It was incredibly loud. I thought it was going to burst my ear drums.
‘Apparently a load of gas canisters exploded. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. It sounded like a bomb going off.’
A London Fire Brigade spokesperson said: ‘The first of four engines from the Brigade responded after Control Officers received multiple calls about a fire in the Silvertown area on Saturday. Firefighters attended and were able to safely extinguish the fire.’
The brigade said it received about 100 calls regarding the blaze and received assistance from other fire rescue services due to the volume of alerts.
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