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).
Jaskarn “Jacky” Jhaj is a convicted paedophile wanted by the Met[/caption]
In a sick stunt he faked a marriage in Disneyland Paris with a 9-year-old[/caption]
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.
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.”
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”.
A disturbing advert used to rope in children for the fake wedding[/caption]
A band for the fake guests as the wedding[/caption]
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.”
A massive fireball near the O2 saw black smoke float across the Thames[/caption]
Jhaj (left) walked away from the fire while being naked[/caption]
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.”
