Film producer and author Jemima Khan accused Scotland Yard yesterday night of disregarding demonstrators’ alarming threats to break into her bedroom.
Dozens of raucous protestors routinely congregate outside Ormeley Lodge, the boyhood home of Ms. Khan near Richmond Park in South-West London, in opposition to her ex-husband Imran Khan.
In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Ms. Khan disclosed that grave threats were made against her and her children during the various demonstrations over the previous eight months.
Ms. Khan, 48, made a direct appeal to the Metropolitan Police to do more to protect her family following last week’s failed attempt to assassinate her ex-husband in Pakistan.
Mr. Khan, a 70-year-old former cricket star and Pakistani prime minister, was wounded in the upper thigh and lower leg during a rally in Punjab province on Thursday.
Despite the fact that the couple divorced in 2004, Ms. Khan and her family have become the target of heated demonstrations in London by followers of Mr. Khan’s political opponent Nawaz Sharif.
In April, just after Mr. Khan was removed as prime minister, a message surfaced online inciting a throng to meet outside ‘Jemima’s House’ in Richmond, according to the Mail on Sunday.
The message contained an ominous image of the Khans’ two sons, Sulaiman and Kasim, both in their twenties, as well as another family member with a red cross through his or her head.
During the April 17 demonstration, a man with a bullhorn threatened to break into Ms. Khan’s 88-year-old mother Lady Annabel Goldsmith’s 18th-century Georgian home.
The man, addressing a mob of more than 50 protestors, stated that demonstrators may “climb over the walls of your homes and into your bedrooms.”
In another video uploaded to TikTok, two protesters dance outside a house while making sexually provocative gestures.
After the protest, Ms. Khan provided officers with a transcript of the threats made against her family. She maintains that no action has been taken.
She stated, “A group of individuals gather weekly outside my mother’s home and threaten me and my children by name, stating they will “break into my bedroom” – and seemingly nothing can be done to stop it because the threats are made in a foreign language that the police do not understand…
I called the Met Police… over six months ago to explain the nature of the threats, which also exist online, and they promised to follow up, but I have heard nothing since.
The Urdu threats persist outside my mother’s residence. Given the attempted assassination of my ex-husband and the father of my children, I hope that the police will now take threats from his political opponents more seriously.
The April 17 demonstration was attended by approximately twenty police officers, but no arrests were made. There have been online reports that officers ate biryani curry served by the protesters.
The Metropolitan Police stated, “Officers were present following a demonstration. Later, the gang dispersed. The food was obtained from a neighboring food truck serving hot meals, but they had leftovers after the event concluded and offered it to the officers.