An Afghan allegedly in prison for migrant smuggling has been boasting about his life behind bars in brazen posts on TikTok.
Samiullah Ahmadzai, 26, has racked up thousands of views on his page, where he shows off his cell at Wormwood Scrubs in Hammersmith, west London.
Videos show Ahmadzai perched on the top bunk of his bed filming Afghan flags he has drawn on the wall before panning to his well-stocked selection of snacks – including chocolate bars, fruit, fizzy drinks and sausages.
While in others the prisoner poses for the camera alongside his cellmate, often captioning his posts with ‘winking’ and ‘laughing’ emojis.
Ahmadzai also has the privilege of a television in his cell. In one clip, he is seen watching Stephen Mulhern’s afternoon television show Deal or No Deal.
The Afghan is being held at the jail for his alleged role in a ‘dangerous’ trafficking gang, and is currently undergoing extradition proceedings over a return to Belgium at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
A source told The Sun of his TikTok page: ‘This is so brazen it’s unbelievable and it’s highly embarrassing for the Prison Service.
‘But they will now take action against him, disable his accounts and his life will become a lot tougher in jail.’
Samiullah Ahmadzai, 26, an alleged migrant trafficker, has racked up thousands of views on his TikTok, where he posts videos about his cushy life inside Wormwood Scrubs
The prisoner appears upbeat and in good spirits in his videos, many of which have been viewed more than 100,000 times
One shows Ahmadzai filming his well stocked selection of snacks – including chocolate bars, fruit, fizzy drinks and sausages
Figures shared by the Home Office earlier this month revealed that a total of 65,922 immigrants have crossed the channel on a small boat under the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer.
That total overtook the tally under Boris Johnson, a feat the Labour leader has managed in just over 19 months.
One of Sir Keir’s first acts in office after the 2024 general election was scrapping the previous government’s Rwanda asylum deal.
The programme had been designed to deter crossings by sending migrants to the east African country to claim asylum there rather than here.
Labour’s flagship policy is a ‘one in, one out’ deal with France which allows a small number of migrants to be sent back across the Channel.
However, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood admitted to MPs earlier this month that the deal has ‘obviously not dented the numbers yet’.
She also revealed that, at that point, 367 migrants had been brought into the UK under the reciprocal terms of the treaty and only 305 have been removed.
The scheme has ‘probably not’ affected migrants’ decisions to cross the Channel, she said, and they ‘may well be banking on it not working or not being able to be scaled up’.
Ahmadzai also has the privilege of a television in his cell. In one clip, he is seen watching Stephen Mulhern’s afternoon television show Deal or No Deal
While in another an Afghan flag which the alleged criminal has drawn on the wall of his cell can be seen
The Afghan is being held at the jail for his alleged role in a ‘dangerous’ trafficking gang
She also declined to give a commitment that Labour’s asylum reforms will start to see a fall in the number of small boat arrivals by next year.
There were 41,472 small boat crossings last year compared with 36,816 in 2024.
Asked whether she could confidently say numbers would go down by this time next year, Ms Mahmood said Labour’s reforms would ‘take some time to come into effect’, adding: ‘I can’t guarantee I’m going to be in that position.’
When PM Sir Keir Starmer and Mr Macron announced their ‘one in, one out’ deal last summer it was suggested it would see 50 migrants a week sent back to France.
It is being operated as a pilot scheme and the agreement is due to expire at the end of June.
The treaty which has allowed the ‘one in, one out’ scheme is unlikely to be renegotiated at that stage, experts suggest, because France will be looking ahead to its presidential election next spring.
