TikToker who posted pro-Palestine mouse stunt at a McDonald’s restaurant online DENIES responsibility as police continue investigation

• Aamir Khan, 32, told MailOnline he had been sent the clip of the incident
• Mr Khan’s TikTok and Instagram accounts have now been deleted
• Police have launched an investigation to trace the person who emptied the box 

The riddle over who was behind the pro-Palestine mouse stunt at a McDonald’s restaurant deepened today when the man who originally posted a video of the incident denied responsibility.

Former limousine hire company worker and convicted fraudster Aamir Khan, 32, told MailOnline he had been sent the clip of the incident at the restaurant in Birmingham’s Star City entertainment complex on Monday evening anonymously. 

His brother Zahid, a fugitive who fled to Dubai before the pair were convicted over an exclusive car number plate scam five years ago, told us Mr Khan had merely reposted the clip on TikTok which then went viral.

Mr Khan’s TikTok and Instagram accounts – where friends congratulated him on the stunt – have now been deleted and police have launched an investigation to trace the person who emptied a box full of live mice painted in the colours of the Palestinian flag onto the floor of the restaurant.

In the clip, a man wearing a Palestinian flag around his head is seen lifting a box out of the boot of a BMW carrying a number plate spelling ‘PAIISTN’. 

He then walks into the busy restaurant and dumps the spray-painted rodents on the floor – causing customers standing near the food order screens to run away in shock.

Former limousine hire company worker and convicted fraudster Aamir Khan, 32, (pictured) told MailOnline he had been sent the clip of the incident at the restaurant in Birmingham ‘s Star City entertainment complex on Monday evening anonymously

Mr Khan’s TikTok and Instagram accounts – where friends congratulated him on the stunt – have now been deleted and police have launched an investigation to find the person who emptied a box full of live mice

Police have launched an investigation to trace the person who emptied a box full of live mice painted in the colours of the Palestinian flag onto the floor of the restaurant

Mr Khan’s Instagram page included numerous pictures of him posing on the driveway of what was once the Khan family home in Moseley, Birmingham, one as recently as a fortnight ago.

Neighbours said the address, once said to house an indoor swimming pool, has been turned into a house of multiple occupancy but was still within the Khan family. Land Registry documents show it was bought by a Basharaf Khan in March.

One neighbour said Aamir Khan still visited regularly, adding: ‘I saw him go off with friends recently in a blue Range Rover’. Another said he had noticed a Palestinian flag in the porch of the property just a matter of days ago, while a tenant at the address said she believed he kept a first floor flat there.

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Occupants at the address also recognised pictures of Mr Khan, with one tenant saying: ‘His name is Aamir and he is the owner. He comes around in the evenings sometimes.’

A Vauxhall Corsa said to belong to Mr Khan was amongst the vehicles parked in the gated driveway this afternoon.

Neighbours at another address linked to the Khan family in the Hall Green suburb said Aaamir sometimes ‘turned up at the wheel of a supercar’ to visit the occupants.

Mr Khan’s Instagram page suggested he worked at Royal Limos, a luxury hire car company in the city. 

But a man answering the phone at the limo company claimed Mr Khan left the firm four years ago, and now had a loose relationship whereby he was paid commission for attracting customers through publishing the firm’s vehicles on his social media.

The man, who called himself Adam, denied having anything to do with the McDonald’s incident.

When he was contacted via social media, Mr Khan said the McDonald’s video was ‘sent to me anonymously so I don’t know who did it.’

In 2018, Birmingham Crown Court heard Zahid Khan was the ringleader of a West Midlands gang – which included his brothers Aamir Khan and Ayan Ahmed plus cousin Zubair Ahmad – who stole the rights to high-value personalised registration plates and sold them on for tens of thousands of pounds.

Footage posted on social media shows dozens of mice that have been painted green, black, white and red, representing the four colours that make up the Palestinian flag as police investigate 

Mr Khan’s (pictured) Instagram page suggested he worked at Royal Limos, a luxury hire car company in the city

Mr Khan’s (pictured) Instagram page included numerous pictures of him posing on the driveway of what was once the Khan family home in Moseley, Birmingham, one as recently as a fortnight ago

When he was contacted via social media, Mr Khan (pictured) said the McDonald’s video was ‘sent to me anonymously so I don’t know who did it’

Just days before the trial was due to finish Zahid, then 31, fled the country. He was given a 10-year prison sentence after being found guilty in his absence.

The jury in June failed to reach a verdict on his three co-defendants, but all were found unanimously guilty of conspiracy to commit fraud after another trial.

Zahid went on to taunt police and the judge from his Dubai bolthole, where he posted videos of himself carousing with rapper Busta Rhymes at a VIP party.

Speaking to MailOnline from Dubai via WhatsApp yesterday, Zahid said his brother had only reposted a video he had been sent.

West Midlands Police said was treating the McDonald’s incident as a ‘public nuisance offence’.

The force added in a statement: ‘We understand the distress this will have caused and it’s not acceptable in any circumstances…we’ve active lines on enquiries to identify, and then arrest, who was involved’.

McDonald’s confirmed last night that a ‘number of mice’ were released into the restaurant and it insisted the branch, now reopened, was ‘fully sanitised’ after the rodents were removed.

The one-man protest is part of wider calls to boycott McDonald’s – who have offered free meals to IDF soldiers – along with Starbucks and Disney, for allegedly favouring Israel during the ongoing conflict.

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