GB News presenter Patrick Christys was ordered by police to abandon his home in the middle of the night after a credible death threat from the Channel people-smuggling gangs he continues to expose in Calais.
The threat-to-life notice from the Metropolitan Police left Christys and his heavily pregnant wife, fellow GB News presenter Emily Carver, packing bags and fleeing to a safe house. One of the men he confronted later turned up on a London street.
A year on, the official warning remains in place and the family still has round-the-clock security.
Christys has spent years on the front line documenting the illegal migrant invasion. In May 2025 he delivered one of the most blunt on-the-ground interviews yet from the Calais camps, capturing the entitlement culture driving the crossings.
That same determination took him back to northern France last July. He found the gangs advertising openly on TikTok, then switching to WhatsApp to discuss prices, times and locations. Authorities did little. So Christys and a camera crew went and confronted them themselves.
You need to hear this. Patrick Christys went to a migrant shelter and asked why so many choose the UK over other countries like France. Their answers were brutally honest: “Because the British are good people. They give us money, free education, free housing, everything we need.”… pic.twitter.com/uJZUTEKfT3
— Yossi BenYakar (@YossiBenYakar) June 11, 2026
“I realised how easy it was to track them down,” he told the Mail on Sunday. “They advertise on TikTok. Then to talk about locations, times, prices, you move on to WhatsApp. Yet nothing seemed to be done. So, we decided to front them up ourselves.”
By midday he had faced three smugglers and received death threats on the spot. One had a WhatsApp profile picture posing with automatic weapons.
GB News' Patrick Christys is in Calais speaking to illegal immigrants en route to the UK.
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This one travelled through 7 countries so far.
Not refugees but invaders! ? pic.twitter.com/a30EckPgOE
The real blow came days later. Christys was live on air when his wife called during an ad break: the police were at their flat. Someone wanted to kill him.
“I got back just after midnight on July 25. The police read out an official ‘threat to life’ notice,” he said. “It said, ‘As a result of your recent journalistic coverage of organised crime groups in northern France we are aware that members of those organised immigration crime groups are seeking to actively engage with you to cause you significant harm.’”
Officers were blunter still: get out immediately, pack a bag, do not drive the car in case it is booby-trapped, take a black cab to a safe house and do not come back.
'I know enough French to know you just called me racist!'@PatrickChristys confronts a charity group in Northern France who evade his questions, as he discovers a manual for migrants planning to illegally cross to the UK. pic.twitter.com/gKaYXX82wN
— GB News (@GBNEWS) July 21, 2025
A panic alarm was fitted the next day. The couple were later allowed home under strict conditions, told to disguise themselves if they went out. Their son George was born a few weeks later. Stepping outside the hospital for a cigarette, Christys spotted one of the Calais runners he had exposed – distinctive Palestinian-flag-style ring and all – walking straight towards him.
“He walked up to me, paused and I thought, ‘This is it. He’s going to do me’. We locked eyes and he held my gaze, and then walked off. I’m 100 per cent sure it was the same man.”
Worse followed. Contractors arrived to remove the panic alarm. It had already been disconnected for ten days without anyone telling the family, because the police “didn’t have enough.”
Twelve months later the threat-to-life warning has never been lifted. GB News is paying for continuous security patrols. Christys is clear about the source: illegal migrant organised crime gangs operating both in northern France and inside Britain.
“This is personal for me,” he said. “I want everyone to understand the reality of who we’re letting in to our country. These human traffickers wanted to kill me in my own home while my wife was eight months pregnant. Who knows if they’d have tried to harm my wife and son in order to get to me?”
He added, “It makes me incredibly angry that we let illegals into the country – who we all pay for. Then we let those same people make millions of pounds trafficking yet more illegals to Britain. They feel so emboldened, they thought they could kill a TV journalist in his own home and get away with it.”
In his own words on X, Christys thanked supporters and GB News for keeping the family safe. He said the public needed to know exactly how dangerous these gangs are.
Intelligence agencies would only tell the Met that the threat came from illegal migrant organised crime groups, without specifics.
The same gangs who traffic people across the Channel in rubber dinghies feel secure enough to threaten a British journalist in his own home and then appear on a London street. Police resources stretch far enough to disconnect a panic alarm without notice, yet somehow the multimillion-pound smuggling networks continue to operate in plain sight.
Christys is not staying silent. He has already said he will return to northern France. The gangs tried to scare a journalist into stopping. They failed.
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