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Emrys

(8,053 posts)
Mon Oct 28, 2024, 04:36 PM Oct 28

Tommy Robinson jailed for 18 months for repeating libellous claims against Syrian refugee

Thousands of Robinson’s supporters protested in central London on Saturday, but the right-wing figure missed the event

Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 18 months for contempt of court after he admitted breaching an injunction preventing him from repeating libellous allegations against a Syrian refugee.

The 41-year-old, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was accused of “thumbing his nose at the court” in front of millions of people by breaching the 2021 High Court order on multiple occasions, including airing a documentary at a rally in Trafalgar Square in July.

In a ruling on Friday, Mr Justice Johnson sentenced him to 18 months in prison for the “flagrant” breaches of the court order.
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The court heard Robinson had been barred from repeating false allegations against a refugee called Jamal Hijazi. Mr Hijazi successfully sued Robinson for libel after the then-schoolboy was assaulted at Almondbury Community School in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, in October 2018.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tommy-robinson-prison-sentence-jail-time-libel-b2636816.html


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Tommy Robinson jailed for 18 months for repeating libellous claims against Syrian refugee (Original Post) Emrys Oct 28 OP
Glad to see this habitual criminal locked up again muriel_volestrangler Oct 28 #1

muriel_volestrangler

(102,693 posts)
1. Glad to see this habitual criminal locked up again
Mon Oct 28, 2024, 04:48 PM
Oct 28

I don't suppose his victim gets automatic new payments from him for the repeated libel.

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