Crime Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, the actor who performs 'Tommy Robinson', sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for breaching libel injunction

[650lb Sumo]

Spoiler: Link

Tommy Robinson jailed for 18 months for repeating libellous claim against refugee

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

www.independent.co.uk

Yaxley-Lennon and guard

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.

Yaxley-Lennon

In a ruling on Friday, Mr Justice Johnson sentenced him to 18 months in prison for the 'flagrant' breaches of the court order.

Robinson appeared wearing a grey suit and waistcoat at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday. He stood with his hands on the edge of the dock and looked up at dozens of supporters, shrugging his shoulders, as the judge handed down the sentence. He saluted the public gallery and pumped his chest as he left the dock.

At the start of the hearing Robinson confirmed he had admitted to 10 breaches of the order.

The court heard Robinson had been barred from repeating false allegations against a refugee called Jamal Hijazi.

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.

However, defamatory allegations against the schoolboy were repeated in six podcast and YouTube interviews undertaken by Robinson since February last year, including with Jordan Peterson.

Peterson

A 90-minute documentary called Silenced, which 'substantially repeats' the allegations, was also published or aired on four occasions, including on X – where it has been viewed by 44 million people – and to crowds at a rally in Trafalgar Square in July.

At one point the film was reshared by controversial far-right influencer Andrew Tate to 2.2 million followers.

Tate

Protestors outside court

Mr Justice Johnson... said Robinson would serve half of the jail term in custody, and his sentence could be reduced to 14 months if he 'purges' his contempt, such as by removing the film from his X account. However Robinson shook his head and appeared to say 'Nah' from inside the dock.

On Saturday thousands of his supporters gathered in central London for a protest, which the political activist missed after he was remanded.

Demonstrators carried placards reading 'Two-tier Keir fuelled the riots', and chanted “We want Tommy out” as they headed from Victoria station to Parliament Square.

Demonstrators

 

[ColemanwastheGOAT]

What were the libelous accusations?

 

[Deleted member 585708]

Spoiler: Link

Tommy Robinson jailed for 18 months for repeating libellous claim against refugee

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

www.independent.co.uk

Yaxley-Lennon and guard

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.

Yaxley-Lennon

In a ruling on Friday, Mr Justice Johnson sentenced him to 18 months in prison for the 'flagrant' breaches of the court order.

Robinson appeared wearing a grey suit and waistcoat at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday. He stood with his hands on the edge of the dock and looked up at dozens of supporters, shrugging his shoulders, as the judge handed down the sentence. He saluted the public gallery and pumped his chest as he left the dock.

At the start of the hearing Robinson confirmed he had admitted to 10 breaches of the order.

The court heard Robinson had been barred from repeating false allegations against a refugee called Jamal Hijazi.

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.

However, defamatory allegations against the schoolboy were repeated in six podcast and YouTube interviews undertaken by Robinson since February last year, including with Jordan Peterson.

Peterson

A 90-minute documentary called Silenced, which 'substantially repeats' the allegations, was also published or aired on four occasions, including on X – where it has been viewed by 44 million people – and to crowds at a rally in Trafalgar Square in July.

At one point the film was reshared by controversial far-right influencer Andrew Tate to 2.2 million followers.

Tate

Protestors outside court

Mr Justice Johnson... said Robinson would serve half of the jail term in custody, and his sentence could be reduced to 14 months if he 'purges' his contempt, such as by removing the film from his X account. However Robinson shook his head and appeared to say 'Nah' from inside the dock.

On Saturday thousands of his supporters gathered in central London for a protest, which the political activist missed after he was remanded.

Demonstrators carried placards reading 'Two-tier Keir fuelled the riots', and chanted “We want Tommy out” as they headed from Victoria station to Parliament Square.

Demonstrators

Love the title lol

This cowardly actor obsessing over a schoolboy has to be the single most embarrassing grift in the UK right now.

Total coward, full time charlatan.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

What were the libelous accusations?

Almondbury Community School bullying incident - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[ColemanwastheGOAT]

Almondbury Community School bullying incident - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Hours after spreading the claims during two Facebook live broadcasts, Robinson admitted to his followers that he had helped spread fake news.

So he almost immediately retracted it. Wow.
People do this exact same thing on here all the time after a school shooting or whatever. Should they all get sued for repeating rumours?

 

[Natural Order]

Yaxley-Lennon chose a very odd hill to die on. What an absolute can. Fuck im.

 

[Natural Order]

So he almost immediately retracted it. Wow.
People do this exact same thing on here all the time after a school shooting or whatever. Should they all get sued for repeating rumours?

You need to read things thoroughly before responding.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

So he almost immediately retracted it. Wow.
People do this exact same thing on here all the time after a school shooting or whatever. Should they all get sued for repeating rumours?

Did you read the original post?

 

[650lb Sumo]

This is Yaxley-Lennon's fifth prison sentence.

 

[avenue94]

So he almost immediately retracted it. Wow.
People do this exact same thing on here all the time after a school shooting or whatever. Should they all get sued for repeating rumours?

Maybe one day you'll learn that different countries have different libel and slander laws.

 

[Lycandroid]

if they held themselves to that same standard the entire british press would have been in jail perpetually

 

[Croo67]

Meanwhile, the two chaps who hospitalised multiple police women in a frenzied attack at Manchester Airport - all caught on CCTV - still haven’t been charged.

This is all calculated by Tommy Robinson, in my opinion. Tomorrow’s budget will create major anger in Britain and his words will start resonating with people.

 

[Deleted member 585708]

Meanwhile, the two chaps who hospitalised multiple police women in a frenzied attack at Manchester Airport - all caught on CCTV - still haven’t been charged.

This is all calculated by Tommy Robinson, in my opinion. Tomorrow’s budget will create major anger in Britain and his words will start resonating with people.

Meanwhile they locked up that evil Lucy Letby.

 

[Croo67]

Meanwhile they locked up that evil Lucy Letby.

Not sure I see the relevancy?

 

[Deleted member 585708]

Not sure I see the relevancy?

It's obviously not relevant.

Lucy Letby has no relevance whatsoever to the case of two thugs from Rochdale.
The case of two thugs in Rochdale has no relevance whatsoever to the imprisonment of Stephen Christopher Yaxley Lennon.

You have to be demented to link these incidents and be serious about it.

 

[Croo67]

It's obviously not relevant.

Lucy Letby has no relevance whatsoever to the case of two thugs from Rochdale.
The case of two thugs in Rochdale has no relevance whatsoever to the imprisonment of Stephen Christopher Yaxley Lennon.

You have to be demented to link these incidents and be serious about it.

It is relevant.

You’ve got two thugs who hospitalised multiple police officers freely roaming the streets, whilst those without any previous criminal records get years in jails for posts online.

Who is the bigger threat to the public?

 

[Deleted member 585708]

It is relevant.

You’ve got two thugs who hospitalised multiple police officers freely roaming the streets, whilst those without any previous criminal records get years in jails for posts online.

Who is the bigger threat to the public?

Two unrelated cases with no commonality are completely irrelevant and you can see that, but then two totally different unrelated cases with no commonality are relevant.

Take a step back and think about it for a second.

I'm confident you'll see how silly your suppositions are if you actually look at it with a clear head.

 

[Croo67]

Two unrelated cases with no commonality are completely irrelevant and you can see that, but then two totally different unrelated cases with no commonality are relevant.

Take a step back and think about it for a second.

I'm confident you'll see how silly your suppositions are if you actually look at it with a clear head.

The Manchester Airport attack happened at the same time as the posts online… you know when Starmer vowed to crack down hard on people?

The Lucy Letby is a completely unrelated case and she was jailed, hence why your point is irrelevant.

Unless you were insinuating that she’s a white Brit so we should ignore all the illegal immigrants terrorising Britain?

 

[Deleted member 585708]

The Manchester Airport attack happened at the same time as the posts online… you know when Starmer vowed to crack down hard on people?

The Lucy Letby is a completely unrelated case and she was jailed, hence why your point is irrelevant.

Unless you were insinuating that she’s a white Brit so we should ignore all the illegal immigrants terrorising Britain?

I'll leave you with it, you're creating connections where there are none for "reasons".

I actually thought you'd realize that what you were doing made no sense, but nah. Doubled down instead. lol

 

[Dalarna3]

Libel being a criminal offense is nuts.