New laws may make it easier to pursue far-right activist over alleged role in spreading disinformation
using his phone while sunbathing in Cyprus as a Rotherham hotel housing asylum seekers was set alight have prompted outrage among those long concerned about his ability to inspire far-right action, even from a distance.
“I think prosecutors will want to have a strategy to identify people who may have been involved in inciting and encouraging these events, and they will want to arrest them and build cases against them. These are, in one sense, the most important people,” he told BBC Radio 4’s World at One.
Recent changes in the law open up other possibilities. Since January, an amendment to the Online Safety Act 2023 allows for the prosecution of those who convey information that they know to be false and “if the person intended the message, or the information in it, to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience”.
Hope Not Hate, which campaigns against racism and fascism, called on HMRC to investigate the business affairs of Robinson, who declared himself bankrupt in a high court trial in 2021 in which he wasOur morning email breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what’s happening and why it mattersafter it was alerted to how he was using donation tools designed for charities to raise funds for his activism.
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