The sentencing came two days after thousands of his supporters took to the streets of London for a rally that prompted a large counter-demonstration.
Tommy Robinson, Britain’s best-known far-right and anti-immigrant agitator, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for defying a court order by repeating false claims about a teenage Syrian refugee who had successfully sued him for libel.
He had returned to Britain last week after several months abroad and turned himself in on Friday at a police station in Kent before his court hearing in Woolwich, a town in south-eastern London. Protesters carry placards as they take part in a counter-demonstration to a far right pro-UK rally endorsed by Tommy Robinson, in London on Sunday.Robinson also repeated the libel in interviews and admitted other breaches. “It is a continuing breach, the material is still out there and some of it is under the defendant’s control,” Aidan Eardley, speaking for the prosecutors, told the court.
, who was imprisoned for his role in the January 6, 2021, attacks on the US Capitol, called him an inspiration.When three children died in a stabbing attack at a dance class in Southport, England, in August, Robinson was accused of helping foment the riots that followed in several locations around the country.
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