Tommy Robinson guilty of harassing Mail journalists
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Tommy Robinson guilty of harassing Mail journalists
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq2d6z36pp53o
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Political activist Tommy Robinson has been convicted of harassing two Daily Mail journalists.
A jury at Southwark Crown Court found the 43-year-old, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, guilty of two counts of harassment causing fear of violence.
The case concerned Robinson's response to Daily Mail and Mail Online articles from August 2024, showing him on holiday in Cyprus while riots took place in England following the Southport murders.
The court had heard how Robinson, from Bedfordshire, used "bully-boy, intimidatory tactics" to frighten reporters Andrew Young and Jacob Dirnhuber, forcing them to employ security or leave home.
Robinson had denied the charges, saying he had "panicked" and had been "scared" when the Daily Mail published a story accusing him of "stoking race riots from his sunbed".
He told the jury he felt the article had "endangered" his family by revealing they were staying in a hotel near Ayia Napa in Cyprus.
After the guilty verdicts, Frank Ferguson, the head of the Crown Prosecution Service's Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said Robinson had "weaponised social media and subjected two journalists to a campaign of harassment which caused them serious fear of violence".
Robinson was granted bail ahead of his sentencing, scheduled for 16 December.
Harassment causing fear of violence can carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, or up to 14 years if the offence is racially or religiously aggravated.
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Re: Tommy Robinson guilty of harassing Mail journalists
No surprise there, the establishment don't like him 
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Re: Tommy Robinson guilty of harassing Mail journalists
Being a “Devil’s Advocate" just puts you on the same side as the Devil…
and it was a jury of his peers that found him guilty, not "the Establishment"…
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Re: Tommy Robinson guilty of harassing Mail journalists
Like journalists never harasse any one do they.
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Re: Tommy Robinson guilty of harassing Mail journalists
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Being a “Devil’s Advocate" just puts you on the same side as the Devil… |
Don't know the bloke, never spoke to him or even met him. Doesn't bother me in the slightest what he does to make headlines . . . although he seems a bit stupid (as are most) to use a large, well used and probably closely monitored social media platform for his outbursts of anger.
You'd think a bloke with his 'credentials' would be a tad more circumspect, but when you've made yourself a target I guess you're screwed anyway
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Re: Tommy Robinson guilty of harassing Mail journalists
"daily mail journalists" that's some heavy lifting
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Re: Tommy Robinson guilty of harassing Mail journalists
Prisons are full 
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Re: Tommy Robinson guilty of harassing Mail journalists
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he could get a suspended sentence , some singer bloke smacked someone over the head 3 times with a broken bottle and got a suspended  unless we have two tier justice 
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Re: Tommy Robinson guilty of harassing Mail journalists
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he could get a suspended sentence , some singer bloke smacked someone over the head 3 times with a broken bottle and got a suspended unless we have two tier justice |
Did this "singer bloke" have previous form, such as
- jailed for 12 months for assault occasioning actual bodily harm and assault with intent to resist arrest, for which he received a concurrent term of three months.
- arrested for assaulting a police officer during clashes on Armistice Day alongside five other EDL members
- convicted of assault for an attack at an EDL march in Blackburn where he headbutted someone, and was sentenced to 12 weeks imprisonment suspended for 12 months.
- found guilty of leading a brawl that included 100 Luton Town football fans into a fight with Newport County fans and was given a suspended 12-month prison sentence and banned from Luton football matches for 3 years.
- being jailed for 10 months for travelling to the USA on his friend’s passport.
- sentenced to prison for 18 months for committing mortgage fraud with the crime dating back to 2009, after pleading guilty in November 2013 to committing £160,000 worth of mortgage fraud
- being charged with contempt of court and convicted after filming inside Canterbury Crown Court and was sentenced to three months imprisonment.
- being arrested and found guilty of contempt of court after Facebook live streaming outside Leeds Crown Court for an hour despite their being reporting restrictions on the case. Following various appeals he was jailed for nine months at the Old Bailey in July 2019.
- being banned from all football matches for four years after he assaulted a football fan in Portugal in 2019.
- being convicted at Westminster Magistrates’ Court of stalking a couple and was given a five-year ban from contacting them or referring to them.
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Re: Tommy Robinson guilty of harassing Mail journalists
Whilst I personally think Brown should have been imprisoned, are you saying his previous convictions in the UK (if any) are the same as four convictions for violent offences, two contempts of court, a mortgage fraud, and various other offences?
Nothing in your link shows any "previous form" in this country…
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