Far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson, has been released from prison.
The 42-year-old, jailed for contempt of court in October, left HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes after his 18-month sentence was reduced by the High Court.
Yaxley-Lennon was filmed speaking for about 20 minutes for a video posted to his social media account on X.
TOMMY HAS BEEN FREED FROM PRISON!!!
— Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) May 27, 2025
h/t Mauser
Tommy Robinson is due to be released from prison within the next week after his 18-month contempt of court setence was reduced by four months at the High Court.
Robinson had been jailed for 18 months in October after admitting multiple breaches of a 2021 injunction which barred him from repeating allegations against Jamal Hijazi, a Syrian migrant who successfully sued him for libel.
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Lucy Connolly, a former childminder and the wife of a Conservative councillor, was jailed in October after pleading guilty to a charge of inciting racial hatred.
Last week, the 42-year-old went to the Court of Appeal in an attempt to challenge the length of the original prison term.
h/t Patti Jo and NeoCon!
Sir Martin Chamberlain didn’t take long to make up his mind.
The High Court judge had listened to a day of legal submissions and by 10 o’clock the next morning his decision was announced: Tommy Robinson’s contention that his treatment as a prisoner was unlawful and breached his human rights was “not arguable”, and it was “not accurate” to refer to his segregation as “solitary confinement”. His plea for a judicial review after he brought legal proceedings against Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary, had fallen at the first legal hurdle.
The jailed far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been allowed more than 1,250 social phone calls and 80 prison visitors during his time at HMP Woodhill, a court has heard.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is serving an 18-month prison sentence for contempt of court after breaching an injunction. He is currently seeking to launch a legal challenge against the Ministry of Justice over his segregation from other prisoners at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes.
Tommy Robinson is being kept in isolation over fears he could be killed in a prison with a “significant Muslim population”, a court has heard.
The 42-year-old would be in danger at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes if he was moved out of segregation as there were tensions between “Muslims and non-Muslims” which would be “inflamed” by his presence, Ministry of Justice officials said.
At the High Court on Thursday, his lawyers requested he be allowed to bring a legal challenge over his isolation arguing that it was a breach of his human rights.
Six people were arrested as thousands of Tommy Robinson supporters converged on central London on Saturday to demand his release from prison.
Hundreds of police officers kept them apart from anti-racism demonstrators as they marched towards Parliament Square.
Three arrests were made in Whitehall after Robinson’s supporters entered the Stand Up To Racism rally area in breach of conditions.
BREAKING: London has been conquered by THOUSANDS of British patriots demanding the release of ALL political prisoners including Tommy Robinson.
Unbelievable scenes pic.twitter.com/FyrqurW650
— God Save Great Britain (@GSGB01) February 1, 2025
The efforts of Reform UK’s leadership to professionalise their party have hit a major stumbling block: dissenters within who have expressed sympathy for Tommy Robinson and his supporters.
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage is no stranger to condemning Robinson, who founded the English Defence League (EDL) in my hometown of Luton in response to the notorious anti-military “Butchers of Basra” demonstrations in 2009. Under leader Gerard Batten, Farage resigned from the UK Independence Party (UKIP), citing the leadership’s “obsession” with Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) and “fixation with the issue of Islam”.
EDL founder jailed after admitting to breaching High Court order by repeating false allegations against a Syrian refugee
Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 18 months after admitting contempt of court by repeating false allegations against a Syrian refugee.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, admitted breaching the High Court order made in 2021 as he appeared at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday.
The 41-year-old appeared in the dock wearing a grey suit and waistcoat with no tie. At the start of a hearing, Aidan Eardley KC, for the Solicitor General, said a “resolution” had been reached over the allegations, and read them out to the court.
h/t Mauser
Progressive activists should be careful what they wish for
Tommy Robinson is a paradox: he is a brave and enormously successful activist-journalist with a mean right hook. At the same time, he’s prone to sentimentality, sensitive to criticism and sees himself as a victim, tethering his own private troubles — mortgage fraud, travelling to the US on a false passport and an upcoming contempt of court case to name just a few — to the political grievances of the white working class he claims to represent. His greatest contradiction, though, is that while he’s a trenchant critic of identity politics, mercilessly mocking the whiny victimhood of Black Lives Matter, the transgender movement and shady Islamists, he’s also an unmistakable product of that politics, weaponising the language of tribal resentment and self-pity for his own personal and political purposes.
Winston Churchill’s statue and the Cenotaph are guarded by ring of steel ahead of protests today by Tommy Robinson’s followers and counter-demonstrators on the streets of London
Tommy Robinson has been charged with a terror offence after refusing to give police access to his mobile phone.
The far-Right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, hugged supporters waiting outside Folkestone police station on Friday afternoon, who then cheered him as he entered the building.
It follows Robinson’s arrest at a port in Kent in July, when he was accused of “frustration” of police counter-terrorism powers.
The author is getting shredded in the comments. Here’s the article link.
Preservation of western civilization is not "far-right"..
European countries are waking up to the realities of the religion of peace..— Jonny Bell (@Jonnywsbell) August 30, 2024
The far-right agitator’s influence is surging in the wake of the Southport stabbings, but an inquiry into his web of companies may result in a bill for millions
“I f***kin’ need help.” Tommy Robinson was frank when, before the European Parliament elections in May 2019 in which he was standing, he sent a voice note to a friend at a right-wing US think tank.
The previous year, Robinson had been released from prison after serving time for contempt of court offences that almost collapsed the trial of the Huddersfield grooming gang, where dozens of men of Pakistani origin were charged with abusing girls as young as 11.
Since then, he had been on a non-stop campaign against the establishment’s “plot” to silence critics of Islam in Britain. He had been generously assisted by the Middle East Forum, which donated $60,000 towards his rallies and legal fees.
The government is exploring whether it can cancel the Irish passport obtained by Tommy Robinson, the British far-right anti-Islam campaigner who has been cultivating links with the Irish anti-immigration movement.
The Sunday Times has learned that Robinson’s use of an Irish passport is being examined by the Department of Foreign Affairs after his detention by authorities in Canada in June over alleged immigration offences.
An immigration form issued by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) to Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, stated that both his country of birth and country of citizenship was Ireland.
Irish parliamentarians have called on their government to investigate how an Irish passport was obtained by Tommy Robinson, who has been accused of inciting riots from abroad.
The Luton-born far-right leader travels on an Irish passport in his real name – Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – and was believed to have qualified for it via his mother, an Irish immigrant to Britain.
However, questions have been raised about the validity of the passport after an official form issued to Robinson when he was detained by Canadian immigration authorities in June stated that his place of birth was “Ireland”.
