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[email protected] | Joseph Reaidi

Tommy Robinson claims he's been ‘detained by Counter Terrorism Police at airport’

Tommy Robinson has claimed he has been detained at an airport (Image: PA)

FAR-RIGHT activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, has allegedly been detained at an undisclosed airport by Counter Terrorism Police.

Yaxley-Lennon claimed today on his social media page that he has once again been detained at an airport - having had the same thing happen at Heathrow Airport earlier this year. Then, he also had his phones seized under section 3 of the Counter-Terrorism Border Security Act 2019.

On a post on X written by an admin, his account reads: “Tommy has been detained again, at an airport by Counter Terrorism Police.

“They will never stop trying to destroy this man.

“Why are they so scared?”

Yaxley-Lennon has had similar situations in recent years, too.

Last year, British Transport Police arrested a 42-year-old man from Bedfordshire, understood to be Robinson, at Luton Airport.

This was in relation to a viral video following reports of an assault at St Pancras station - however, no charges were made as the victim did not wish to provide a statement.

As a result, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) concluded last year that there was not a “realistic prospect of conviction”.

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