TOMMY Robinson is hiding out in a luxury 5-star resort abroad as far-right mobs terrorise parts of England and Northern Ireland.
The founder of the English Defence League (EDL), whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, fled the country last Sunday amid a High Court case for committing alleged “flagrant” contempt of court relating to a film played at a protest in central London.
The National tracked down the far-right figure through an OSINT (open source intelligence) analysis of his social media posts – from a live stream with American far-right personality Alex Jones to a gym selfie – which showed he has spent some of his time after fleeing the UK at a luxury resort in Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
Yaxley-Lennon can be geolocated to the all-inclusive hotel – which includes a luxurious spa, multiple outdoor and indoor pools, tennis courts and a water park – up to at least August 3.
The hotel charges more than £400 a night for a peak season double room with all meals and drinks included.
It comes as the far-right has drawn widespread condemnation as the organising force behind scenes of disorder in multiple towns and cities in the wake of the killings of three young girls in Southport last Monday.
How The National found Tommy Robinson
The National's investigation started after viewing a video Yaxley-Lennon posted of himself on Twitter/X on Thursday evening while speaking in a supermarket.
The packaging on the shelves was in Greek, and the prices were in euro, so it was clear he was either in Greece or Cyprus.
Another video, posted on Friday morning, showed him in a gym at what appeared to be a resort.
Some features in the video indicated that the gym was at a venue of a specific resort chain with dozens of resorts in Greece and Cyprus.
After viewing the photo galleries of each of the chain's hotels and resorts on their website, we found a hotel gym that perfectly matched the one in Yaxley-Lennon's Friday video.
A livestreamed interview with American far-right personality Alex Jones on Friday night helped to seal the deal, as the room Yaxley-Lennon was speaking from matched one of the resort's pricier rooms.
The Daily Mail independently found where he was hiding out, publishing their story on Sunday.
Yaxley-Lennon – who has a huge following on platforms including Twitter/X – is among the figures accused of stoking tensions as he has consistently spread disinformation from abroad, pushing an anti-immigration and anti-Islam narrative, including about an incident in Scotland.
There was violence on Saturday in towns and cities such as Hull, Liverpool, Stoke-on-Trent, Nottingham, Bristol, Manchester, Blackpool and Belfast which saw several police officers injured.
On Sunday, masked rioters stormed into a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham and set it on fire.
The far-right thugs involved have been heard chanting “Tommy Robinson” at many of the riots across England.
Before fleeing the country, Yaxley-Lennon was arrested under anti-terror laws, but was then released on unconditional bail.
A High Court judge has subsequently issued a warrant for his arrest after he failed to appear at a hearing last week in his latest alleged contempt of court case.
Justice Johnson said that he would issue the warrant but ordered that it not be carried out “until early October” to allow Yaxley-Lennon time to indicate that he would attend the next hearing voluntarily, or to apply to “set aside” the warrant.
In an address to the country on Sunday afternoon, Keir Starmer also vowed rioters would “regret” taking part in “far-right thuggery” as the Government announced emergency security for mosques amid the threat of further disorder.
The Prime Minister condemned the attack on the hotel in Rotherham and promised those involved in unrest would “face the full force of the law”.
Speaking from Downing Street, he also suggested that rioters taking to the streets, and those “whipping up this action online and then running away themselves,” would face consequences.
