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Evening Standard
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Callum Parke

Tommy Robinson loses appeal against sentence for contempt of court

Tommy Robinson attended the appeal by video-link from HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes - (Yui Mok/PA Wire)

Tommy Robinson has lost an appeal against his 18-month sentence for the civil offence of contempt of court at the Court of Appeal.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was jailed in October last year after admitting multiple breaches of a High Court order made in 2021, which barred him from repeating false allegations against a Syrian refugee who successfully sued him for libel.

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