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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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James Walker

Tommy Robinson pleads not guilty to terrorism offences in London court appearance

TOMMY Robinson has pleaded not guilty to charges under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

The far-right agitator appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court on Wednesday accused of failing to provide the pin to his mobile phone.

The charge is in relation to an incident in Folkestone on Sunday July 28 after officers stopped Robinson under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

The National is told that the case will go to trial in March 2025. 

It comes after he was jailed for 18 months last month after admitting contempt of court by repeating false allegations against a Syrian refugee, in breach of an injunction.

The political activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, admitted 10 breaches of a High Court order made in 2021 .

Lawyers for the Solicitor General claimed the 41-year-old had been “thumbing his nose at the court” and “undermining” the rule of law, including by publishing a film called Silenced, which contains the libellous allegations, last year.

Barristers for Robinson, who wore a grey suit and white shirt, said it was his “principles that have brought him before the court”.

Passing sentence, Justice Johnson said the breaches of the injunction were not “accidental, negligent or merely reckless” and that the “custodial threshold is amply crossed”.

He said: “It was a planned, deliberate, direct, flagrant breach of the court’s orders.”

He continued: “Nobody is above the law. Nobody can pick and choose which injunctions they obey and those they do not.”

He added: “It is in the interests of the whole community that injunctions are obeyed.”

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