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Callum Parke

Tommy Robinson told to pay £50,000 in costs after being jailed for contempt

Tommy Robinson has been ordered to pay £50,000 in costs (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

Tommy Robinson has been ordered to pay £50,000 in costs after he was jailed for contempt of court, with the final amount still to be decided.

The political activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was sentenced to 18 months in prison in October after the Solicitor General took legal action against him for breaching a High Court injunction made in 2021.

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