Looks like Tommy Robinson AKA Stephen Yaxley-Lennon will have to tough it out in prison until July 26th after failing to get his 18-month jail term reduced at the Court of Appeal today.
Robinson’s latest stint in jail kicked off in October 2024 after he admitted to 10 breaches of a High Court injunction that prohibited him from repeating false allegations against Syrian refugee Jamal Hijazi, who successfully sued him for libel.
Instead of adhering to the injuction, Tommy produced a film called Silenced, which contains the libellous allegations, and shared it on his socials as well as screening it in Trafalgar Square in London. He must’ve known that this would result in another jail sentence, and that’s exactly what happened.
This week, judges at the Court of Appeal were told how Robinson’s ailing mental health, combined with his segregation in prison, is ‘making him ill’. It doesn’t sound like they were too sympathetic though, with The Solicitor General opposing the appeal, and its barristers stating there are ‘no grounds for altering the sentence’.
It’s actually the second L that Robinson has had to endure in court in less than a month, after a bid to bring a legal challenge against the Government over his segregation at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes was thrown out of the High Court in March.
What’s really remarkable is that when Robinson was jailed back in October, Justice Johnson said he could reduce his sentence by four months if he took certain steps to ‘purge’ his contempt, such as removing the film from his social media pages.
As of now, the film is still pinned to the top of his social media accounts, which means the contempt is technically still happening, and he hasn’t taken on board what the court asked him to do. Which means there was never any chance they were going to reduce his sentence, because he already knows what he has to do to make that happen.
I know Tommy/his team are leaving the film up to make a point, but is it really worth the damage that they claim his isolation is doing to his mental and physical health?
I’m also surprised at his attempt to take the government to court over his segregation in prison, as I’m pretty sure he’d be a dead man walking in there if he were to come into contact with the rest of the prison population. Maybe he’s having that much of a rough time being segregated, that he thinks it’s worth the risk to mix with other inmates who hate his guts?
Well, either way, he’s staying put until July and maybe, just maybe, he’ll have had a rough enough time that he’ll try to keep out of prison from now on.
For the British patroot who is being roasted for getting a Tommy Robinson ‘Enemy of the State’ tattoo on his leg, click HERE. That is pretty embarrassing, to be fair.
