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Tommy Robinson loses High Court libel case

Jamal Hijazi was filmed being attacked in the playground at Almondbury School in Huddersfield in October 2018.

The English Defence League founder, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, claimed Mr Hijazi attacked "young English girls".

Mr Justice Nicklin ruled in Mr Hijazi's favour and granted him £100,000 in damages.

Shortly after the video of the incident went viral, Mr Robinson claimed in two Facebook videos that the teenager was "not innocent and he violently attacks young English girls in his school".

In the clips viewed by nearly one million people, the 38-year-old also claimed Jamal "beat a girl black and blue" and "threatened to stab" another boy at his school, allegations the teenager denies.

Catrin Evans QC, for Mr Hijazi, previously said that Robinson's comments led to the teenager "facing death threats and extremist agitation" and that he should receive damages of between £150,000 and £190,000.

During the trial, Ms Evans described Mr Robinson as "a well-known extreme-right advocate" with an "anti-Muslim agenda" who used social media to spread his views.

She added that Mr Robinson's videos "turned Jamal into the aggressor and the bully into a righteous white knight".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-57930901
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Horrible man. Lied about a victim of a racist bully.
Unfortunately, he has plenty of support in the UK.
Bet he's going to ask for support from his fans to pay off the libel.

posted on 22/7/21

I mean they come over here illegally and assault our brave boys in blue, sell our people drugs and live illegally in houses they don't own!

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I thought your final two paragraphs were satire until you started spitting facts. Now I’m not so sure.

comment by Beeb (U1841)

posted on 22/7/21


There's no doubt that Choudary and the other Islamist nutcases in Luton gave rise to the EDL.
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There's plenty of doubt. The EDL gave rise to the EDL. No-one else and suggesting so is weak ass maggot sh!t.
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If that helps you get to sleep at night lad. Crack on.
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Highly doubt it's something he'd lose sleep over
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He just seemed a little rattled

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And you just seem to be tad sympathetic to pondlife.

posted on 22/7/21


Quite startling what the Right Wing have achieved.

Not just in the UK but worldwide.

Convinced poor folk they are poor & threatened cos of other poor folk.

Meanwhile the corrupt fatcats who should be Doing Time ....

posted on 28/7/21

comment by South Side (U20009)
posted 5 days, 18 hours ago
It sounded like he jumped on a load of lies about the kid and decided to broadcast it before the facts were known. It's not a surprise he's got into trouble for it.

He's become even more erratic over the years.

I'll be honest, I did have sympathy with his story and the extremist element he had to deal with on his doorstep. There's no doubt that Choudary and the other Islamist nutcases in Luton gave rise to the EDL. Not a lot of people I know would have the balls to stand up like he did. It was a pressure movement and there did seem to be a change in the water afterwards. If the police were standing by allowing recruitment into the Taliban on the streets of England it's not a surprise there was a reaction. Sometimes it takes somebody with Robinson's character to kick up a bit of a fuss. Like it or not.

The trouble with Tommy Robinson was that his notoriety and the money went to his head. He could see there was money to be made in peddling hate and some of his stuff on social media, Parlour etc was beyond a joke.
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What a load of crap.

posted on 28/7/21

comment by The Mighty Quinn (U4099)
posted 5 days, 11 hours ago

Quite startling what the Right Wing have achieved.

Not just in the UK but worldwide.

Convinced poor folk they are poor & threatened cos of other poor folk.

Meanwhile the corrupt fatcats who should be Doing Time ....


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A rich white guy, a poor white guy annd a black/brown guy are eating 12 cookies.

Rich white guy gobbles 11 cookies and says to poor white guy "watch out for the black/brown guy, he's after your cookie".

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How?

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