Tommy Robinson to be released within days after high court cuts sentence
He was jailed for breaching a court order on 10 occasions
Tommy Robinson was jailed at Woolwich Crown Court last October after admitting 10 breaches of a High Court order made in 2021 (Jordan Pettitt/PA)
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson is set to be released from prison within days after a high court judge ruled that his sentence could be cut by four months.
Robison, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was jailed for 18 months last October after he admitted to breaching a court order on multiple occasions.
He was due for release on July 26th, but will now be free within a matter of days, a court heard.
The injunction was made to prevent him from repeating false allegations against a Syrian refugee who sued him for liable.
Sentencing judge, Mr Justice Johnson said that the sentence was made up of a punitive element of 14 months and a coercive element of 4 months.
Tommy Robinson was jailed at Woolwich Crown Court last October after admitting 10 breaches of a High Court order made in 2021 (Jordan Pettitt/PA)
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The court heard that the 4-month sentence would be reduced if he took steps to comply with the court order.
At a court hearing on Tuesday, legal counsel for Robinson said he had shown 'commitment' to complying with the order.
The judge told the court that while Robinson didn't show remorse, he had demonstrated a 'change in attitude' since he was first jailed.
He added that the English Defence League founder has 'no intention' of breaching the order again, and is 'aware of the consequences' if he did so.
Robinson admitted to breaching the injunction, which was imposed after he was successfully sued by schoolboy Jamal Hijazi, a total of 10 times.
Robinson had falsely claimed that the then 15-year-old had attacked girls at his school in Huddersfield.
He was ordered to pay Hijazi £100,000 in damages as well as the boy's legal costs.
A judge then imposed the injunction to stop Robinson from repeating the false allegations.
In January, Disgraced UFC star Conor McGregor threw his support behind Robinson while attending the inauguration of Donald Trump.
A reporter said he wanted to talk to McGregor about how Ireland is 'having a problem with illegal immigration, just like America (and) just like the UK'.
Conor McGregor and Tommy Robinson
'One of the leading voices in the UK, a guy named Tommy Robinson, who also happens to be part Irish is locked up right now (for) bringing attention not only to immigration and to the rape of Britain but also for exposing trouble with refugees,' the reporter states.
'What do you think about Tommy's predicament right now in the UK and the fact that he's locked up for playing the documentary film?
McGregor replies in the encounter that was filmed: 'For the life of me I can't understand why we wish to hide these horrific crimes and shield them from light.
'Light is the best disinfectant and light is needed so for anyone that sheds light on this they do not deserve to be turned on in society, they deserve to be praised.
'So, you know, I pray for more light on the bad things that happen,' he said.
Trump's right-hand man, Elon Musk, previously called for the release of Robinson while accusing Keir Starmer of failing to prosecute child rapists in Oldham in Greater Manchester.
The president's billionaire pal previously pinned a message at the top of his X feed stating 'Free Tommy Robinson!'
As well as a number of messages in support of Robinson, Musk posted several times about rape gangs in Rochdale and Oldham, while attacking the prime minister and the safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, over their responses to the scandal.
McGregor attended a ball ahead of Trump's inauguration as the 47th president of the United States just days after a judge ordered him to pay Nikita Hand €100,000 of her €250,000 damages and €200,000 of her expected €1.3m legal costs.
Last November a jury found McGregor had assaulted Ms Hand in a civil case she took against him over an alleged rape in December 2018.
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