What is Tommy Robinson's real name and how does he look like after getting out of prison?
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Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, popularly known as Tommy Robinson was released from the HMP Woodhill, Buckinghamshire on Tuesday after his 18-month sentence was cut back at the High Court by four months.
Yaxley-Lennon was scheduled to be released on July 26 but had to apply to the High Court to purge his contempt order.
Now, the far-right activist has had a complete makeover of appearances that seems to have shocked many. Read along to find out how he looks now!
Who is Tommy Robinson?
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Tommy Robinson is one of the most popular far-right activists and anti-Islam campaigners in the UK. Robinson, who also created far-right and Islamophobic organisations, had been serving an 18-month prison sentence for contempt of court since October 2024 when he admitted 10 breaches of an injunction which prohibited him from repeating false allegations against a Syrian refugee who successfully sued him for libel.
The solicitor general issued two contempt claims against him with the first being that he "knowingly" breached the order on four occasions. One of these occasions included having "published, caused, authorised or procured" a film called 'Silenced' in May 2023, which contains the libellous allegations. The film was pinned at the top of Robinson's X profile. He also repeated the claims in three interviews between February and June 2023.
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The second claim, issued in August 2024 concerned six further breaches including playing the film at a demonstration in Trafalgar Square in central London in the summer of 2024.
The injunction was issued after Jamal Hijazi, a then-schoolboy who was assaulted at Almondbury Community School in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, in October 2018 sued Yaxley-Lennon with a libel case. This was because after a clip of the incident went viral, Yaxley-Lennon made false claims about Hijazi on Facebook.
What is Tommy Robinson's real name?
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Tommy Robinson was born Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon on November 27, 1982. He took on the pseudonym to hide his identity and past criminal history including a conviction for assaulting an off-duty police officer in a drunken argument. The connection between his real and current name was uncovered by the Searchlight magazine in 2010. The name has been taken from Tommy Robinson, a member of the Luton Town MIGSs, a football hooligan crew that follows Luton Town.
How does Tommy Robinson look now?
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In the ruling on Tuesday, Mr Justice Johnson said that while there was an "absence of contrition or remorse" from Yaxley-Lennon, he had shown "a change in attitude" since he was sentenced.
'He has given an assurance that he will comply with the injunction in the future [and] that he has no intention of breaching it again,' said the judge.
After his release, he was filmed speaking on his social media channel on X for around 20 minutes.
The 42-year-old who was earlier recognised by a clean-shaven face with stylish clothes and a military-style haircut now looked completely unrecognisable.
Robinson now has longer hair, and a bushy beard and was seen donning a black Adidas t-shirt along with a rosary around the neck that also had a cross on it. His body also appeared to have changed by becoming more leaner than before.
While Robinson may have been released from prison for now, if he breaches the injunction again he could be jailed for up to two years, revealed Mr Justice Johnson.
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