Tommy Robinson has been given a nine-month prison sentence – of which he will serve about 10 weeks – after he was found guilty of contempt of court at an earlier hearing.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, broadcast reports that encouraged “vigilante action” and “unlawful physical” aggression against defendants in a sexual exploitation trial, according to the judges who found him guilty last week.
Passing sentence on Thursday, Dame Victoria Sharp said of...
Former European election candidate and English Defence League founder Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, widely known as Tommy Robinson, was found of guilty of contempt of court over broadcasting a trial of a sexual grooming gang last week. The activist has insisted that the case against him is politically motivated.
Tommy Robinson, known as a vocal anti-Islamisation activist, has publically begged US President Donald Trump for asylum ahead of his sentencing hearing in a contempt of court case....
Almost a quarter of British children do not know the meaning of the word “refugee”, according to a new survey, amid mounting evidence of a growth in negative sentiments and scepticism towards those seeking asylum in the UK.
Just over half of teachers (52 per cent) spoken to by the British Red Cross (BRC) said they had witnessed “anti-refugee” sentiments in their pupils and almost a quarter of children (24 per cent) did not know what a refugee was.
The poll of 750 primary and...
The anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson has been filmed punching an England fan to the ground outside a football stadium in Portugal.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, can be seen walking purposefully toward the man before striking him in the head.
Footage shows the man falling to the floor as Robinson shouts: “Fuck about again you’ll get knocked out again, bruv.”
The video appears to have been filmed outside the Estádio D Afonso Henriques in Guimarães,...
Ramadan worshippers have detained a man at a London mosque after he reportedly attempted to attack people with a hammer.
The worshippers seized the man at around 4.30am outside the Darussalam Cultural Centre in Southall, west London.
He was arrested by police, who said the incident was not terror related.
"A 38-year-old man is reported to have attempted to attack people," said a Metropolitan Police spokesman.
He was detained by worshippers prior to police...
Children are whitening their skin with make-up to avoid being bullied or racially abused at school, according to charity NSPCC.
Its research suggested racial abuse and bullying of children had risen by one-fifth since 2015-16.
There were over 10,500 race hate crime offences against children across the UK in 2017-18 - an average of 29 a day.
A 10-year-old girl told NSPCC she "tried to make her face whiter" as others described her skin as "dirty".
The girl who...
Police in Scotland are investigating an Islamophobic hate crime after racist and anti-Muslim comments were found spray-painted on the walls of a mosque Monday night.
The crime took place at the Elgin Islamic Centre in north Scotland around 11:00 p.m. A swastika symbol was sprayed on the walls as well as other racist and vulgar comments. Scottish police have described the incident as “completely unacceptable”.
"Well, of course we're worried. I mean, if we don't say that, then we...
Posters put up in an Essex town bearing the phrase “Islamists not welcome” are being treated as a hate crime, police have said.
Put up in several Rayleigh streets, they also warned targets to “stay back or we will kick you back”.
They displayed a symbol used by the pan-European white nationalist group Generation Identity alongside silhouette images of a mounted crusader chasing a pair of armed figures – one of whom is wearing a burqa.
Initially officers did not consider...
The UK government approved arms sales totalling at least £11.4m in the weeks after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
Export licences for military vehicles, combat aircraft, ammunition and electronic warfare equipment were issued despite international condemnation of the killing.
One £9.1m shipment of “patrol/assault craft” was waved through just three days after the prominent journalist disappeared while visiting the Saudi consulate in Turkey on 2 October.
The exports...
judgement" over his tweet about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's baby.
The tweet, which he later deleted but which has been circulated on social media, showed an image of a couple holding hands with a chimpanzee dressed in clothes with the caption: "Royal Baby leaves hospital".
The BBC 5 Live presenter was accused of mocking the duchess's racial heritage.
Baker claimed it was a "stupid gag".
The 61-year-old presented a Saturday morning show on the network.
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The Metropolitan police have launched an investigation after a shot was fired outside a London mosque during prayers for Ramadan.
Police said there were no injuries. They believe the shot came from a blank-firing handgun, and significantly, they were not treating it as a terrorist incident.
Police believe the incident may have stemmed from an earlier incident in the street close to the mosque.
The single shot was fired outside a mosque in Ilford in east London at 10....
A Cambridge University college has dismissed a researcher after uncovering evidence of his collaboration with far-right extremists, with the head of the college apologising “unreservedly” to students for the appointment.
St Edmund’s College announced it had terminated the post held by Noah Carl, who was at the centre of protests earlier this year after being named as the college’s Toby Jackman Newton Trust junior research fellow.
Carl’s appointment prompted complaints from...
Professional footballers in England and Wales are to boycott social media for 24 hours on Friday, to protest against the way social networks and football authorities respond to racism.
It follows a number of high-profile incidents in domestic and international matches this season.
Earlier this week, Manchester United captain Ashley Young was racially abused on Twitter.
And Watford captain Troy Deeney said "enough is enough".
"On Friday we are sending a message to...
A 16-year-old boy has received a police caution for an assault on a Syrian refugee filmed and shared online.
Footage showed the 15-year-old being dragged to the ground and having water poured into his face at a school in Huddersfield.
Prosecutors had decided there was insufficient evidence to bring charges of racially aggravated assault against his attacker, police said.
West Yorkshire Police said the victim's family had been informed.
In a statement, the force...
An Islamic academy has been attacked and vandalized for the second time in three months, head of the academy said on Tuesday.
The Bahr Academy in the city of Newcastle was attacked on Monday evening by six individuals, who broke into the school and area of worship, smashed the windows and desecrated the copies of the Quran, Imam Abdul Muhit told Anadolu Agency.
“One of the neighbors had called and told us that some people were inside the school and they were breaking stuff....