{"id":3457,"date":"2026-10-28T22:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2026-10-28T22:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:03:56","slug":"uk-anti-islam-activist-robinson-convicted-of-harassing-two-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3457","title":{"rendered":"UK anti-Islam activist Robinson convicted of harassing two journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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British anti-Islam activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, was convicted on Wednesday of harassing two journalists \u200bduring nationwide rioting two years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robinson said before his trial \u200cbegan that billionaire X owner Elon Musk, who often reposts Robinson and allowed him to return to the social media platform, was supporting his \u200bdefence.<\/p>\n

Musk also last year paid for Robinson\u2019s defence when he \u200bwas charged with failing to provide his phone PIN \u2060to police, for which he was cleared by a judge, and \u200bMusk virtually attended a rally in London organised by Robinson last year.<\/p>\n

Robinson \u2013 \u200bwho stood trial at London\u2019s Southwark Crown Court under the name Stephen Lennon \u2013 was charged with two counts of harassment causing fear of violence, relating \u200bto messages and calls to two Daily Mail journalists in \u200b2024.<\/p>\n

After three young girls were murdered in the northern town of Southport that \u200cJuly, \u2060Robinson repeatedly posted about the killings as riots spread across Britain.<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail tracked Robinson down to Cyprus, where he was on holiday with his family, and published a story which \u200baccused him of \u201cstoking \u200brace riots from \u2060his sunbed\u201d.<\/p>\n

Robinson repeatedly contacted two journalists involved in the story, posted several messages about them on \u200bX and said he had photos of their \u200bhome address \u2060and family.<\/p>\n

Robinson claimed he had only intended to put pressure on the journalists and the Daily Mail to remove a picture of \u2060his \u200bex-wife from their website.<\/p>\n

But he was \u200bfound guilty by a 10-2 majority on Wednesday and released on bail ahead of \u200bhis sentencing in December.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

British anti-Islam activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, was convicted on Wednesday of harassing two journalists \u200bduring nationwide rioting two years ago. Robinson said before his trial \u200cbegan that billionaire X owner Elon Musk, who often reposts Robinson and allowed him to return to the social media platform, was supporting his \u200bdefence. Musk also last year paid for Robinson\u2019s defence when he \u200bwas charged with failing to provide his phone PIN \u2060to police, for which he was cleared by a judge, and \u200bMusk virtually attended a rally in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}