LONDON: Tommy Robinson, a British far-right extremist, was freed from prison after his sentence was shortened by four months. For contempt of court, the 42-year-old—real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon—was imprisoned in October.
After the High Court lowered his 18-month term last week, he was released from Woodhill jail on Tuesday. He initially acknowledged breaking an order that forbade him from making false accusations against Jamal Hijazi, which led to the issuance of his punishment.
A fellow student at Almondbury Community School in the English town of Huddersfield attacked the Syrian refugee, who was a youngster at the time of the well-publicized event in October 2018. After a video of the attack went viral, Robinson made untrue statements about Hijazi, who filed a libel lawsuit against him.
Robinson was ordered to stop making the fraudulent claims and to pay Hijazi’s legal fees and damages of £100,000 ($135,000). Robinson was imprisoned after he acknowledged breaking the injunction ten times.
Robinson showed “absence of contrition or remorse” after the High Court judge ordered his early release last week. Still, he also stated that “he has given an assurance that he will comply with the injunction in the future, that he has no intention of breaching it again, and that he is aware of the consequences of what would happen if he breached the injunction again.
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