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By Sertan Sanderson Published on : 2021/07/23
A judge in the UK has ordered a British far-right figurehead to pay £100,000 to a young Syrian national in a high-profile libel case. However, the claimant may never see much of the money as the defendant has stated that he is insolvent.
English Defence League (EDL) founder Tommy Robinson has lost a libel case brought by Syrian schoolboy Jamal Hijazi who was filmed while being attacked at Almondbury Community School in Huddersfield in 2018.
The video of the assault went viral with nearly one million views when Robinson alleged in two Facebook videos that Hijazi was not innocent and that he violently attacks young English girls in his school. Robinson claimed in those videos that Hijazi beat a girl black and blue and that he had threatened to stab another boy.
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By Press Association 2021
Tommy Robinson court case
Tommy Robinson will find out whether he has won or lost a libel case brought against him by a Syrian schoolboy who was filmed being attacked at school.
The English Defence League founder – whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – is being sued by Jamal Hijazi, who was recorded being bullied in the playground at Almondbury Community School in Huddersfield in October 2018.
Shortly after the video went viral, Robinson claimed in two Facebook videos, which were viewed by nearly one million people, that Jamal was “not innocent and he violently attacks young English girls in his school”.