Stephen Yaxley-Lennon
Tommy Robinson is the pseudonym of the leading figure in the English Defence League. According to the Guardian, he is a 28-year-old carpenter from Luton.[1]
In its July 2010 edition, Searchlight magazine named Robinson as Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, a former BNP member from Bedford sentenced to 12 months imprisonment in 2005 for assaulting an off-duty police officer.[2]
Contact
- Defunct Facebook page Tommy Robinson
External Resources
- Nick Lowles and Simon Cressy, The BNP past of the EDL leader, Searchlight, July 2010.
- Richard Bartholomew, Searchlight Names EDL Leader “Tommy Robinson” as Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, Bartholomew's Notes on Religion, 26 June 2010.
Notes
- ↑ Robert Booth, Matthew Taylor and Paul Lewis, English Defence League: chaotic alliance stirs up trouble on streets, The Guardian, 12 September 2007.
- ↑ Nick Lowles and Simon Cressy, The BNP past of the EDL leader, Searchlight, July 2010.
