Tommy Robinson has been ordered to wage £50,000 successful tribunal costs aft helium was jailed for 18 months for contempt of tribunal implicit a libellous movie astir a Syrian refugee.
The far-right activist, whose existent sanction is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was sentenced to successful October aft the Solicitor General took ineligible enactment against him for breaching a High Court injunction made successful 2021.
Robinson, 42, admitted 10 breaches of the order, which barred him from repeating libellous allegations against a Syrian refugee.
The lawsuit relates to a video connected societal media of the exile being attacked and assaulted astatine a schoolhouse successful Huddersfield successful 2018.
After the clip went viral, Robinson falsely claimed the unfortunate had been harassing girls successful his class.
In a tribunal bid issued connected Tuesday, Mr Justice Johnson said that the Solicitor General had claimed a full of £80,350.52 successful ineligible costs, which 'does not look to beryllium disproportionate having respect to the quality of the issues successful the lawsuit and the behaviour of the defendant'.
He ruled that Robinson should wage £50,000 by 4pm connected January 7 adjacent year, with the remainder of the sum - yet to beryllium finalised - to beryllium paid to beryllium decided astatine a aboriginal date.
He said: 'I bash not see that the applicant's incarceration, oregon his claimed impecuniosity, is simply a bully crushed not to bid a outgo connected account.
Tommy Robinson (pictured) has been ordered to wage £50,000 successful tribunal costs aft helium was jailed for 18 months for contempt of tribunal implicit a libellous movie astir a Syrian refugee
Robinson screened his libellous movie to his supporters successful Trafalgar Square successful breach of a tribunal order
'Those factors mightiness marque enforcement of the bid much hard if the applicant does not voluntarily pay, but they bash not magnitude to reasons of rule wherefore the bid should not beryllium made.'
In 2021, Robinson was sued for libel by Jamal Hijazi aft the then-schoolboy was assaulted astatine Almondbury Community School successful Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, successful October 2018.
After a clip of the incidental went viral, Robinson made mendacious claims connected Facebook, including astir Mr Hijazi attacking girls successful his school, starring to the libel case.
Robinson was ordered to wage Mr Hijazi £100,000 successful damages and his ineligible costs, arsenic good arsenic making the injunction preventing Robinson from repeating the allegations helium made against the then-teenager.
The Solicitor General aboriginal issued 2 contempt claims against Robinson, claiming helium 'knowingly' breached the order, including by repeating the allegations successful a movie called Silenced.
Robinson astatine Woolwich Crown Court arsenic helium pleaded blameworthy to contempt of court
The film's accumulation was funded by InfoWars, a institution tally by US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones - who is champion known for claiming that the 2012 Sandy Hook schoolhouse massacre was a hoax.
At a proceeding astatine Woolwich Crown Court connected October 28, lawyers claimed that Robinson had been 'thumbing his chemoreceptor astatine the court' and 'undermining' the regularisation of law, including by showing Silenced astatine a objection successful Trafalgar Square successful cardinal London earlier this year.
Sentencing him, Mr Justice Johnson said that Robinson had 'not shown immoderate remorse' for his actions, which were 'a planned, deliberate, direct, flagrant breach of the court's orders'.
He said: 'Nobody is supra the law. Nobody tin prime and take which injunctions they obey and those they bash not.'
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