Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm after a man was allegedly assaulted at London’s St Pancras station.
The 42-year-old was detained by officers from the British Transport Police (BTP) at Luton Airport as he stepped off a flight from Faro, Portugal, on Monday evening.
Robinson, a former leader of the English Defence League whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is currently facing a number of criminal investigations or proceedings.
He also remains bound by the terms of an injunction which last year led to his imprisonment for contempt of court.
Police had sought Robinson for questioning after he left the country in the early hours of 29 July bound for Tenerife following an assault at London’s St Pancras station the previous evening.
His arrest followed the incident in which a 64-year-old man was taken to hospital after video footage showed him lying on the ground. The recording does not show how the man came to be on the floor.
Police said last week that the man had suffered “serious but non-life threatening injuries” following an assault on 28 July. The man has since been released from hospital, according to police.
Footage posted on social media showed Robinson, who had been leafleting at the station, walking back and forth in the vicinity of the man. The activist can be heard saying to onlookers: “He’s come at me bruv.”
Robinson left the UK in the hours after the incident, arriving in Tenerife before then travelling to the Algarve. He returned to Britain on Monday evening.
In a statement, the BTP did not name Robinson but said it had been notified that a 42-year-old man wanted in connection with the assault was arriving on board a flight from Portugal.
The police force said: “He was arrested on suspicion of GBH and will now be taken to custody for questioning.”
Robinson had not been charged at the time of publication with any offence in connection with the incident.
Journalist harassment charges
The activist is currently facing trial for two charges of harassment causing fear of violence in connection with his interactions with two reporters from The Daily Mail.
Robinson last month entered not guilty pleas to the accusations at an appearance at Southwark Crown Court in south London before a five-day trial scheduled to take place in October next year.
Details of charges read out to the court stated that Robinson is claimed to have used social media postings and a phone call to harass the journalists, allegedly telling them “I’m coming to get you” and “I’ll be knocking at your door”.
The court was told that the alleged harassment took place between 5 and 7 August last year.
In a previous court hearing related to the charges, prosecutors told the proceedings that none of the alleged harassment contained direct threats of violence.
Following that hearing, Robinson said he had “never had” the opportunity to have a jury trial and wanted “12 members of the British public” to hear the evidence in the case.
In October last year Robinson was jailed for contempt of court following multiple breaches of an injunction imposed upon him after he lost a libel case brought against him by a Syrian refugee.
The far-right campaigner had been ordered to pay damages to the teenager in 2021 after he was found to have posted false and defamatory claims in a Facebook video about the youngster after he was attacked in school.
A judge ruled that Robinson had made out the refugee, who was 15 at the time of the attack against him, to be a “violent aggressor” when he was in fact the victim of a school playground attack.
Robinson was subsequently made the subject of a High Court injunction barring him from repeating the claims he had made against the teenage refugee.
The anti-Islam activist was found in October 2024 to have breached that injunction ten times, including by recording a film which was screened in London’s Trafalgar Square. He was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment of contempt of court.
A bearded Robinson was released from Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes in May this year after the High Court reduced his sentence following undertakings from him that he would comply with the court order and had taken steps including the removal of material deemed to have breached the injunction.
Ordering his release, the judge noted there had been an “absence of contrition or remorse” from Robinson, but added: “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.”
The court heard that Robinson is not subject to any licence conditions related to the contempt conviction but could face fresh proceedings if the injunction was found to have been breached again.
Mobile phone PIN charge
Robinson is due to stand trial next year for an offence under terrorism legislation related to an allegation that he failed to provide police with the PIN to his mobile phone.
The charge relates to an incident at the Channel Tunnel in Folkestone, Kent in July last year when he was stopped by officers under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
This legislation gives powers for police to search and detain individuals, including their electronic devices, at the UK border.
Robinson has denied the charge against him.
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