One of the many problems with the right wing is that they don't have many heroes on their side of the fence so they tend to congregate around some less than savoury characters which is why they have been clamouring over Stephen Yaxley-Lennon or Tommy Robinson as he calls himself now.
Yaxley-Lennon has been freed from prison on bail after winning an appeal against a contempt of court conviction although most of his supporters seemed to think he was imprisoned for some sort of 'free speech' infringement.
In truth, the sun bed shop owner was warned about live videoing a criminal trial, was warned to stop, then given a suspended sentence and when he still carried on, was jailed for 13 months so no free speech issues there.
The EDL leader admitted the charge and deleted the offending material but it isn't the first time Yaxley-Lennon has had a close up view of a prison cell.
He had previously been handed a suspended sentence for contempt of court after live-streaming at another case in Canterbury in 2017. Among other arrests, he was also previously detained for 'incitement' after a protest in 2013, and was jailed for 18 months for mortgage fraud in 2014.
He has a previous conviction for assaulting an off duty policeman, serving a 12-month sentence that time and in 2011 was convicted of using 'threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour' at a football riot and was handed a 12-month community rehabilitation order with 150 hours unpaid work and a three-year ban from attending football matches.
He was arrested again after an EDL demonstration for breach of bail conditions and was later convicted of common assault after headbutting a fellow EDL member at a rally for which he enjoyed a 12 month suspended prison sentence.
He was also sentenced to 3 days prison and a £3,000 fine for protesting on the rooftop of the FIFA headquarters in Zürich.
Yaxley-Lennon may be a free man today but as the court of appeal ordered that he should be retried on the contempt of court charge due to 'procedural deficiencies', he will probably be back in soon anyway.
Talking sense to the racist right wing is no use as they are too busy trying to work out the front and back of their Union Jack underpants but the fact they are rallying around the cause for a violent football hooligan and fraudster should tell you all you need to know about them.
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