The extreme right-right anti-Islam activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, has lost an appeal against his 18-month prison sentence for contempt of the court.
Yaxley-Lennon was imprisoned last October after he ignored a court order not to repeat lies about a Syrian refugee, who had been successful for defamation.
The 42 -year -old appealed against the sentence on Friday, and the Court of Appeals told his segregation of others immersed in HMP Woodhill was harmful to his mental health.
In a ruling on Wednesday, Lady Justice Baroness Carr, Lord Justice Edis and Lord Justice Warby dismissed the appeal.
“The application of the judge of the law and its reasoning about the appropriate sanction in this case exhibit a meticulous approach,” they said.
After the ruling, a spokesman for the Attorney General’s office said that Yaxley-Lennon’s sentence “reflected how severely the court considers contempt.”
“We respect the decision of the court to reject permission to appeal the sentence imposed,” they added.
The last ruling marks the second defeat of the Yaxley-Lennon court in less than a month, after hey Lost a closely related challenge to his segregation in jail in March.
Yaxley-Lennon, who is from Luton, was imprisoned after violating an established court order after he lost an enormously exensive exercise trial in 2021.
The former leader of the now missing English Defense League had mistakenly affirmed in an online video that a Syrian teenager was a violent thug.
He later repeated that false accusation, including the aging of a demonstration in the London Trafalgar Square last year, and finally admitted 10 infractions of the court order.
The judge who imprisoned Yaxley-Lennon last October acknowledged that he was likely to separate himself from other inmates for his own security.
He is currently a hero in a closed wing in Woodhill in Milton Keynes, far from other prisoners, but has contact with the staff and has access to a telephone and a laptop.
