The extreme right activist was imprisoned in October last year after admitting multiple violations of an order of the Superior Court held in 2021.
This forbade him to repeat false accusations against a Syrian refugee who host him successfully for Lurbel.
He is scheduled to be released from custody on July 26, in the middle of his sentence.
Tommy Robinson has lost an appeal against his 18 -month prison sentence for contempt of the court.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was imprisoned in October last year. pic.twitter.com/9q5NKXquef
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Robinson appealed against his sentence on Friday, and the Court of Appeals said that his mental health, combined with his segregation in prison, is “making him sick” and has a “demonstrable effect” on him.
The attorney general opposed the appeal of the 42 -year -old man, with his lawyers stating that “there are no reasons to alter prayer.”
On a ruling on Wednesday, Lady Justice Baroness Carr, Lord Justice Edis and Lord Justice Warby dismissed the appeal.
They said: “The application of the judge of the law and its reasoning on the appropriate sanction in this case exhibit a meticulous approach.”
The decision marks Robinson’s second defeat in less than a month, after an attempt to present a legal challenge against the government about his segregation at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes was expelled from the Superior Court in March.
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He was imprisoned in Woolwich Crown Court after admitting 10 infractions of the court order, last year, the general talk issued two contempt claims last year.
The first alleged that “knowingly” violated the order four times, even for “published, caused, authorized or acquired” a film called Silence, which contains the defamatory accusations, in May 2023.
The film was set at the top of Robinson’s profile on the social media site X, while also repeated the statements in three interviews between February and June 2023.
The second claim was issued in August with respect to six additional infractions, including the interpretation of the film in a demonstration in Trafalgar Square in downtown London last summer.
Delivering the sentence in October, Judge Johnson said that “no one is above the law”, and described Robinson’s infractions about the court order as “flagrant.”
The judge said Robinson could reduce his sentence in four months if he touched certain steps to “purge” his contempt, such as eliminating the film from his social media pages.
In the Court of Appeals, Alisdair Williamson KC, for Robinson, said he has ADHD and “complex posttraumatic stress disorder”, which the judgment judge was not very conscious.
He said: “(Mr. Justice Johnson) did not have this additional factor before him, which in Itsef means that the conditions faced by Mr. Yaxley-Lennon are greater.”
Robinson made false claims on Facebook
He continued: “The authorities in segregation are safe, but staying safe is getting sick, and more sick than Mr. Justice Johnson could be planned about the information before him.”
Aidan Eardley KC, by the Attorney General, said in the written presentations that “there is no evidence that the conditions in which the appellant is a more severe hero than what was anticipated” by Mr. Johnson.
He said: “Legally, there is no basic to argue that the imposing conditions for relatives imposed by the prison authorities could find a reason for appeal.”
He continued: “There are no reasons to alter prayer in this case.”
In a 15 -page failure, Baroness Carr, Lord Justice Edis and Lord Justice Warby said that the new evidence on Robinson’s mental health “does not show a significant exacerbation of a known medical or material factor.”
They said: “Even taking the case of appellant at their maximum being higher, we do not see a reasonable basic for the statement that the conditions it is experiencing are so substantially worse than the anticipated judge at the time of the sanction to request a decline.” “” “” “” “” “. ”
They continued: “The evidence is not below the standard for a successful criminal appeal based on new medical tests.”
They added that Robinson could “still reduce the period that has to spend in custody taking the identified steps” by Mr. Justice Johnson.
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After the ruling, a spokesman for the Office of the Attorney General said: “Stephen Yaxley-Lennon repeatedly ignored the orders of the judges and continued spreading defamatory accusations.
“Its 18 -month sentence reflected how severely the court considers contemplating.
“We respect the decision of the court to reject permission to appeal the sentence imposed.”
The court order was issued after Robinson was successful by Jamal Hijazi, a school boy who was attacked at the Almondbury community school in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, in October 2018.
After a clip of the viral incident, Robinson made false statements on Facebook, even about Mr. Hijazi attacking girls in their school, which led to the defamation case.
Mr. Justice Nicklin ordered Robinson to pay Mr. Hijazi £ 100,000 in damages and their legal costs, in addition to making the prevention of Robinson injury repeat the accusations.
