Far-right activist, Tommy Robinson, was released from prison today (Friday September 13) after serving nine weeks of a nine-month sentence.
The former English Defence League founder, 36, emerged from HMP Belmarsh with a shaggy beard.
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Metro reports that Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, said of his new, scruffy bearded look: “I look like a little cowardly convert. Salaam alaikum”
He was also quoted as saying that he was visited in prison by an imam every day, but it took 16 days for a Christian representative to visit him.
The first stop after his release was reportedly McDonald’s.
Robinson was jailed earlier this year after filming defendants outside of Leeds Crown Court in a grooming trial and live-streaming it on Facebook in 2018.
His actions almost caused the collapse of the trial.
After he was sentenced for contempt of court, the Attorney General said: “
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