Tuesday 4 November, 2025
UK Nationalist Tommy Robinson Robinson was today cleared of trumped up terror charges at Westminster magistrates’ court.
The trial waa the result of Robinson beinf stopped in his car at the Channel Tunnel in Folkestone in July 2024 and accused of “frustration” of police counter-terrorism powers after refusing to provide police officers with his mobile phone PIN.
District Judge Sam Goozee pronounced Robinson not guilty of failing to comply with the counter-terrorism powers during the incident on July 28 last year, saying “I cannot put out of my mind that it was actually what you stood for and your political beliefs that acted as the principal reason for this stop.”
Robinson, who organised the recent million - strong protest against mass immigration which brought central London to a standstill in September, has long been a thorn in the side of Britain's globalist political establishment but now his popularity among young, working class males is now scaring the authorities witless and this verdict will have them in a blind panic as many pundits have said the UK population is on the brink of revolution.
He also said PC Mitchell Thorogood’s decision to stop Robinson was based on a “protected characteristic”, adding: “I cannot convict you.”
At the time, Kent Police said Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley - Lennon, was detained by officers under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Under this legislation, police are allowed to stop anyone passing through a UK port “to determine whether they may be involved or concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism”.
A person who is detained under this law can be held for up to six hours, is legally obliged to answer questions and must provide the password or PIN for electronic devices, or be held to have committed a criminal offence if they refuse.
Robinson was charged with one count of failing to provide the Pin to his mobile phone under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000, police said.
In fact he judge was absolutely brutal in his takedown of the police. He said that the evidence was unreliable and lacked credibility and surmised that the principal reason why Robinson
was arrested and prosecuted was not anything he said or did that could in any way be linked to terrorism.
The judge said he acquitted for two reasons. number one um that he could not separate the politics from what the police did. There was no evidence that they arrested him or stopped him for any suspicion of terrorism, but rather that 10 years ago he was with a political movement called the EDL or the English Defense League. The judge pointedly reminded police that a person's political beliefs are a protected characteristic. You can't target someone because of their religion or because of their politics. If that moves into terrorist activity, fine, says the judge, but there was no evidence whatsoever of that happening.
It was actually quite a blistering takedown. The judge went through each of
the police officer witnesses and basically said, "I don't believe them. They are not credible."
So we learn from this wek's mainstream news coverage that refusing to give a phone PIN code to a police officer is construed as an act of terrorism, leading to a charge and appearance in court. Whereas , according the the UK justice system ,rampaging through a train stabbing innocent people at random is not to be an act of terrorism.
As the law stands, not disclosing a PIN number is not an act of terrorism, however it is an offence under the terrorism legislation if an individual who is a terrorist suspect refuses to disclose a PIN. The police must have reasonable grounds to suspect the individual is a terrorist or involved with another or others who are.
The police cannot lawfully demand a PIN number from just anybody. That is why the prosecution’s case failed, and the judge said there were no grounds to suspect Tommy Robinson was a terror suspect. Using the terrorise act was a gross abuse of the law and police misconduct.
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