Tommy Robinson (activist)
Stephen Yaxley - Lennon ( * 1983 in Luton), often referred to simply Stephen Lennon, is a British hooligan and leader of the far-right English Defence League ( EDL). In public, he appears as Tommy Robinson. Under this pseudonym he also wrote two books about his time as a hooligan in the Luton Town MIGs.
On 8 October 2013, the Quilliam Foundation announced that Tommy Robinson EDL and another functionary, Kevin Carroll, want to leave the organization.
Life
Stephen Yaxley - Lennon was born in 1983 in Luton UK. Around the year 2001 he was in the local hooligan scene active at the club Luton Town and was considered the leader of a violent group called Luton Town MIGs ( Men in Gear). Even then, he appeared under the pseudonym Tommy Robinson. 2006 and 2007 were published under the same name two books that told the story of a hooligan group from the internal perspective. In August 2009, Yaxley - Lennon rose to become a leading figure of the newly formed English Defence League, after he had emerged from a factional dispute as the winner. He first came into the public only masked until succeeded a photographer in April 2010 to photograph his face. In June of the same year revealed the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight, that it was to Yaxley - Lennon with Tommy Robinson, who had been sentenced to twelve months in prison for the attack on a police officer out of service and that this, contrary to its current distance themselves from the far-right British National Party ( BNP) was the member for twelve months. 2011 denied Yaxley Lennon claims by Anders Behring Breivik, after which these have extensive contacts with the EDL and have attended one of their demonstrations in Bradford. He described Breivik in a documentary called " Monster", was, however, at the same time, to share its ideology.
On January 7, 2013 Yaxley - Lennon was convicted by a British court to ten months in prison, because he had entered with the passport of a friend's illegal in the United States. He appealed against the verdict and was fitted on 22 February 2013, an electronic tracking system and from custody in which he had been since the end of October last year, dismissed.
Publications
- Tommy Robinson: Mig Down. Pennant Books, 2006. ISBN 0,955,039,401th
- Tommy Robinson: MIG Crew. Pennant Books, 2007. ISBN 1,906,015,414th