Reports in British press gloating and alleging that Tommy Robinson was beaten up in the prison showers are fake news

TR News and Tommy’s Telegram account, plus trusted people with whom he is allowed contact confirm that he is on an isolation wing and thus his contact with other prisoners is minimal. He certainly isn’t “strutting around” or sharing the communal ablutions. 

The Daily Star Sunday had the story first as an exclusive, repeated by the very left-leaning (used to be a great newspaper once – I learnt to read on it back in 1959) Hope not Hate bank-rolling Mirror/Sunday Mirror. 
The Daily Star Sunday’s front page is left – that doesn’t look like a 70 year old age pension drawing ‘ard man to me. 

Sources have said that Robinson strutted into prison acting “like a celebrity” but was soon being abused by black, white and Asian inmates. . . Robinson, 36, was not punched because he was a far-right activist but was “decked” for ­trying to throw his weight around. 

Robinson ­accused another inmate of “disrespecting” him when they bumped into each other in the shower block.  He is said to have tried to intimidate the pensioner who responded by dropping him with a single punch. 

A source said: “There was a bit of pushing then one prisoner, a 70-year-old, very hard pensioner, decked Robinson with a punch to the jaw. He didn’t have any idea who he had hit, but he wasn’t going to back down. Those are the rules in Belmarsh, you fight or back down.”

This story has already been repeated in the Australian press and refuted by Avi Yemeni

Flash demos and banner protests have been held in locations all over the country – bigger ones are planning for the coming weeks. For example at the Manchester United v Leeds game last week, courtesy of the BBC

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