The 42-year-old was detained by the British Transport Police after disembarking from a flight from Portugal.
Police in the UK have arrested the anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant activist Tommy Robinson on suspicion of assault, following an assault final month at London’s St Pancras station.
The far-right campaigner, whose actual identify is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was arrested at about 6.30pm (17:30 GMT) on Monday night at Luton airport, which is situated north of the English capital.
Robinson had simply landed there on a flight from the Portuguese metropolis of Faro.
His detention comes per week on from the alleged assault at one in every of London’s essential railway terminals.
“The person had been wished for questioning after leaving the nation to Tenerife within the early hours of 29 July following the incident at St Pancras,” the British Transport Police (BTP) stated on Monday night.
He’ll now be questioned in custody “on suspicion of… grievous bodily hurt”, the BTP added.
Though the assertion didn’t straight identify Robinson, he was proven in a video of the incident that was broadly circulated on-line.
Within the footage, the previous founding father of the far-right English Defence League is seen strolling close to a immobile man, claiming to have acted in self-defence.
The opposite man was taken to hospital with critical accidents, which the police stated have been “not considered life threatening”.
Robinson has quite a few convictions for public order and contempt offences.
In Could, he was launched from a jail in Buckinghamshire 4 months early, after the excessive court docket lower his 18-month sentence.
He was imprisoned in October 2024 for contempt of court docket after admitting that he had flouted an injunction that prevented him from repeating false claims a few Syrian schoolboy.
The injunction got here into drive after the far-right activist misplaced a libel case towards Jamal Hijazi, a Syrian refugee whom Robinson was judged to have defamed.
Robinson has been described by the advocacy group Hope Not Hate as “the UK’s most infamous far-right extremist”.
Earlier this yr, tech billionaire and former adviser to United States President Donald Trump, Elon Musk referred to as for Robinson to be free of a UK jail the place he was held on the time, and the place he’s more likely to be returning after his newest arrest.