On May 8th, the citizen journalist and two cameramen from Rebel Media had filmed at Canterbury Crown Court, looking to interview one of four male suspects accused of raping a 16-year-old girl in Ramsgate, Kent.
(The four suspects,*Tamin Rahmani, 37, Shershah Muslimyar, 20, Rafiullah Hamidy, 24, and Hamid Mohamadi, 18, were all*found guilty*of gang-raping the teen three weeks later.)
Crown Courts are open to the press, but any filming and recording in court buildings*is illegal under section 41 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925 and the Contempt of Court Act,
with judges*now claiming that this can extend to “court precincts” — although mainstream press regularly congregate outside court buildings without sanction.
Robinson was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, with the sentence suspended for 18 months.
One year later, Robinson was detained outside Leeds Crown Court on Friday 25th of May 2018 after using social media to broadcast details of an ongoing trial
which had been reported by the local press initially, but was later subject to blanket reporting restrictions.
The activist*pleaded guilty*to contempt of court on*Friday and was handed a 13-month prison sentence: 10 months for contempt of court, and a further three months for breaching the suspended sentence — to be served consecutively rather than concurrently, which is unusual.
In what Leeds Live called a “rare move”,
Robinson had been arrested, brought before a judge, and sentenced within five hours.
AW: Tommy Robinson zum Tode verurteilt.
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