The Syrian refugee, Jamal Hijazi is bringing a libel claim against Tommy Robinson, who is relying on a defence of truth. But the judge accepted amendments to Robinson’s existing defence of truth, where the 37-year-old added further details to allegations of violence by Jamal as well as three new incidents, which will be tested at trial. Robinson claimed the video of the attack was published and a GoFundMe fundraising page set up to present a false image of Jamal for financial gain. Robinson’s lawyers said Jamal ‘had a financial interest in misrepresenting the playing ground incident as one of the racist bullying of a refugee, in order to maximise his income from the GoFundMe page’, adding the teenager may have alternatively been used by others to raise the funds.
Tommy Robinson Part 16
