Police who stopped Tommy Robinson ‘had reasonable suspicion’ of far-right links

Activist refused to give police his phone pin when stopped at Channel tunnel in July 2024

Police officers who stopped Tommy Robinson as he tried to leave the UK last year had reasonable suspicions that his phone contained information relevant to acts of terrorism, prosecutors have told his trial.

The far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, refused to give police the pin for his phone because it had “journalistic material on it” after they stopped him at the Channel tunnel on 28 July 2024.