Tommy Robinson’s ‘lies’ about Syrian schoolboy forced family to flee, court told
by Ben Quinn from World news | The Guardian on (#5GWBS)
EDL founder claimed Jamal Hijazi was not innocent' after footage of attack on student went viral
The family of a Syrian schoolboy who was filmed being attacked in a Huddersfield playground had to flee the town after the far-right campaigner Tommy Robinson aired entirely distorted anti-Muslim" claims about him, a court has been told.
The founder of the English Defence League (EDL) - whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - is being sued by the family of Jamal Hijazi after he peddled false and defamatory lies" online about the teenager.
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