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# Tommy Wins!
- URL: https://goodoil.news/tommy-wins/
- Published: 2025-11-04T22:30:01.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-04T22:30:00.000Z
- Description: Ridiculous ‘terror’ charges thrown out.
- Author: Lushington Brady
- Tags: UK Politics, Law

In a rare win for sanity in an increasingly deranged British state, **Tommy Robinson** has walked free from the UK’s two-tier police state’s latest effort at vexatious lawfare.

> [Tommy Robinson has ](https://www.gbnews.com/news/tommy-robinson-cleared-terror-charge?ref=goodoil.news)been found not guilty of a terror offence of failing to provide police with the pin to his mobile phone at the Channel Tunnel in Folkestone in July 2024.

As [I’ve explained](https://goodoil.news/what-are-your-rights-if-cops-knock-on-your-door/) in several posts, in Britain, as in New Zealand and Australia, police cannot simply demand to access your phone. They must either have a warrant or, in extreme cases, if a warrantless search power applies. Such cases are extremely limited. ‘We just reckon’, won’t cut it.

> Robinson, whose real name is **Stephen Yaxley-Lennon**, was driving a silver Bentley Bentayga SUV to the Spanish tourist hotspot of Benidorm when he was stopped by officers at the Channel Tunnel in Folkestone.  
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> Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard how police were suspicious of the 42-year-old’s “vague replies” about what he was doing and demanded access to his iPhone under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act.

Even in a degraded system like Britain, that is so obviously ludicrous that it couldn’t stick.

> District Judge **Sam Goozee** found Robinson not guilty of failing to comply with the counter-terrorism powers during the incident on July 28 last year.

Robinson was, in effect, arrested for nothing more than being an enemy of the state.

> Robinson, who was recognised by police, was led to an interview room and his phone was seized, the court heard.  
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> On the way there, he tried to film a video of himself saying he had been arrested, and was told by officers to “relax”, the trial was told.

Just like doctors say when they’re about to shove a stainless steel torture device up your jacksie... Robinson responded in no less fashion than these tit-headed bullies deserved.

Asked to hand over the phone’s pin, Robinson replied: “Not a chance bruv … you look like c\*\*\*s so you ain’t having it. It’s my work: I’m a journalist,” he said, adding that the phone held information about “vulnerable girls”.

His only ‘crime’, again, was being Tommy Robinson.

> Defending **Alisdair Williamson** KC had said the stop and detention was unlawful because officers had taken a “discriminatory stance” based on their knowledge of Robinson’s political views.  
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> Mr Williamson said the officers’ intervention was discriminatory because it was based to a “significant degree on a protected characteristic”.  
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> He said the “predominant influence” on PC **Mitchell Thorogood**’s decision to stop him was “‘oh look, it’s Tommy Robinson’”.  
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> Mr Williamson added: “If MI5 didn’t think that Mr Lennon is a terrorist, what did PC Thorogood think he was going to learn by asking him about publicly available information?”  
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> He suggested Robinson travelled to Benidorm regularly, which should have lessened the officer’s suspicions about him.

Next step should be Tommy sues these bastards to hell and back for wrongful arrest.

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