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Tommy Robinson has revealed via his own X (Twitter) social media account that, whilst he was detained last night over the alleged St Pancras assault (read more here), he was arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service over these allegations relating to three posts sent out from the same @TRobinsonNewEra X account:

S179 Online Safety Act – Without reasonable excuse sent a message conveying information known to be false intending, at the time of sending, the message, or the information in it, to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience.

S127(1) Communications Act – A person is guilty of an offence if he: (a) sends by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character; or (b )causes any such message or matter to be so sent.

The three posts over which he was interviewed by police are pictured on his X account but are not reproduced here for legal reasons.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, concludes his message with a single sentence: “Free Speech is dead in the UK under the Keir Starmer regime” and tags in the X owner, Elon Musk.

It is inferred from those actions that the far-right activist will contest the allegations and, again, seek financial support from Musk in doing so.

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