Robinson, a one-time football hooligan with a string of UK criminal convictions, is serving an 18-month jail term after he admitted contempt of court in a long-running libel case involving a Syrian refugee.

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    9 days ago

    The article doesn’t even say what that dude was imprisoned for.

    Being right wing isn’t a crime on it’s own. It’s like bunch of stupids are writing a sensationalist piece for other stupids to be angry about.

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      Contempt of court (this time). He was found to have libelled a 15 year old refugee a few years back, and having already had an injunction placed against him to stop repeating the libel he did so a third time anyway and the courts got fed up with his shit

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      9 days ago

      Read it again. It literally says why he’s serving 18 months. Hell, even the OP shared that paragraph.

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      Yes it does, contempt of court during a long running libel case