Tommy Robinson is being refrained from different prisoners over fears he’ll be killed via any other inmate, a court docket has heard.
The far-right political activist was once jailed for 18 months ultimate October after admitting 10 breaches of a Prime Courtroom injunction, which banned him from repeating false claims a few Syrian refugee.
Robinson, 42, whose actual title is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has implemented for a judicial assessment to problem his ongoing segregation at Woodhill jail, in Milton Keynes.
He was once moved to a “closed” unit after intelligence prompt he “could be killed via a lifer if situated on a wing”, in step with written prison submissions made at London’s Prime Courtroom.
His attorneys argued his segregation breaches his rights below the Ecu Conference on Human Rights and has brought about an “glaring decline in his psychological well being”.
His barrister Alisdair Williamson KC stated the “important Muslim inhabitants” in Woodhill seems to be “inflicting an issue” and argued he must be moved to any other prison, the place he may go along with different prisoners.
However Tom Go, representing Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood, stated it was once “now not an debatable declare” and detailed the privileges loved via Robinson at the back of bars.
Symbol: HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes
‘Extra discuss with time than every other prisoner’
Jail governor Nicola Marfleet stated in a observation Robinson will get 3 hours out of his mobile each day – when he can workout, use the gymnasium or play leisure video games reminiscent of pool – and any other 2 hours and 45 mins 3 times per week when he does portray and adorning paintings.
She stated he has “considerably extra discuss with time than every other prisoner”, with two hours, 4 instances per week, in a room described as “extra casual and relaxed”, the place he can absorb meals he is purchased from the canteen.
Robinson has 120 other folks on his guests checklist and has had 93 visits, whilst he can use the telephone for 4 hours an afternoon and has made greater than 1,250 social calls.
He has a tv, pc – on which he receives emails “of their masses” – a CD participant and a DVD participant in his mobile, the court docket heard.
Robinson, who’s a Class C civil prisoner, additionally attends a weekly bible consultation and has day by day visits from a member of the chaplaincy workforce and day by day visits from an NHS physician or nurse.
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In written submissions, the pass judgement on was once advised Robinson was once segregated in Belmarsh jail, southeast London, at the first day of his sentence after pronouncing he had war with fans of Islam.
He was once transferred to Woodhill, the place he was once known as being of “top hobby” to different prisoners and was once installed a closed wing behind the segregation unit, which cannot be accessed via different prisoners.
‘Mark on his head’
Intelligence reviews prompt two different prisoners have been plotting to assault Robinson to achieve “kudos and notoriety”, and that he had a “mark on his head” and “could be killed via a lifer if situated on a wing”, in step with the submissions.
A bearded Robinson seemed on the listening to via jail video-link, dressed in a gray sweater and blue shorts.
After a wreck for him to offer his barrister directions, he held up a handwritten notice to the digicam pronouncing: “They reduce my telephone off. They have been listening after they reduce it off”.
Mr Williamson stated Robinson advised him he was once best allowed to paintings for 90 mins per week cleansing cells, is locked in on his personal when he makes use of the gymnasium, and was once refused a request to go along with an old-fashioned buddy, who’s a Muslim and being held in the similar jail.
The barrister stated Robinson, who he described as a journalist, suffered from ADHD and complicated post-traumatic tension dysfunction (PTSD) first induced via his solitary confinement right through an previous jail sentence.
In proceedings made via Robinson learn out in court docket, he stated “the solitary confinement has destroyed my thoughts” and he was once “scared of the long-term penalties”.
“I imagine that is politically motivated as a result of my activism and ideology,” he stated.
Mr Williamson stated that Robinson is anxious about his well being on his liberate as a result of “he self-harms via abusing ingredients with a purpose to deal with the strain brought about via being held in solitary confinement”.
The pass judgement on, Mr Justice Chamberlain stated he would hand down his judgment on Friday.
