Tommy Robinson has misplaced a bid to deliver a Top Courtroom problem over his segregation in jail.
A pass judgement on has refused permission for the far-right activist’s software for a judicial evaluation after he introduced criminal complaints in opposition to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood.
The Top Courtroom used to be informed Robinson, 42, whose actual identify is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, used to be moved to a “closed” unit at Woodhill jail in Milton Keynes after intelligence steered he “can be killed via a lifer if situated on a wing”.
He used to be jailed for 18 months closing October after admitting 10 breaches of a Top Courtroom injunction, which banned him from repeating false claims a couple of Syrian refugee.
Robinson used to be to begin with taken to Belmarsh jail, in southeast London, the place he informed body of workers “his struggle is with fans of Islam”.
Symbol: HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes
However he used to be moved to Woodhill after “a big quantity of abusive and racist emails and phone calls had been gained from his supporters”, consistent with the judgment.
They integrated “threats against the (Belmarsh) governor” Jenny Louis, who’s a black lady, the pass judgement on Mr Justice Chamberlain mentioned.
Robinson’s legal professionals argued his segregation used to be a breach of his rights underneath the Ecu Conference on Human Rights and has led to an “glaring decline in his psychological well being”.
His barrister Alisdair Williamson KC mentioned the “vital Muslim inhabitants” in Woodhill seems to be “inflicting an issue” and argued he must be moved to some other prison, the place he may go along with different prisoners forward of his liberate on 26 July.
He mentioned Robinson, who he described as a journalist, suffered from ADHD and complicated post-traumatic rigidity dysfunction (PTSD) first brought about via his solitary confinement all over an previous jail sentence.
Mr Williamson mentioned that Robinson is anxious about his psychological well being on his liberate as a result of “he self-harms via abusing elements as a way to deal with the strain led to via being held in solitary confinement”.
However Tom Go, representing the federal government, mentioned it used to be “no longer an controversial declare” and published main points of the privileges loved via Robinson, who’s a Class C civil prisoner, in the back of bars.
Masses of emails, dozens of visits and 1,250 telephone calls
Woodhill jail governor Nicola Marfleet mentioned in a commentary he will get 3 hours out of his mobile each day – when he can workout, use the gymnasium or play leisure video games corresponding to pool – and some other two hours and 45 mins 3 times every week when he does portray and adorning paintings.
She mentioned he has “considerably extra consult with time than another prisoner”, with two hours, 4 occasions every 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 record 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.
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Robinson has a tv, computer – on which he receives emails “of their masses” – a CD participant and a DVD participant in his mobile, the court docket heard.
He 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.
‘No longer solitary confinement’
In a ruling, mentioning Robinson’s case used to be “no longer controversial”, the pass judgement on mentioned: “It isn’t correct to confer with Mr Yaxley-Lennon’s regime as ‘solitary confinement’ in any respect.”
He authorised the “absence of affiliation with different prisoners has an impact on his psychological well being” however mentioned it used to be “no longer controversial that the regime as an entire offers upward thrust to a breach” of his human rights.
In written submissions, the pass judgement on used to be informed after his switch to Woodhill, Robinson used to be recognized as being of “top passion” to different prisoners and used to be installed a closed wing in the back of the segregation unit, which cannot be accessed via different inmates.
Intelligence experiences steered two different prisoners had been plotting to assault Robinson to realize “kudos and notoriety”, and that he had a “mark on his head” and “can be killed via a lifer if situated on a wing”, consistent with the submissions.
The governor additionally feared Robinson’s presence on a standard wing would “exacerbate” tensions between Muslim and non-Muslim prisoners and that he might “pose a chance via looking for to radicalise and/or affect different prisoners”, consistent with her commentary.
