Anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson has lost a High Court libel case brought by a Syrian schoolboy.
Jamal Hijazi was filmed being attacked in the playground at Almondbury School in Huddersfield in October 2018.
The English Defence League founder, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, claimed Mr Hijazi attacked “young English girls”.
Mr Justice Nicklin ruled in Mr Hijazi’s favour and granted him £100,000 in damages.
A Syrian schoolboy had to flee his home and faced death threats after Tommy Robinson used social media to spread extremist views about him, a court heard.
The English Defence League founder – whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – is being sued by Jamal Hijazi, 17.
The teenager was filmed being attacked in the playground at Almondbury School in Huddersfield in November 2018.
Shortly after the footage went viral, Robinson claimed in two Facebook videos that Jamal was ‘not innocent and he violently attacks young English girls in his school’.
