English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson has lost a High Court libel case brought by a Syrian schoolboy who was filmed being attacked at school.
The far-right activist was sued by Jamal Hijazi, who was assaulted in the playground at Almondbury Community School in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, in October 2018.
Shortly after the video of the incident went viral, Robinson claimed in two Facebook videos that Jamal was “not innocent and he violently attacks young English girls in his school”.
At a four-day trial in April, Jamal’s lawyers said Robinson’s comments had “a devastating effect” on the schoolboy and his family, who had come to the UK as refugees from Homs, Syria.
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