Sign up to FREE email alerts from KentLive - Daily Subscribe Thank you for subscribing See our privacy notice Invalid Email

The leader of far-right group Britain First was beaten up in prison by an Iraqi asylum seeker, it has been claimed.

It emerged last week that Paul Golding had his nose broken after being attacked by two inmates in HMP Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey.

One of the attackers is said to be Nasir Muhsen, who was jailed for six-and-a-half years for looting in the 2011 London riots.

The young asylum seeker is now serving another sentence for brutally attacking a prison officer at Rochester prison with a metal tray.

Kent Police is now investigating the attack on Golding which is said to have been launched just hours after his arrival on March 14.

A source told The Sun: "It’s hardly rocket science to think Golding and the likes of Muhsen might not get on.

"Officials are just glad it wasn’t worse.”

Paul Golding is serving an 18 week sentence at HMP Elmley after he was convicted alongside Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen for religiously aggravated harassment.

'Brutal and emotive rape'

The pair were jailed at Folkestone Magistrates' Court for abusing a number of Muslims they incorrectly assumed were involved in the rape of a teenage girl in Ramsgate.

The pair launched a tirade of abuse outside 555 Pizza - the takeaway restaurant where the young girl was raped above - which had a number of family members of one of the defendants inside.

Fransen was also found to have distributed leaflets of a man incorrectly identified as Shershah Muslimyar - one of gang rapists - and showed up outside Muslimyar's old house in Hovenden Close, Canterbury.

She was also convicted of visiting the Ramsgate home of another defendant, Tamin Rahmani, and shouting racist abuse through the front door while his pregnant partner Kelli Best was there.

District Judge Barron said the pair were clearly "hostile to Muslims and immigrants" and used the "particularly brutal and emotive rape" - which involved Muslim immigrants - for their own ends.

Time Line As it happened: Britain First trial May 3, 2017: Four men go on trial for raping a girl above a takeaway in Ramsgate Canterbury Crown Court is told the shocking case of three men and a boy accused of gang raping a drunk 16-year-old girl above a pizza shop. The girl had been lost and asked for directions after a night out, and was taken up to a flat above 555 Pizza on Northwood Road. Takeaway owner Tamin Rahmani, 38, alongside takeaway workers Shershah Muslimyar, 21, and Rafiullah Hamidy, 24, are all accused of three counts of rape. A 17-year-old boy, who could not be named for legal reasons, is also charged with the same offence. All three takeaway workers and the youth denied the rape, but were found guilty after a four week long trial. They are now serving a combined 49 year jail sentence. May 5, 2017: Jayda Fransen launches a tirade of abuse outside 555 Pizza shop Fransen and Golding turn up outside 555 Pizza, where the girl was raped upstairs. The man they were looking for - Tamin Rahmani, the owner of the takeaway - was not there. Inside the takeaway is the mother of his children and his 12 and 13-year-old daughters, along with another man. While being filmed by Golding, Fransen is banging on the window and shouts: “Using these restaurant to trap young girls, English girls and rape them. "You dirty monsters. “You are all going to be exposed. "Come outside and face me". The girls are said to be left "crying" and "shaken up". May 5, 2017: The pair approach the brother of one of the rapists outside court Tamin Rahmani's brother Faiz is outside Canterbury Crown Court having a cigarette with Rahmani and his solicitor when Fransen approaches him. Faiz Rahmani told the court: “That lady with red hair approached me and she told me that 'you are a Muslim rapist!’” Both Fransen and Golding were cleared of this offence. May 4 to May 10, 2017: Homes leafleted incorrectly identifying the brother as a rapist Fransen distributes leaflets in Canterbury entitled ‘exposing Muslim rapists in Hovenden Close.' On the leaflets is Faiz Rahmani, the brother of Tamin Rahmani, who has been incorrectly identified as Shershah Muslimyar - one of the other men later convicted of rape. She has turned up Muslimyar's old address, who the court is told has not lived there for two to three years. She is seen on video shouting outside: "We don’t want these dirty Mulslim paedophile b**tards touching our kids’". The man living at the address was forced to move, whilst Faiz Rahmani was left fearful he would be attacked. May 9, 2017: Fransen comes to the home of Tamin Rahmani's pregnant partner In one video Fransen is filmed outside a home in Gwynn Road, Ramsgate. She says this is where Tamin Rahmani lives- one of the rapists who owned the kebab shop. Inside is Kelli Best, the pregnant partner of Rahmani, who was bathing her two young children. She is seen looking outside for Rahmani, shouting: “Dirty Muslim rapists come out, we are not going to leave. Come out.” Miss Best says she began bleeding two days after and later had a miscarriage. In a victim impact statement, Kelli Best said: “As a result of the video which showed the front of my house, my neighbours now know and refer to me as ‘the rapist’s girlfriend’ and my children as ‘the rapist’s children’." May 26, 2017: All four men are found guilty Following a gruelling trial whereby the victim was cross examined four times, all four men were found guilty. Shershah Muslimyar, 20, Rafiullah Hamidy, 24, Tamin Rahmani, 37. and a 17-year-old who we cannot name for legal reasons, were all found guilty of three counts of rape. During the trial, prosecutor Simon Taylor told the court the four men tried to plot and lie their way out of the evidence held against them. But all four of the men's DNA was found at the scene of the rape in Hamidy's room. Senior investigating officer Detective Inspector Richard Vickery said: "The victim in this case was a vulnerable teenage girl who was taken advantage of and subjected to some of the most horrendous crimes imaginable. "It was late at night, she was lost and she asked a group of men for directions. Instead they saw an opportunity to fulfil their depraved sexual desires and betrayed the trust she placed in them in the worst possible way. "Rape is an abhorrent crime and the victim has suffered a great deal of emotional harm from the ordeal she was forced to endure. She has displayed tremendous courage in reliving what happened to her, and I would like to personally thank her for having the strength to help bring her offenders to justice. "They clearly pose a significant danger to women and children and are fully deserving of the lengthy prison sentences they will surely now serve." September 2017: rapists jailed The four men convicted of raping the teenager were jailed for a total of 49 years in prison. The three men were each sentenced to 14 years and the 17-year-old boy was sentenced to seven years - half of which they will serve in custody. October 2017: Britain First cancel their 'Ramsgate rapists' rally Britain First planned to host a rally outside Ramsgate train station, with a flyer of the event stating Fransen and Golding are being "persecuted for exposing the Ramsgate migrant rapists". The group announced plans to hold a gathering outside Ramsgate Station on October 14, with a number of key Britain First figures to appear. But soon after the rally was announced, members of the public petitioned Thanet District Council to ban it and the Mayor of Ramsgate said Britain First were "not welcome". The rally ultimately did not go ahead due to Fransen and Golding being in the Netherlands and unable to return to the UK without being arrested. March 7, 2018 - Britain First leaders are jailed Fransen is found guilty of three charges of religiously aggravated harassment, and cleared of one. She was jailed for nine months. Golding was found guilty of one offence of religiously aggravated harassment, but was cleared of two other charges. He was jailed for four-and-a-half months. Detective Inspector Bill Thornton of Kent Police said: "The crimes committed by Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen were abhorrent and motivated by religious insensitivities. "They claimed to be exposing the men who had been accused of rape when in reality they knew little about the case in question and could have put the trial at risk due to their reckless actions. "It was the bravery of the female who was attacked and the tireless work of Kent Police detectives who ensured the men responsible are now serving a significant period of time behind bars, not because of any misguided attempt by Golding and Fransen to claim credit for their conviction by bringing religion into the equation. "The fact that completely innocent members of the public were accused of being rapists, making them fear for their own safety, shows how little regard they have for the consequences of their actions."

A police spokesman said: "We are investigating a reported assault at HMP Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey, between 4.15pm and 4.30pm on Wednesday, March 14.

"The victim is alleged to have been punched by two other inmates, causing him to suffer minor facial injuries."