Tommy Robinson has been arrested (Picture: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire)

Former EDL leader Tommy Robinson has been arrested at his Luton home today.

Police arrested the newly styled ‘journalist’ after he went to Canterbury Crown Court to report on a case about a girl’s alleged rape over a kebab shop.

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He allegedly filmed a report from the court steps, in breach of the UK’s contempt laws which say no filming is allowed on court precincts.

A Bedfordshire Police spokesman said: ‘On the morning of Wednesday 10 May 2017 officers attended an address in Luton, Bedfordshire, and arrested a 34-year-old man for contempt of court.


‘The arrest is in relation to an incident at Canterbury Crown Court on Monday, 8 May 2017.’



His supporters started campaigning that he is innocent.

Caolan Robertson, from website The Rebel which Mr Robinson was reporting for, said: ‘The police claim that Tommy was in “contempt of court” for filming his report outside the courthouse — for “livestreaming” some quick comments from his cell phone while standing on the court house steps.

‘But that’s where journalists report on court cases all the time. Tommy didn’t do anything unusual.

‘He didn’t film anyone other than himself. And when a court official asked him to move, he did.

‘We did our work, and then we left. If Tommy had done anything wrong, why didn’t the police say something, right then and there?’

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