Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was jailed for contempt of court after live streaming outside a criminal trial at Leeds Crown Court.

Followers of the ex- EDL leader have demanded him to be released, and held various protests.

Now, a firefighter has gone on to his social media account "Jono Booth" and claims to have been suspended after having support for Robinson on Facebook.

The open account account messaged publicly in support of jailed Robinson.

After several messages, the account claimed the firefighter was leaving Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service after getting suspended over his behaviour on Facebook.

The post read: “Well after 22 years in the fire service as a firefighter for Nottinghamshire, yesterday I had a phone call from the fire service saying that I’ve been suspended from duty with immediate effect and I had to hand in my on call alerter and photo I

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“On asking for what reason this was happening I was told I was going to be investigated on some of the content I had recently put on Facebook.”