Tommy Robinson has begged Donald Trump for ‘political asylum’ in the US (Picture: EPA)

Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has made a public appeal to Donald Trump begging to be granted ‘asylum’ because he faces jail in the UK.

The EDL founder was found to be in contempt of court last week after he filmed defendants accused of the sexual exploitation of young girls and live-streamed the footage, in breach of a reporting ban, outside Leeds Crown Court in May 2018.

Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, begged the US president to analyse his ‘case’ in the hope he would be granted political asylum in the US.

He shared his plea on the InfoWars channel on Monday, when he said: ‘I feel like I’m two days away from being sentenced to death in the UK.’




He added: ‘I beg Donald Trump, I beg the American government, to look at my case.’

His appeal continued: ‘I need evacuation from this country because dark forces are at work.’

Robinson leaving the Old Bailey last week after being found in contempt of court by High Court judges (Picture: PA)

Robinson went on to claim he would be killed in jail and that British prisons are ‘controlled by jihadi gangs’.

‘This is a direct appeal on behalf of my family – we love the United States, I have no future here [in the UK],’ he said.

In 2013, then as EDL leader, Robinson was jailed for 10 months for entering the US with a fake passport, having pleaded guilty to possession of a false identity document with improper intention.

He had been unable to legally enter the country because of previous drug convictions, Southwark Crown Court heard, and so used a friend’s passport in the name of Andrew McMaster to get to New York.

His begging message comes as High Court judges are today set to reveal their reasons for finding he committed contempt of court.

In 2013, Robinson was jailed for entering the US with a fake passport as he was unable to legally travel there due to a drug conviction (Picture: EPA)

Robinson denied any wrongdoing during his contempt trial, saying he did not believe he was breaching reporting restrictions and only referred to information that was already in the public domain.

Dame Victoria Sharp and Mr Justice Warby, who reached their decision after a two-day hearing at the Old Bailey, found Yaxley-Lennon in contempt in three respects – by breaching the reporting restriction imposed on the trial, by live-streaming the video from outside the public entrance to the court and by ‘aggressively confronting and filming’ some of the defendants.

Dame Victoria said the content of the video ‘gave rise to a substantial risk that the course of justice in that case would be seriously impeded’ and the confrontation of the defendants was a direct interference with the course of justice.

She added: ‘In our judgment, the respondent’s conduct in each of those respects amounted to a serious interference with the administration of justice.’

Robinson is expected to be sentenced on Thursday. Contempt of court carries a maximum sentence of two years.

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