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The leader of the the far-right group Britain First has been attacked in prison less than a week after being jailed for abusing Muslims .

Paul Golding , 36, was beaten up in HMP Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent on Wednesday by two inmates who are believed to have left him with a suspected broken nose.

Police are now understood to be investigating the alleged attack.

Golding and Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen, 32, were found guilty on March 5 of religiously aggravated harassment at Folkestone Magistrates Court.

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They were “threatening and abusive” towards family members - including children and a pregnant mother - of two defendants being tried for raping a 16-year old teenage white girl.

District Judge Justin Barron said he had no doubt it was the defendants’ intention to use the trial - which involved Muslim immigrants in a “particularly brutal and emotive rape” - for their own political ends.

He added: ‘This was a campaign to draw attention to the race, religion and immigrant background of the defendants.”

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He sentenced Fransen, who won notoriety last year after President Trump retweeted anti-Muslim videos on her Twitter page, to 36 weeks in prison. Golding was jailed for 18 weeks.

Fransen founded Britain First with Golding as a self-proclaimed “patriotic political party” seven years ago. The party says it “opposes Islamic extremism and mass immigration because they are a danger to the British people”.

The pair have gained nearly half a million followers on Facebook and an estimated 1,000 active supporters but have failed to make a dent in the mainstream politics. Fransen received just 56 votes when she stood in the 2014 by-election in Rochester and Strood.

A Prison Service spokesperson, said: “We do not comment on individual prisoners.”