Tommy Robinson and Julian Assange are both in Belmarsh prison

Tommy Robinson has allegedly been swapping sob stories with Julian Assange from their prison cells.

Robinson, 36, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was sent to HMP Belmarsh after being found guilty of contempt of court earlier this month.

Assange is also jailed in the London prison as he fights extradition to the US on espionage charges.

And according to Robinson’s Telegram account – one of the few social media platforms where he’s not banned – the former EDL leader’s cell is directly below Assange’s.


The Telegram feed, which has more than 50,000 followers, is being regularly updated by Robinson’s team in his absence.



In a message to his fans on Friday, Robinson’s team claimed he had been talking with Assange through their cell windows.

Robinson was jailed for nine months for contempt of court (Picture: PA)

They also alleged Robinson had no contact with any other person for his first week and a half in prison.

The post read: ‘Last night another prisoner was moved to the cell above his.

‘That was Julian Assange. They had a long talk out of the window.

‘I would imagine they could swap quite unbelievable stories of state persecution.’

Robinson was found in contempt when he filmed men accused of the sexual exploitation of young girls, in breach of a reporting ban, outside Leeds Crown Court in May 2018.

Julian Assange is currently jailed for 50 weeks in Britain (Picture: PA)

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He has 11 previous convictions for violence, public order offences, fraud and disobedience of court orders.

After he was found in contempt, Robinson released a video of himself begging President Donald Trump to grant him ‘political asylum’ in the US, claiming he would be killed if he was put in prison in Britain.

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

‘I feel like I’m two days away from being sentenced to death in the UK.’

Assange sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge in 2012 (Picture: AP)

Assange famously skipped bail in 2012, seeking asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge instead of turning himself in to police for extradition to Sweden.

He is still wanted in Sweden for questioning over sexual misconduct allegations.

Assange denied the allegations and claimed he sought refuge in the embassy out of fear of being extradited to the US over his work with Wikileaks.

The Wikileaks founder lost his protected asylum status in April and was dramatically arrested by police.

How Tommy Robinson could have helped keep Huddersfield rape gang on UK streets: Robinson could have helped keep the Huddersfield rape gang on the streets by ignoring reporting restrictions designed to ensure the proceedings were fair. He claimed the activities of the gang were being covered up because the offenders were of Asian origin. In reality, reporting of the case was only being postponed for well-established legal reasons. The restriction was put in place because the defendants were being dealt with in separate trials. In such cases, reporting is sometimes postponed until the final case so jurors cannot be prejudiced by reading accounts of previous trials. In this case, a reporting restriction was in place which postponed the publication of any details of the case until the end of three separate trials – which involved a total of 29 people. The same jury were in place for all three trials due to the connection between the men involved. The reporting restriction was in place to ensure no cross contamination. Robinson broadcast the footage in question while the jury was out considering its verdict in the second trial. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Robinson claimed the cases were being covered up because the men were Muslims. Lawyers for two of the defendants in the grooming gang applied unsuccessfully for the jury to be discharged on May 26, relying on the way Robinson had confronted the defendants and the allegedly prejudicial nature of what had been said. The case could have been dismissed if the application was successful. One of the defendants later went on the run after a protest against Robinson’s arrest and imprisonment, held outside Leeds Crown Court on June 1, was advertised in advance. There was a further application to discharge the jury based on the effects of the demonstration, which was rejected by the judge, and the jury returned their verdicts on June 5, finding the defendants guilty on all counts. Robinson was aware of the potential consequences of his actions at Leeds Crown Court – as he had been given a suspended prison sentence for contempt of court in 2017 after trying to film three Asian men and a teenager who were on trial at Canterbury Crown Court accused of gang-raping a teenage girl.