Family sue EDL Robinson over refugee rants

ENGLISH Defence League founder Tommy Robinson had legal papers delivered to his home last night from the lawyers of a 16-year-old Syrian refugee he accused of attacking British girls.

Film of the boy, named only as Jamal, showed him headbutted and dragged to the ground by a school bully, before they threatened ‘to drown him’ by pouring a bottle of water over his face.

Hours after the video spread across the internet last October, Robinson claimed Jamal was ‘not innocent’ and terrorised classmates at Almondbury Community School, near Huddersfield.

Tasnime Akunjee, Jamal’s solicitor, said Robinson’s motivation was to stop wellwishers donating to a crowdfunding page. The refugee’s family are suing Robinson for ‘defamatory comments’.

Lawyers took the unusual step of handdelivering the letter to his £1million Bedfordshire home after Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, failed to respond.

Last week Facebook and Twitter stripped Robinson of his official accounts for breaking their rules over ‘hate speech’ but he is still active on YouTube.