Far-Right activist Tommy Robinson is being pursued by creditors for an estimated £2million after he was ordered to compensate a Syrian schoolboy he wrongly accused of attacking a girl.
The English Defence League founder declared bankruptcy during a High Court libel case brought against him by Jamal Hijazi.
Campaigners now claim that Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, is ‘hiding millions’ to avoid paying the teenager.
It emerged last night that creditors including HMRC, a former business partner and Barrow-In-Furness Borough Council, have asked an independent insolvency expert to investigate whether Robinson’s claim is genuine or whether he is ‘hiding’ assets to avoid paying his debts.
Campaign group Hope Not Hate allege that Robinson has access to assets worth up to about £3million through property acquisitions, investments, donations and book sales.
Robinson was sued by Jamal after he made false allegations against the Syrian schoolboy on Facebook in November 2018.
After a video showing the teenager being attacked at school went viral, the far-Right activist wrongly claimed that Jamal was ‘not innocent and he violently attacks young English girls in his school’.
Tommy Robinson (pictured) is being pursued by creditors for an estimated £2million after he was ordered to compensate a Syrian schoolboy he wrongly accused of attacking a girl
The English Defence League founder declared bankruptcy during a High Court libel case brought against him by Jamal Hijazi (pictured)
He also wrongly claimed that Jamal had ‘beat a girl black and blue’ and ‘threatened to stab’ another boy at his school.
Jamal denied the claims and told the High Court that the slurs had had a ‘devastating effect’ on the lives of him and his family, who had come to the UK as refugees from Homs in Syria.
The judge, Mr Justice Nicklin, said the consequences of Robinson’s falsehoods had been
