Tommy Robinson ordered to pay £100,000 to Syrian schoolboy after libel case loss

Mr Justice Nicklin said: The defendant took on the burden of proving his allegations to be true. He has failed.'

Tommy Robinson - whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. File Picture: Yui Mok/PA

Tommy Robinson has been ordered to pay £100,000 to a Syrian schoolboy who was filmed being attacked at school, after the English Defence League founder lost a libel case.

Robinson – whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – was sued by Jamal Hijazi, 18, who was assaulted in the playground at Almondbury Community School in Huddersfield in October 2018.