Juno News - July 06, 2019


EXCLUSIVE： Tommy Robinson discusses contempt verdict with Andrew Lawton


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3 minutes

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739

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66

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Tommy Robinson has been found guilty of three counts of contempt of court by the Old Bailey in London. The three counts were brought forward by the Attorney General on behalf of the Home Office and the Crown Prosecution team.

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00:00:00.000 Outside the Old Bailey in London, just under one hour ago, Tommy Robinson was
00:00:13.880 found guilty of the three counts of contempt of court that were put before
00:00:17.640 him by the Attorney General. With Tommy now, Tommy you said, not 30 minutes
00:00:22.360 before the judges issued their decision, that you knew it was going to go down
00:00:25.320 this way. Why was that? Well they couldn't allow me to go knock
00:00:28.320 guilty. If they allow me to get not guilty, it basically tells the world that
00:00:32.640 they kidnapped a journalist for three months, put him on solitary confinement
00:00:35.700 when he broke no law. You've sat in court. This is printed off of the judiciary's
00:00:40.860 website, their website. It clearly states courts have no power under section
00:00:46.440 4-2 to prevent publication of material that's already in the public domain. It
00:00:50.940 was agreed in court that everything I said was in the public domain. What
00:00:54.300 they've said, what the government have said, is that that's wrong. Well it's on 0.99
00:00:58.820 your website. It's on the government's judiciary website under the Court of Law's
00:01:04.740 rules. So they've gone against the law. They found me in contempt because they've
00:01:10.320 said that me asking someone walking into court how they feel about their
00:01:14.040 sentence is contempt. And me taking a photo of someone. Now you watched the video
00:01:19.140 that was played in court. Yeah. Of a BBC journalist doing an identical thing to me.
00:01:23.320 And there's nothing wrong with her doing it. It's because of me. So I've been
00:01:27.600 tried and convicted of who I am. I believe this is an attempt to not just
00:01:31.140 silence me but silence the movement. I generally think they'll put me in jail and
00:01:35.760 I generally think I'll be killed in prison. And I think that's what this is
00:01:38.260 about. One of the cases made by the lawyer for the Attorney General was that if we
00:01:42.520 let you get away with what you did, everyone will be able to get away with it in
00:01:45.880 the future. Do you think that will work the other way? If we let the government
00:01:49.200 get away with doing what they did to you, they could do it to the BBC next week, to
00:01:53.160 Press Association the week after. And the media doesn't seem to understand that.
00:01:57.200 They can do it. No, no. The media are celebrating this. The media are celebrating
00:01:59.940 this. The media, they don't act as journalists. They act as activists. They act as
00:02:04.440 political activists now. And I'd say like this is more about I think stopping any
00:02:09.780 normal citizen journalist. The rise of independent journalism. They don't want it. And this
00:02:13.840 is to scare the hell out of people. You can't even ask someone, how are you feeling about
00:02:16.980 your verdicts? Or you're being contemptuous. It sets the precedent. I'm going to appeal
00:02:20.640 it more so I'm gutted because my kids break up from school next week for six weeks. And
00:02:25.800 I got put in jail last year this time when my kids were on six week holidays. So I'm gutted.
00:02:30.800 The lawyer for the Attorney General in there kept saying as though it was an indictment of
00:02:35.520 you that you spoke of the people's media. The government is terrified of that concept.
00:02:40.740 Why is that? Because they know the people are listening to us.
00:02:43.840 They know the trust in media is gone. They spoke about rebuilding the trust in the judiciary
00:02:47.640 system. Do you think this is going to rebuild the trust? People, what they should realise
00:02:53.380 is that millions of people, any one of you can go watch the video of me outside Leeds Crown
00:02:57.560 Court, yeah? They've said I was aggressive. I was not aggressive. The video's there. The
00:03:02.180 evidence is there. They've said that I encourage my supporters to harass the men. That's a lie.
00:03:06.440 It's not there. It's just a lie. It's an outright lie. And I expected the leaders,
00:03:10.800 the lead judges of the old Bailey and the Queen's bench to be principled on law and judge
00:03:18.780 on law, not judge on who I am. And it's okay for one person to do it, but not the other.
00:03:24.960 It's just proved we know we have a corrupt media. Everyone knows that. We've just proved
00:03:28.660 we've got a corrupt judiciary system as well. 0.96
00:03:30.920 Tommy Robinson, thanks for your time. Get with your family. I know that's your plan.
00:03:33.560 So I appreciate it.
00:03:34.220 Cheers, man.