Juno News - October 24, 2018TRUE NORTH IN LONDON： TOMMY ROBINSON UPDATE
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Summary
The judge who actually runs the Old Bailey referred Tommy Robinson's contempt of court case to the attorney general. This is what Tommy Robinson wanted, and more importantly, it's what Tommy himself advocated in a statement he wrote to the judge.
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Andrew Lawton here outside the Old Bailey in central London where I've come for one reason
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and one reason alone and that is to tell the facts that are happening and what happened this
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morning in court is the judge who actually runs the Old Bailey decided that he is going to refer
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Tommy Robinson's contempt of court case to the Attorney General. This is what Tommy Robinson
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wanted and more importantly it's what Tommy Robinson himself advocated in a statement he
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published a statement that the judge said actually swayed his decision. Now this statement was written
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against the advice of Tommy's former lawyers who he's now dismissed and it seems like it actually
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got him the outcome he wanted but there are two stories with Tommy Robinson not only what's happened
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in the justice system but also what's happened in his treatment in the press and I literally had a
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front row seat to that in court sitting in front of a bunch of the mainstream media reporters that
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have been covering the Tommy case and I wanted to read a couple of things that they said to one
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another not realizing that I was actually committed to fairness. Ezra Levant needs to be arrested he's
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whipped up hate. Another one about Tommy before the court case had even started and one reporter said
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this quote he is in contempt of court there's not really any doubt and another moment the two reporters
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were talking amongst each other discussing the numbers in the crowd here you can't see it but
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behind me there were when Tommy was speaking close to 2,000 people the official estimate early in the
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morning from London police was that there were 1,500 what these reporters agreed to write about
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was quote hundreds and in one of those words we quote don't want to give them credit unquote so this is
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why I came all the way to England to get the facts of the case not to be a cheerleader not to be an
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activist but to do what any fair and honest journalist would do for the true north initiative I'm Andrew