Tommy Robinson employed “bullyboy, intimidatory tactics” against two Mail journalists, prosecutors told a court on Monday.

The activist, whose legal name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, allegedly sent photographers to the journalists’ homes and shared images of the properties with his millions of social media followers.

Andrew Young and Jacob Dirnhuber were left fearing for their personal safety, the court heard.

Robinson—referred to in court as Lennon—denies two charges of harassment causing fear of violence.

The English Defence League founder greeted supporters outside Southwark Crown Court as he arrived for the five-day trial.

Opening the prosecution case, Ben Holt said the 43-year-old had targeted the journalists after viewing their coverage of his holiday as “an unnecessary intrusion”.

Addressing the jury, the prosecutor said: “What he did, we say, was to intimidate those journalists.

“He chose to frighten them and arranged for individuals to go to their addresses.

“He circulated images of their homes on social media to millions of followers.

“His supporters became involved and threatened the journalists.

“Understandably, you might agree, they were scared and, in some cases, were forced to leave their homes.”

The nine women and three men on the jury were told that the allegations relate to events in the summer of 2024, amid widespread unrest across England after three young girls were stabbed to death at a dance event in Southport.

Mr Holt said Lennon had posted messages on X from his holiday in Cyprus during some of the anti-immigration demonstrations.

Mr Dirnhuber then sent reporter Andrew Young and a photographer to Cyprus, where they photographed Lennon lying on a sunbed while using his mobile phone.

The court heard that Mr Dirnhuber knew the prime minister had referred in a speech to people “who were whipping up trouble and running away”.

Jurors were shown the Daily Mail’s front page from August 5, which featured a photograph of Lennon beneath the headline: “Stoking race riots from his sunbed.”

Mr Holt said jurors might agree or disagree with the Daily Mail’s editorial decision and could hold their own views about the newspaper.

However, he stressed that the trial was not about the newspaper’s editorial stance. Instead, it concerned Lennon’s response to the journalists, whom he believed had intruded on his holiday.

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The prosecutor said Lennon could have complained to the independent press regulator IPSO but did not. Rather, he allegedly sent photographers to the journalists’ home addresses.

‘This is what this trial is actually about,’ said Mr Holt. ‘The prosecution say this defendant, using bully-boy, intimidatory tactics, threatened the journalists.

‘He put pictures, albeit redacted, of them out on his timeline on X for the enjoyment and appreciation of his followers.

‘And, as a result, the journalists feared for their own personal safety and also for their own family, either being forced to leave home or employ security personnel to watch their home address.’

Lennon allegedly sent Mr Dirnhuber a message saying ‘I’ll be knocking on your door’.

When one of the activist’s followers posted a photo of Mr Dirnhuber outside his home address, the far-Right leader reposted it with the words ‘Got ya’, adding: ‘I got all three of you tagged & bagged in 1 day’.

He allegedly phoned Mr Young and was ‘swearing and shouting’, saying he had researched Mr Young’s family. ‘Mr Lennon became, in Mr Young’s words, increasingly menacing,’ said the prosecutor. Mr Young believes he told him: ‘I’m coming to get you’, and he repeatedly asked Mr Young ‘if he thought it was fair that he had “doxxed” his children by exposing his holiday location’.

He also left a voicemail on the Editor of the Daily Mail’s mobile phone saying: ‘I’ve already located every f***ing one of you.’

Lennon, wearing a blue checked waistcoat and white shirt, listened as the prosecution outlined the case against him.

Jurors were told he had answered ‘no comment’ to all questions when police first interviewed him, on December 9, 2024. When detectives interviewed him a second time, two days later, he provided a prepared statement.

It said the Mail article had identified the hotel where he had been staying in Cyprus with his family and he was ‘suddenly overrun with news crews taking photos and filming my children’. He said his children had been ‘scared and upset’.

There were no identifiable pictures of Lennon’s children published by the Daily Mail in print or online, jurors were told.

Mr Holt said: ‘His case is that his family had been put in danger by the actions of the Daily Mail. A phrase we will hear a few times in this case is, “What is good for the goose is good for the gander”.

‘He acted as he did to protect his family – as such, he says, his conduct was reasonable.’

The trial judge, Mr Justice Cavanagh, told the jury the defendant was a ‘prominent activist and commentator’ adding: ‘If you have any opinions about the defendant, you must put those complaints to one side.

‘This is not a trial about, or an assessment of, the defendant’s political views.’

The prosecutor said: ‘You will all probably have heard of him and about him. You might have your own views about him and what he stands for; both for and against. You must put those feelings aside during the course of this case.’

The trial continues.

Liberal frontbencher and former SAS soldier Andrew Hastie has defended fellow veteran Jacqui Lambie after One Nation used her medical condition as the subject of a joke in its “Please Explain” animated video series.

In the latest episode, an animated version of Lambie says she “can’t laugh because of my prolapsed vagina”.

Lambie disclosed in August that she had been diagnosed with vaginal and bladder prolapse and would require surgery, followed by five months away from Parliament. She revealed the condition during an emotional speech opposing a proposed cap on healthcare support for returned service personnel.

The independent senator said the condition was linked to a back injury she suffered while serving in the Australian Army.

Speaking to the ABC’s Afternoon Briefing, Hastie condemned the cartoon as “MAGA-style politics”, describing the treatment of Lambie as “cheap, vulgar and nasty”.

Hastie said he was not opposed to humour, but argued that ridiculing a fellow parliamentarian—or anyone else—for a serious medical condition was neither clever nor funny.

He also accused One Nation leader Pauline Hanson of hypocrisy, noting that she had reacted angrily when billionaire mining executive and political donor Gina Rinehart was recently targeted by a crude joke on an ABC program that suggested she should be attacked.

Labor frontbencher Tim Ayres and independent MP Monique Ryan, a doctor, also joined Lambie in criticising the One Nation video on Monday.

Minister for Women Katy Gallagher said mocking women’s health issues was not satire but “bullying”.

Hanson defended the cartoon and told Lambie to “lighten up”.

“Get over it, okay? It is actually satirical,” Hanson told reporters in Lambie’s home state of Tasmania.

“Have a good look at it, have a bit of a laugh, Jacqui, and lighten up.”

Hanson has faced further criticism over the One Nation “Please Explain” series, including an earlier cartoon that labelled Liberal frontbencher and former Special Air Services soldier Andrew Hastie a “traitor”. That episode prompted widespread concern.

Lambie, who is facing pressure from the anti-immigration party in Tasmania, previously hit back at Hanson by calling her a “lying coward” and describing the cartoon series as “full of bloody violence”.

A video of Hanson’s press conference shared on her social media accounts was posted with the caption “take a chill pill”.

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Hanson also argued that the video may have helped raise awareness of the condition affecting Lambie and approximately one in 12 women.

“There are people out there hurting and, quite frankly, they don’t need the nastiness,” Lambie said.

‘If you want to get on social media and watch Pauline Hanson’s cartoons, then be my guest. If you want more hatred and more spitefulness in your life, then please do so.’

The cartoon, published to Hanson’s social media accounts on Saturday, depicts Lambie as backing the government’s proposed digital duty of care, intended to strengthen online protections for children and give users greater control over the content they encounter.

The video portrays the proposed changes as a crackdown on free speech, with Lambie’s character declaring that One Nation’s animated series has ‘gotta go’.

‘Oh, I hear it’s funny sometimes,’ a caricature of Senator Penny Wong says.

‘No, it’s not, plus I can’t laugh because of my prolapsed vagina,’ Lambie replies.

‘Oh, don’t tell me they’ve made fun of that, have they?’ a caricature of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says. 

‘No, that’d be very distasteful,’ Lambie’s character replies. 

Asked whether she had contacted Hanson or One Nation to request that the cartoon be removed, Lambie said she had not, but suggested those close to the party leader should intervene.

‘I would’ve thought that if those people, and especially those men in there, had any front whatsoever, what they’d do is ask her to remove it effective immediately,’ she said.

‘She’s dragging all those other men around her into it too.’

‘If you think it’s a laughable matter about women having problems with their reproductive system, then be my guest and stand by her,’ she said.

‘But seriously, enough is enough.’

A Minnesota university and one of its students are facing backlash after a video showing the student making a prejudiced remark spread rapidly across social media.

The footage was recorded Wednesday outside a Turning Point USA event featuring Riley Gaines, a conservative activist and former collegiate swimmer who opposes transgender women competing in women’s sports.

The event was held on the University of Minnesota campus and drew students from several colleges. Protesters also gathered outside to criticize people attending the event.

One protester recorded a University of Saint Thomas student entering the event as another protester spoke through a megaphone nearby.

The student appeared to direct a slur at the man with the megaphone, shouting, ‘Go back to your own country, b***!’ Two male students accompanying her appeared to smile and laugh.

The man responded, ‘I know, you hate people!’ according to the video.

Later, the student noticed she was being filmed and asked the person behind the camera, ‘Why are you recording me?’ The man with the megaphone was then heard saying, ‘Look at these fat, white trash weirdos who hate America.’

The video, which was posted on Thursday by a male model named Darnell Edwards, has gone viral, receiving 10 million views in four days and thousands of angry comments. 

Reposts of the video accumulated millions of additional views and drew thousands of comments across social media.

Edwards identified the woman as a University of Saint Thomas student and named her, although the Daily Mail could not independently confirm her identity. Her social media profiles also appeared to have been removed.

The University of Saint Thomas confirmed that the student attends the school but did not identify her, citing ‘student privacy laws.’

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The university described the footage as ‘an off-campus incident involving one of our students’ and said, ‘The language heard in the video is inconsistent with the university’s values and convictions.’

The statement continued: ‘As a Catholic university, we have a responsibility to provide a welcoming environment for all and do not condone hateful language being used by anyone in our university community.’

The school said it would address the matter ‘in accordance with the student code of conduct’ and would ‘continue providing support and working to build a university community that respects the dignity of each person.’

The statement appears to have followed backlash from members of the campus community. In a follow-up video, Edwards urged students to contact the university about the student’s conduct.

He also said alumni had contacted him to claim they planned to stop donating to the university because of the video.

The anger was also evident in the comments responding to the widely shared video.

‘The comfort she felt in yelling racist statements, while in clearly likeminded company EVAPORATED, instantaneously when she realized she’s on camera,’ one user began.

‘Not in any way that she feels remorse. But entirely in that she feels regret that she might now how [sic] the possibility of consequences for her hateful actions,’ the comment concluded.

‘Can see the fear set in as she takes an extended breath and looks down at her phone, just beginning to process what has just happened and is still happening lol,’ another comment said. 

‘I was just on the phone with the dean… they acknowledged that it goes against their guidelines and are handling it,’ a third commenter added. 

The University of Saint Thomas referred the Daily Mail to its public statement when reached for comment. 

If you or someone you know is a student at the university and has more information about the reaction to the video on campus, please reach out to eliot.force@dailymail.com with any tips.

Two men were filmed allegedly stealing a family’s pet rabbit after recording themselves lifting the animal by its ears and carrying him away.

The unidentified men had reportedly been hanging around outside a house on St Pauls Street in Hull, East Yorkshire, before grabbing the rabbit, Peter.

In the footage, one man wearing a dark winter coat bends down and lifts Peter by his ears. A second man, dressed in a leather jacket and black hat, appears to film the incident while laughing.

Nine-year-old Peter can be seen struggling as he is held off the ground for more than 20 seconds. The pair then walk away with him, still laughing.

The incident took place at about 5.18pm on Saturday, October 17. Peter’s owner, Amy Grace, later shared the CCTV footage online after discovering the rabbit had vanished while she was out shopping with her son.

Ms Grace, 38, had left her 15-year-old daughter, Faith, at home. When she returned, she noticed Peter was missing and checked the security cameras, revealing that he had been taken from the front garden.

After watching the footage, Ms Grace, who has cared for Peter for eight years, said she could do nothing but “scream and cry”.

“I can’t believe how cruel people can be to something so innocent,” the mother told HullLive.

Ms Grace said she and her children searched for hours without success and eventually feared that Peter had died.

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A Humberside Police spokesperson said: “We received reports of a rabbit being stolen from a garden on St Pauls Street, Hull, at around 8.30pm on Saturday, 17 October.

“Enquiries remain ongoing. Anyone with information that could assist officers is asked to call 101, quoting log 441 of 17 October.”

Peter usually lives in the family’s back garden, but building work there meant he had been allowed to roam in the front garden, where he was taken. He suffers from gut stasis and requires medication three times each day.

In a Facebook post written after Peter disappeared, Ms Grace said her children had been left “devastated” by what happened.

Sharing the video, she wrote: “I want to know who the f*** these are that took my baby! Now!

“He is nine years old and a bunny. He relies on medication and is extremely poorly at the moment with gut stasis. He needs finding ASAP if he is still alive.”

‘Is has always been free roaming, the pallet is in front of the gate to prevent people opening it! I hate living here now and want out of Hull! My children are devastated.’

Thankfully, Ms Grace confirmed in an update posted on Sunday that her pet had been found and since returned home.

She wrote that Peter had been ‘dumped in a car park’.

She said: ‘Peter was found dumped in a car park last night and a lovely kind stranger has messaged me with a video and I now have him home. 

‘He will be going to the vets to make sure everything is ok with him.’ 

Humberside Police has been contacted for a comment. 

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