Right-wing activist Danny Tommo was arrested last night after allegedly filming himself cutting into the side of a dinghy while a rescue worker was still aboard.

The 37-year-old, whose real name is Daniel Thomas, was detained at a BP petrol station on suspicion of destroying ships or fixed platforms, or endangering their safety.

He was also arrested on suspicion of criminal damage, criminal damage with intent to endanger life, and conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals.

Footage shared by Tommo on YouTube and by his associate Tommy Robinson on X appeared to show the activist asking to “say goodbye to my kids” as officers approached.

An officer is then heard telling Tommo to “step out of the car” and explaining that he was under arrest. A woman off-camera can be heard saying: “The cameras are on, let go of the phone.”

The arrest followed an incident in which Tommo allegedly shouted “traitors” before using a knife to cut into a vessel that people smugglers had used to transport migrants across the Channel.

Video posted to YouTube appeared to show Tommo slashing and stabbing the dinghy after a crew member boarded it on Tuesday, reportedly to return the vessel to France.

Later that day, hundreds of activists gathered in Gosport after Tommo filmed himself heading out to sea in an attempt to intercept a dinghy carrying dozens of migrants.

Police arrested Tommo last night. At around 10.30pm, he and Robinson each posted a 55-second video of the detention. The footage has since been viewed approximately 350,000 times.

The clip opens with Tommo, who is off camera, saying: “Yeah okay, okay, if I could just speak to my kids quick, I’ll try and say goodbye to my kids before.”

An officer replies: “Step out of the car please sir, okay? At this moment in time we have information to suggest that you were involved in criminal damage.”

Tommo responds: “Yep, yep, can I just… give me my phone. I want my phone to be on, please.” An unidentified woman then says: “The cameras are on, let go of the phone.”

The officer continues: “At this point in time, you are under arrest – you do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence…” Tommo replies: “I understand.”

The officer adds: “The information that I’ve been given is that you’ve been involved in criminal damage that has recklessly endangered someone’s life, okay?”

Tommo interrupts: “Can I just… yeah, I understand that…” The officer then says: “I will get the full information for you in terms of times and date and everything…”

A spokesperson for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said: “A man has been arrested after a boat, which had an emergency responder on board, was damaged in the English Channel. We received a report of the incident on Tuesday evening.

“Last night, a 37-year-old man, of no fixed abode, was arrested on suspicion of destroying ships or fixed platforms or endangering their safety under Section 11 of the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990; criminal damage; criminal damage with intent to endanger life; and conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals under Section 58 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995. He remains in custody at this time.”

If charged and convicted, the alleged offences carry a range of maximum penalties, including life imprisonment for destroying ships or fixed platforms or endangering their safety.

In an update on X this morning, Robinson said: ‘Danny Tommo is currently sitting in the cells and facing serious charges. He needs our help, he needs your help. Danny rang me when the police were following him, saying ‘what do I do, what am I going to do?’

‘I know, because I’ve been in this situation, he’ll be scared, he’ll be worried, he’s going to be fearful, he’s going to be panicking about his kids and his missus, the mother of his kids.

‘He’s going to be panicking about his family. He’s going to be panicking about the time he’s away, because Danny is their sole provider. So there’s lots of things going on here.’

Robinson said he told Tommo on the phone that he needed help from Canadian political activist Ezra Levant, who has previously supported his own legal battles.

The activist, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, added that he phoned Levant last night, who confirmed that he will help fund legal representation for Tommo.

Robinson also said: ‘Danny didn’t stab that boat for himself. It’s for every one of us. And he might have done it impulsively, it might have been a mistake what he’s done, but he’s been driven to that.

‘All these men are being driven to it by failures of government, by the mess they’ve created in our country.’

Separately, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said last night that three people were charged after they gathered at the marina where they thought the boat’s passengers were due to arrive.

Six people were arrested by officers during the evening, the force said.

Shannon Dodds, 32, of Gosport, has been charged with two counts of assault by beating of an emergency worker. She has been remanded in custody to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court today.

Sally Pearson, 31, also of Gosport, has been charged with assault by beating of an emergency worker and a racially aggravated public order offence. She has also been remanded in custody to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court today.

Toby Matthews, 33, from Gosport, has been charged with common assault of an emergency worker. He was bailed to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court on November 9.

A 19-year-old man and a 36-year-old man from Salisbury, who were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass, have been bailed with conditions until December 22 while inquiries continue.

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A 67-year-old man from Gosport was handed a Fixed Penalty Notice for driving without due care and attention.

He was also arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker and has been bailed with conditions until December 22 while inquiries continue, the force added.

Some of the protesters in Gosport wore black clothing and face coverings, and chanted ‘send them back’, wrongly assuming the boat would be guided to the Hampshire coast.

In fact, it docked in Dover, Kent, at around 12.30am yesterday after 51 migrants on board reportedly refused help from a French ship and spent 33 hours at sea.

In a video published on X yesterday morning, Tommo branded the latest migrant arrivals a ‘sad day for the country’ but argued that pressure from protesters ‘worked in some respects’ because it stopped arrivals coming into Gosport.

The migrant dinghy left the Normandy coast on Monday and was shadowed by a French coastguard vessel, with authorities declaring the occupants had refused help as they were ‘determined to take all risks to reach the United Kingdom’.

British rescue boats were sent to collect the passengers on Tuesday, and the UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency said they would be transferred to Border Security Command.

A Government spokesman said: ‘The Border Security Command works around the clock to protect our border and will continue to detain, check and process every small boat arrival.’

It had been expected that the migrants would be taken to Gosport, with local MP Dame Caroline Dinenage saying the Home Office had told her it was ‘increasingly likely that a small boat will need to be disembarked in the local area in the coming hours’.

But the vessel carrying the migrants headed east, later arriving in Dover where migrants were seen disembarking wearing orange life jackets and carrying personal belongings.

Around a dozen protesters were spotted in the area, with local police having blocked off a nearby road.

Routes used by small-boat people smugglers appear to be changing, and UK authorities are understood to have plans to deal with small-boat arrivals further west along the coast than Kent.

Earlier this month, a dinghy was met by lifeboats from the Isle of Wight having set off from the Cherbourg area, triggering protests in Portsmouth. It is thought to have made one of the longest journeys of any small boat in the Channel.

Similarly, departures from as far west in France as Normandy are rare.

Two other migrant boats have also managed to land undetected in the UK on Monday and Tuesday this week, the first time in a year that there have been unescorted landings and the only time since the start of 2023.

The thousands of migrants crossing the Channel are usually brought to shore by Border Security Command or RNLI boats.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, who has ordered an urgent review by the Border Security Command, said the failure to intercept the two boats was ‘not acceptable’. 

A Home Office spokesman said 21 people who landed on Tuesday had been detained.

Education Secretary Lucy Powell said today that not every migrant boat can be intercepted.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Ms Powell branded the situation ‘not acceptable’ but insisted there was an ‘improving picture’.

Asked if the boats reaching the UK was embarrassing, the Cabinet minister responded: ‘[You] can’t stop everything all of the time.

‘Of course, it’s a concern. That’s why the Home Secretary has demanded and ordered this urgent review because this is not what we want to see. This is not acceptable.

‘But the overall picture is an improving picture. It is hard, difficult work that requires constant, constant effort by our border forces, our security services, police, our partnerships with France and other countries.

‘This is a mammoth and huge task, which is now starting to reap some dividends. But of course, you know where there are still issues arising, we must absolutely tackle them.’

In a later interview on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Ms Powell claimed her earlier comments to the BBC had been taken ‘out of context’.

Asked why she had said you ‘can’t stop everything all the time,’ she responded: ‘Clearly, we haven’t on this occasion, but they are on the way down – significantly reduced – and obviously it’s our intention, it’s our aim, to stop these crossings, and that requires a huge range of actions which we are taking from stopping things at source, from acquiring boats, from taking steps that we’re taking with the French authorities to stop people making the crossings on the first place.’

Asked if she stood by her earlier comments, she added: ‘I think you’re just taking that completely out of context.

‘We are clamping down on small boat crossings every single day… we are sucking the oxygen out of it, we are taking steps, and there are many, many steps. It’s not an easy thing to do to just turn on a switch, turn off a switch overnight. We have to constantly evolve.’

French police are also investigating whether the death of a man found on a beach in northern France yesterday is linked to a Channel crossing.

Some 17,480 migrants have arrived after crossing the Channel by boat so far this year, including 5,011 since Andy Burnham became Prime Minister.

The total so far for 2026 is down 46 per cent on the same point last year.

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said: ‘Labour have admitted they will never stop the boats. Keir Starmer’s pledge to ‘smash the gangs’ was always a farce, and open-borders Burnham has learnt absolutely nothing from his predecessor.

‘The only way to stop the crossings is to deport all illegal immigrants on arrival, and only the Conservatives have a plan to do that.’

A weekend trip took a horrifying turn for a New York woman who says United Airlines staff made her sit beside a man who was masturbating while staring at her.

The woman was traveling on a 6 a.m. flight from Rochester to Newark when she noticed her “unassuming” seatmate touching himself inappropriately.

The woman, who is not being identified because she is the alleged victim of a sexual offense, told NBC News that the man watched her while pleasuring himself.

After she alerted the United staff, flight attendants reportedly told her she could stand for the remainder of the one-hour flight.

The pediatric crisis therapist was flying to Boston on September 3 for a weekend visit with friends, according to the outlet.

The situation became even more distressing when staff later instructed her to return to her seat for landing.

She told NBC News that she was forced to sit beside the man until the aircraft landed, while no action was taken against him.

Although she had reported the alleged sexual harassment, staff escorted her back to her assigned seat, saying there were “no other available seats.”

She was told she would need to sit there for only three to five minutes, but said the landing process lasted considerably longer.

Because she was seated toward the back of the aircraft, she also had to remain near the man for much of the deplaning process.

“On multiple instances, I said I feel uncomfortable doing that,” the woman told NBC News.

When she later approached an agent at the terminal gate, she said the employee responded rudely.

After she expressed concern that the man could be boarding another flight, the agent allegedly replied, “What am I supposed to do about it?”

She said she received little assistance afterward. Another agent told her to submit a complaint to the airline.

United Airlines said in a statement that its employees “take these matters seriously and are looking into what happened.”

“We have been in contact with the customer and apologized for her experience.”

“This incident was reported to flight attendants on a September 3 flight operated by United Express partner Republic Airways. The customer stayed in the aircraft galley until returning to her seat for the landing. United Airlines staff members learned about it as customers were deplaning.”

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The Rochester resident described the alleged offender as a man who appeared to be between 35 and 40 years old.

He was wearing hiking pants and a T-shirt. He was ‘pretty normal-looking,’ the therapist told NBC News.

She added that she believes that the man is accustomed to doing such horrendous acts.

‘People don’t just do those things at 6am,’ she said.

The woman said that she got even more frustrated when she saw the man leave without any repercussions.

‘If someone were to vape in a bathroom, they’d be escorted off the plane,’ she said.

The woman filed complaints with United Airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration. She also called the FBI.

United Airlines gave her an option to interact with the company only via email, the outlet reported.

Their response was: ‘I can imagine how upsetting and uncomfortable it must have been to experience behavior from another passenger that caused you concern, particularly while seated in a location where you felt concerned.’

The woman responded by saying that the reply contains ‘a lot of blaming language,’ which she found ‘very offensive.’

She further wrote in her reply: ‘I DID remove myself and ask for help. Additionally, framing public masturbation as ‘behavior that caused me concern’ implies that what occurred could somehow be perceived as acceptable.’

The therapist added that she was not seeking a refund but the flight credit she got from the airline as compensation was ‘insulting.’

United offered compensation of $100 to the woman when she complained. Her flight cost her $400. 

The woman’s boyfriend was not on the trip with her but was constantly texting her.

‘I was just hoping that she was safe and that the proper authorities were going to handle the situation,’ he said.

The woman will continue flying with United because she still has loyalty miles and an airline credit card, she said. 

During Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. objective in dealing with Iran could lead to one of three possible outcomes: infighting within the regime, an uprising by the Iranian people or a negotiated agreement.

“We had six weeks of kinetic activity, followed by the blockade, and now we’re carrying out an effort unlike anything seen before to restrict and cut off their financial oxygen,” Bessent said. He added that he could not predict whether the pressure would last “a week, a month, or two months,” but said Iran’s leaders would eventually “yell uncle.”

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Bessent said the first possibility was that members of the Iranian regime could turn against one another, calling that outcome “not impossible.” The second was an uprising by the Iranian people, though he said that would be difficult because the regime had “probably killed 50,000 of their own population.” The third option, he said, was reaching an agreement that Iran would honor. Bessent noted that President Donald Trump said at the beginning of August that he did not believe Iran was ready for a deal. The administration attempted to pursue a memorandum of understanding on June 3, but Bessent said Iran began firing on ships in the strait and acting aggressively several weeks later. “This time, if there is a deal, I guarantee you, they’re going to stick with it,” he said.

A 12-year-old girl died by suicide after finding the move to a new school difficult and becoming “almost nocturnal” while spending late nights on her phone, an inquest heard.

Angel Karanja had been described as a “model student” at primary school, but struggled after joining Cornerstone Academy in Hamworthy, Poole.

She missed many lessons and told a friend shortly before her death on March 17 that she would “rather be in hell than at school”.

As Angel became increasingly withdrawn, she spent growing amounts of time playing Minecraft and watching YouTube videos on her phone.

Her father, Eliud Matindi, told the inquest in Bournemouth that his daughter’s phone use had left her living an “almost nocturnal” routine.

Angel was found in her bedroom at the family home in Poole, Dorset, at about 7.30am. Police later discovered that she had received Snapchat messages as late as 5am that morning.

Investigators examining her Samsung phone and tablet found no evidence of cyberbullying or searches connected with suicide.

The inquest heard that Angel had left no note and had not told friends what she intended to do. She had started at the 600-pupil secondary school the previous year, and her difficulties there were reflected in her declining grades.

Mr Matindi told the inquest: “Angel was the light of all our lives and brightened every day.

“We have so many wonderful memories of her.

“She was a model student at primary school. She never got into trouble and was polite to everyone.

“But I would describe her move to the new school as difficult.

“It was much larger and she was very reluctant to go. She missed many classes, and her academic performance suffered.

“As she grew older, I noticed that she became more withdrawn and spent increasingly more time on her phone watching YouTube and playing games.

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“I would describe her as almost nocturnal. She slept through the day.

“When she was in her room, she spent all her time playing Minecraft.”

On the morning Angel died, her father said he called upstairs shortly after 7.30am to tell her it was time to get ready for school.

After receiving no answer despite calling three times, he went upstairs and found Angel dead in her bedroom.

He called 999 and paramedics arrived but declared her dead at the scene.

Mr Matindi said: ‘I shouted up to her it was time to get up three times.

‘But there was no response so I walked up the stairs and I found her hanging.

‘She will forever be missed by us all.’

He said he thought his daughter had ‘turned a corner’ as her attendance had improved and she had made a group of friends in Year 8.

School friends of Angel were interviewed by police and one claimed she had been bullied by a group of girls at a sleepover.

Another told officers: ‘She said she would rather be in hell than at school.’

Dorset coroner Brendan Allen recorded a narrative conclusion that she died as a consequence of ligature suspension.

He added: ‘Her intention is not explained by the evidence.’

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