Tommy Robinson releases podcast from prison prompting investigation

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/07/investigation-launched-tommy-robinson-podcast-prison/

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  1. ***The Telegraph reports:***

    An investigation has begun into how [Tommy Robinson](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/06/tommy-robinson-interview-jordan-peterson-musk-farage-reform/) was able to record and release a podcast from his prison cell, The Telegraph can reveal.

    A 13-minute recording of the founder of the English Defence League addressing his supporters and praising Elon Musk and Donald Trump has been posted online and shared repeatedly on social media.

    The clip, understood to have been recorded during a personal family call, was broadcast on a podcast website under the title “Tommy Speaks from Prison”. It appeared alongside appeals for donations to help “Tommy’s work”.

    Robinson, 42, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, [was jailed for 18 months](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/28/tommy-robinson-admits-contempt-of-court/) for contempt of court in October after he admitted repeating false and defamatory claims against a Syrian refugee.

    A serving prisoner cannot be interviewed by a journalist for broadcast of any kind without the approval of their prison governor.

    Prison Service guidance states that permission should be granted in only “exceptional circumstances”, usually if the prisoner raises matters of “legitimate public interest affecting prisoners … [or] an alleged miscarriage of justice”. It is understood no such approval was obtained by Robinson.

    **Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/07/investigation-launched-tommy-robinson-podcast-prison/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/07/investigation-launched-tommy-robinson-podcast-prison/)

  2. wdym prompting investigation. It’s been well known for years our prisons are a joke where u can get mobiles drugs and even mcdonalds

  3. People are doing drugs, having sex and making music videos haha

  4. Let’s hope this results in him spending even more time at His majesties pleasure.

    Never forget how many of his mates are now convicted for SA of varying kinds. Yet he doesn’t seem to take issue with that.

  6. You mean Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. Or Tommy many names

  8. Everything he said in the video was common sense and spot on. You guys on reddit just don’t like it because you are far left loonies in your own little echo chamber.

  9. I’d make it so being caught with contraband adds a year to your sentence each time, fuck it let em rot.

  10. Tommy speaks from prison:

    “Good British grub, comfortable bed, getting all the cock I need 10/10”

  11. Grifters gonna grift….guarantee it’s linked to some kind of fundraiser

  12. What’s Starmer refusal about? Looks very suspect to me.

  13. He’s called Steven Waxy Lemon, not Tommy, that’s his fake chav name to fool the dumb he’s one of em.

  14. Shame on you, Telegraph.

    This is just a career criminal.

    No news about the £1.7 million profit he didn’t pay taxes on?

  15. It’s no great mystery. He called his family and they recorded it on their end.

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