{"id":638400,"date":"2026-06-14T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638400\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:10:09","slug":"tommy-robinson-says-he-was-stopped-at-heathrow-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638400\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Robinson says he was stopped at Heathrow by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Far-right activist Tommy Robinson says he was stopped at Heathrow Airport under counter terrorism laws and had his phones seized on Saturday evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said a man in his 40s was stopped after returning to the UK from Russia via Turkey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man was stopped at around 17:00 GMT under the Counter Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019, they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The statement said: &#8220;The man was interviewed by officers and his communication devices were seized. He was subsequently released.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robinson, 43, posted a video on X earlier in the week showing him meeting Elon Musk&#8217;s father in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In November, Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd9ken44n0eo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was found not guilty of a terror offence<\/a> after refusing to give police access to his phone in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had been stopped by officers at the Channel Tunnel in Folkestone while driving a friend&#8217;s silver Bentley to Spain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robinson refused to give officers the Pin to his phone during the stop, saying that the device contained confidential journalistic material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Far-right activist Tommy Robinson says he was stopped at Heathrow Airport under counter terrorism laws and had his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-638400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}