TOMMY ROBINSON’S “racist invective” about a Syrian refugee who was filmed being attacked in a school playground led to the teenager and his family being targeted by “far-right activists,” the High Court heard today.

A video showing Jamal Hijazi, then 16, being pushed to the ground and threatened with drowning at Almondbury School in Huddersfield provoked outrage and a flood of public sympathy after it was widely shared online in November 2018.

English Defence League (EDL) founder Mr Robinson, 37, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, later commented about the incident in two Facebook videos, claiming that Mr Hijazi was “not innocent and he violently attacks young English girls in his school.”