Tommy Robinson as he walks to court. He is smiling, with a slight grimace, and wears a navy blue pinstriped tie, waistcoat and jacket and white shirt. Image source, James Manning/PA
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Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has been giving evidence at Southwark Crown Court

ByDaniel Sandford, UK correspondent, Reporting fromat Southwark Crown Court and Louise Parry
  • Published51 minutes ago

Political activist Tommy Robinson has told a court he hired private detectives to track down and photograph two reporters to "put pressure" on them.

The 43-year-old from Bedfordshire, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was giving evidence at Southwark Crown Court and said he had been "shocked and scared" when the Daily Mail published a story accusing him of "stoking race riots from his sunbed".