The charges against activist and independent journalist Tommy Robinson were dropped on Tuesday after a judge at the Westminster Magistrates’ Court found that a police order banning him from a protest in London was unlawful.
Mr Robinson, 40, was arrested in central London on November 26th for supposedly violating a ban from attending a pro-Israel demonstration. Police argued that he refused to comply with the order and therefore used synthetic pepper spray on him, placed Robinson in handcuffs and arrested him.
However, on Monday, it was revealed that Met Police Inspector Steve Parker-Phipps had filled out the wrong date on the dispersal order, writing the date of November 24 on the form rather than November 26th. He claimed the error was made because his laptop
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