‘I was acting in the public interest’

Tommy Robinson will claim he was acting in the public interest when he accused a Syrian refugee of assaulting a schoolgirl, the High Court heard today (Tues). The English Defence League founder, 37, is being sued by Jamal Hijazi after he made two videos in response to reports the schoolboy had been assaulted in the playground. Footage in November 2018 went viral showing Jamal, then 16, being pushed to the ground and threatened with drowning at Almondbury Community School in…