A Southwark jury found Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson, guilty of harassing two Daily Mail journalists.

Wednesday's guilty verdicts are the jury's finding on the two counts. Dec. 16 is the sentencing date the BBC and the Daily Mail printed. The Guardian's Monday is a different day for the same finding. Bail, which those first two outlets reported, is not the term.

The BBC reported Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, that a jury at Southwark Crown Court found Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, 43, of Bedfordshire, also known as Tommy Robinson, guilty of two counts of harassment causing fear of violence. The BBC reported he was granted bail ahead of sentencing scheduled for Dec. 16. The Daily Mail, in a story published at 10:39 a.m. EDT and updated at 11:12 a.m. EDT the same day, reported jurors convicted him today at Southwark Crown Court, that he was granted bail, and that he will be sentenced Dec. 16. The Daily Mail reported the jurors deliberated for 11 hours and 25 minutes and that he showed little reaction as the verdicts were returned. The Guardian's story, published Wednesday at 10:39 a.m. EDT and updated at 10:49 a.m. EDT, reported he was found guilty on Monday after a week-long trial. Monday and Wednesday are not the same day. The BBC and the Daily Mail put the verdicts on Wednesday. The Guardian put them on Monday. The Guardian spelled the name Stephen Yaxley Lennon, without the hyphen the BBC used between Yaxley and Lennon.

The BBC reported the case concerned his response to Daily Mail and Mail Online articles from August 2024 that showed him on holiday in Cyprus while riots took place in England following the Southport murders. The BBC reported prosecutor Ben Holt told the court that after three girls were murdered in Southport on July 29, 2024, posts on social media alerted the Daily Mail and Mail Online that he was in Cyprus, and that the paper published articles with photos of him, including one showing him reclining on a sunbed using his mobile telephone. The girls killed in Southport are not named here. The BBC reported he had denied the charges, saying he had panicked and had been scared when the Daily Mail published a story accusing him of stoking race riots from his sunbed, and that he told the jury the article had endangered his family by revealing they were staying in a hotel near Ayia Napa. The Daily Mail reported the August 2024 article carried the headline about stoking race riots from his sunbed. Those are the accounts of what the articles said. They are the setting for the harassment counts, not a separate verdict.

The BBC reported the court heard he used "bully-boy, intimidatory tactics" to frighten reporters Andrew Young and Jacob Dirnhuber, forcing them to employ security or leave home. The Guardian wrote the same phrase as "bullyboy," one word, and reported journalists from the Daily Mail and family members fled their homes. The Guardian reported he had shared pictures of the family of one of the journalists online and said he had "tagged and bagged" all three reporters who worked on an article about the 2024 Southport murders, and that the charges related to only two of the journalists. The Daily Mail reported he sent Dirnhuber a message saying, "I'll be knocking on your door," and that when a photo of Dirnhuber outside his home was posted he wrote, "Got ya." The Daily Mail reported jurors heard he phoned Young and told him, "I'm coming to get you." The Daily Mail reported another journalist, George Odling, said in a witness statement that he and his wife left their home through a neighbor's house because they feared being followed. Odling is not one of the two counts the Guardian said were charged. No child is named here.

The BBC reported he admitted hiring private investigators to photograph the home addresses of Dirnhuber and Young, that he said he had wanted to find the journalists to put pressure on them, and that he told the jury he had not known they were in fear. "That wasn't my intention at all," he said, according to the BBC. "It was an attempt to bring the Daily Mail to the table." The Daily Mail reported he said the same thing about finding the journalists to put pressure on them, denied the investigators were designed to intimidate them, and said, "That was not my intention at all, my intention was to remove the fear and remove the immediate danger to my family." The Daily Mail reported that when Holt put it to him that the reporters were scared of him, he replied, "They are not scared of physical violence from me," and said they were scared of humiliation from him questioning them. The BBC's "bring the Daily Mail to the table" and the Daily Mail's answer about humiliation are two things he told the jury. The BBC also reported that on Aug. 4 he wrote that the Daily Mail had purposely given the location of where he was with his children, "knowing full well that people want to kill me." His children are not named here.

After the verdicts, Frank Ferguson, head of the Crown Prosecution Service's Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said Robinson had weaponised social media and subjected two journalists to a campaign of harassment which caused them serious fear of violence, the BBC reported. The Daily Mail reported a longer statement from Ferguson, including that he targeted the journalists directly and indirectly through social media and by telephone, and that he published images relating to them and to their families. The BBC reported harassment causing fear of violence can carry a maximum of 10 years in prison, or up to 14 years if the offence is racially or religiously aggravated. The Daily Mail reported he faces a possible jail term of up to ten years and did not print the 14-year figure. Ten years and 14 years are the BBC's two maximums. Ten years is the only maximum the Daily Mail printed. The guilty verdicts are the jury's finding on the two counts. Dec. 16 is the sentencing date. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.