Who is Danny Tommo? Tommy Robinson associate arrested over migrant boat 'slashing'
A close associate of far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been arrested after a small boat was slashed with a blade in the Channel.
Danny Thomas - known on social media as Danny Tommo - was detained on Wednesday evening on suspicion of criminal damage with intent to endanger life.
Detectives had been investigating the incident after Mr Thomas posted a video online appearing to show himself confronting an inflatable dinghy in the Channel.
The founder of far-right group Patriot Platform appeared to have spent Tuesday afternoon on a speedboat in the Channel broadcasting his pursuit of the asylum seekers to more than 100,000 people online.
The arrest comes after a small boat was slashed with a blade in the Channel Daniel Thomas / YouTube Footage posted online by Mr Robinson showed Mr Thomas apparently being detained by police at a petrol station.
Danny Thomas grew up on Hayling Island in Hampshire, and is a father of four.
Prior to his activism, he served as a tank driver with the King’s Royal Hussars, but was reportedly discharged on medical grounds before seeing active service.
He is also understood to have worked as a bricklayer, a sales and marketing manager, and ran a website design firm.
Mr Thomas spent two years in prison in 2016, after breaking into a man’s house armed with knives.
Alongside two others, Mr Thomas wrongly accused the man of stealing £10,000 of drugs from him in what the judge called “an extraordinarily frightening incident.”
The trio ran into the man’s home, shouting “You’re coming with us” as part of the attempted kidnapping.
After being released, Mr Thomas claims to have turned his life around, attending church every week and “praying for forgiveness.”
His bio on X reads: “Trusting in Jesus Christ, Our Saviour”, and several of his social media posts quote verses from the bible as he attempts to show he is a changed man.
However, he clashed with the law once again in 2019 when he was arrested at a demonstration outside Buckingham Palace.
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