Ex-EDL chief Tommy Robinson threatened - The Times (subscription)

The former leader of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson, said he had received death threats since leaving the movement last week.

He resigned from the group last Tuesday, saying he was "fed up with far right extremists trying to hijack what I do".

He said: "Scotland Yard have had meetings with me because my life is under threat for resigning.

"The people who the death threats are coming from are the people who I was opposing anyway — they were the elements that were always on the outside of the English Defence League, they were around it always wanting to