Tommy Robinson will learn his fate in court after he refused to hand over his phone’s PIN at the Channel Tunnel in Folkestone last year.
Robinson could be jailed for up to three months and/or receive a £2,500 fine if found guilty.
The former English Defence League leader is charged under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 after telling officers at Folkestone he would not hand over his phone’s PIN because it had ‘journalistic material’ on it.
Under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act, police are allowed to stop anyone passing through a UK port ‘to determine whether they may be involved or concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism’.
The far-right activist, who had £13,000 and 1,900 Euros in cash with him, told them he was driving his silver Bentley to Benidorm for a couple of days, the trial heard.
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Asked to give access to the iPhone, Robinson replied: ‘Not a chance bruv… you look like c*** so you ain’t having it.’
‘It’s my work, I’m a journalist,’ he said, adding that it held information about ‘vulnerable girls’.
‘The process by which journalistic material would be protected was explained to him,’ prosecutor Jo Morris previously told the court.
Earlier this year, Robinson was taken into custody at Luton Airport after landing on a flight from Faro in Portugal.
His arrest came after footage shared on social media appeared to show Robinson pacing up and down a walkway by another person lying motionless on the floor nearby in Euston station.
In the clip, a man can be heard saying: ‘He f***ing come at me. He come at me bruv.’
He then approaches a witness while two members of station staff tend to the victim, adding: ‘He come at me bruv, you saw that.’