Jake Rix

Last week, Tommy Robinson posted this video of a black man playing with his white granddaughters at the park, asking "What is going on here? Where are the parents?!" As a result, he and his wife reportedly have been constantly approached in the street, threatened with their lives and racially abused. After disinformation spread online following Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon)'s post about the man being a paedophile, he lost his job as a musician. The man told The Guardian: “I feel I have to sleep with one eye open,” he said. “I feel unsafe, scared and sad, as mine and my brother’s lives have been threatened. Someone said they will seek revenge and I’ll never walk again, all for just being in the park with the kids I love on a family day out. It’s been twisted by haters and wicked people.” His wife said: “We haven’t gone outside at home, we just can’t,” Natalie said. “Just after it started to go viral, someone in the local pub recognised Olajuwon immediately; we couldn’t believe how quick it had spread. We were walking home from shops just streets from our house, and two lads passed us, spun round and said ‘I hope you’re not them off that video or we’re coming back to slash you up’. It’s just horrendous. “Someone was shouting ‘paedophile’ outside the house the other night, so I rang the police again but they say there’s little they can do. It feels a matter of time before something bad happens. We tried to go out yesterday and had to come home.” 6 days and counting, and Tommy Robinson still refuses to remove the post.