Tommy Robinson is on another expensive Mediterranean holiday, this time in Northern Cyprus, in a villa in Kyrenia.
It’s the sixth luxury holiday Robinson – real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – has enjoyed in 12 months, after earlier stays in Aya Napa, the Bahamas, Tenerife, the Costa Blanca and Portugal.
And these are just the ones we know about.
From Kyrenia – which enjoys the reputation of being the tourist capital of Northern Cyprus – he’s been conducting a swivel-eyed war of words with Liverpool boxer Tony Bellew, who made the mistake of offering the opinion in an interview that there are good and bad people to be found in all communities.
A benign suggestion to most people but too much for Robinson.
Fuelled with anger – and who knows what else – he has denounced Bellew as “a bitch”, “a wanker” and “a sausage” who has “bent over” for the Saudis (his last fight, for which he picked up a sizeable fee, was in Riyadh).
This has been going on for two days and on Thursday, at 9.00 pm, Robinson couldn’t resist sharing his dessert with us – coupled with an aside to Bellew – as he tucked into dinner in the Chinese House restaurant in Kyrenia, confirming he was in Northern Cyprus.
But guess who’s with him this time.
A post which Robinson himself reproduced from their ‘family group chat’ suggests that Jenna Vowles is also there, keeping him company.
Which is curious, because they divorced in 2021, just before he declared himself bankrupt and lost an expensive libel action, the damages and costs of which have still not been paid.
He later claimed to have gambled away over £100,000 of money raised from his supporters and spent thousands more on “drink, alcohol, partying”.
In his earlier book Enemy of the State Robinson boasted that he owned seven properties, but six of them were in his wife’s name. He later insisted this was untrue and the book had been written by a ghost writer.
More recently, Vowles was banned from being a company director for seven years after her company, Hope & Pride Ltd, was liquidated with £1.1 million unaccounted for.
The Insolvency Service found that the company, registered in Luton, had not filed any accounts to explain the movement of this large sum of money.
HMRC also estimated that the company owed over £300,000 in unpaid corporation tax.
Robinson is able to spend so much time in Europe because, despite supporting Brexit, he has acquired an Irish passport which gives him EU citizenship.
