Far-right activist flew to the Spanish island again this week in a moment of peril – but friends deny seeing him there
“As far as I am aware, he is on mainland Spain,” said Barry Armstrong, a convicted fraudster and longtime friend and benefactor of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson.
It was difficult to fit with what the staff at Robinson’s favourite breakfast place in Costa Adeje, in southern Tenerife, had said just that morning. “He was in here yesterday,” a member of the waiting staff said of Robinson.
Neither did it quite tally with Armstrong’s own Facebook postings. “Have you seen your mate we aren’t supposed to talk about on Facebook?” a friend asked of Armstrong. The response was a thumbs up emoji from the retired businessman from Newcastle.
But Armstrong, speaking by his Bentley car outside his whitewashed villa, wearing only his underpants, said he had nothing to hide.
