Far-right activist Danny Tommo pleads guilty to criminal damage after slashing dinghy with knife in Channel

Anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas has pleaded guilty to criminal damage after he slashed a migrant boat with a knife in the English Channel.

The 37-year-old, known to his supporters as Danny Tommo, appeared via video link from HMP Winchester for the hearing at Portsmouth Crown Court.

The maximum sentence if convicted of criminal damage valued at more than £5,000 is 10 years’ imprisonment, according to the Sentencing Council.

But if the damage is valued lower than £5,000 the maximum sentence could be a fine and three months’ jail time.

At Thomas’s first appearance at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court, it was heard the cost of the damage to the vessel was unknown to be above or below £5,000 because the boat had been taken back to France.

In September, Judge James Newton-Price KC had declined to grant the defendant bail and remanded him in custody until his trial, which was given a provisional start date of March 1 2027.

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