LONDON (Reuters) -British anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson was cleared on Tuesday of committing an offence under counterterrorism laws by refusing to give police his phone PIN, thanking billionaire Elon Musk who he said funded his defence.

Robinson, 42, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has become a flag-bearer for some British nationalists and one of Britain’s most high-profile anti-migration campaigners.

He was stopped by police in July 2024 as he drove through border security at the Channel Tunnel train terminal in southeast England.

Prosecutors told London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court at a trial last month an officer had become suspicious because of his demeanour, he was driving a high-value vehicle, a friend’s silver Bentley, and was heading to Benidorm in southern Sp

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