Tommy Robinson has taken to X, formerly Twitter, to take back his apology after his social media account falsely accused a Glasgow man of filming kids in a park.
Quroum Beg, a dad-of-three from Glasgow, was abused by protesters who filmed him in a playpark in the Gorbals. This footage was shared by Robinson's social media account, which also called him "another invader".
Beg later spoke to The National, revealing that he had actually been challenging the crowd before being advised to move by police and rather than lead protesters to his door, he took a seat in the nearby playpark to let the chaos die down.
Since then, Robinson's account has posted an apology. However, Robinson himself has now returned to X to confirm he hasn't apologised to him as he is "not sorry at all."
In the post, Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, says: "There's loads of headlines flying around that I've apologised to some Pakistani Muslim in Glasgow who was accused of being a nonce for sitting in the park with no kids.
"I haven't apologised to him because I didn't even share the story, one of my admins did.
"Apparently earlier in the day he was there with his kids but he was still sat in the park without his kids. Pretty weird.
"I am not sorry at all, because I didn't say sh*t."
Beg told The National that he had woke up to a flurry of messages after the clip went viral. He said he spent hours having to explain to family and friends what had actually happened, and that thankfully they all stood by him.
“They shared it and made it [look] as if I was in the park, that locals came to the park to remove me, and the police all of a sudden turned up and removed me from the park, all within ten seconds,” he explained.
“This was all planned, the whole narrative was made, and that's what's now forced me to now fight against that.
“And then somebody like Tommy Robinson, who's got two million followers, has shared it, and I think it's been seen by over hundreds of thousands of people on his account alone.”
Beg said he didn’t know how to deal with the situation at first, and felt overwhelmed, but decided that he had to get his side of the story out there.
“For me to deal with somebody that's so well funded, somebody that's got such a big following, and knowing it will get amplified,” Beg said of Robinson, “I just didn't know what to do”.
