THE leader of the far-right English Defence League (EDL) has been jailed for 10 months by a British court for using a friend's passport to travel to the United States.
Stephen Lennon, 30, whose group opposes what it calls the "Islamisation" of Britain, pleaded guilty to possession of a false identity document with improper intention.
Lennon had previously been refused entry to the United States and so used a passport in the name of his friend Andrew McMaster to travel to the country, Southwark Crown Court in London heard.
He used a self check-in kiosk to board a Virgin Atlantic flight from London's Heathrow airport to New York in September 2011.
But when Lennon arrived at New York's John F Kennedy airport US customs officials took his fingerprints and realised that he was not the person on the passport, the court heard.
He was asked to attend a second interview but left the airport, entering the US illegally, before leaving the country the following day using his own passport.
British police arrested Lennon in October.
In a further twist it emerged Lennon's own legitimate passport bears the name Paul Harris.
"You knew perfectly well that you were not welcome in the United States," Judge Alistair McCreath told Lennon as he sentenced him on Monday.
"I am going to sentence you under the name of Stephen Lennon although I suspect that is not actually your true name, in the sense that it is not the name that appears on your passport."
The court heard Lennon was previously jailed for assault in 2005 and has previous convictions for drugs offences and public order offences.
The EDL was formed in 2009 after Muslim hardliners jeered a homecoming parade for British troops who had served in Afghanistan. It has held a series of sometimes violent rallies in Britain.
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