Tommy Robinson arrested again, and an injunction against him, by the solicitor who endangered Tommy.

Truely we live in interesting times.

For some as yet unknown reason a Luton solicitor, name of Ian Donald McLoone (and is he a loon? A certifiable bent as a nine bob note loon indeed) obtained Tommy Robinson’s most recent address and released it on twitter. As you can imagine, considering the violence and threats Tommy has suffered these last 10 years the safety of his family is paramount, hence the move to a new address. It’s being made public was a cause for concern. 

Mr ID McLoone considers any trouble caused to Tommy and his family is their ‘just deserts’ for the amount of money and resources he has caused Bedfordshire Police. Mr McLoone is a partner in the law firm Taylor Walton LLP of Luton, St Albans and Harpenden . I can’t tell you much more about them; their website is ‘under maintenance’. What a surprise. I have been told that they received so many telephone calls on the subject today that they had to suspend their switchboard for the time being.

Tommy decided to attend upon Mr McLoone seeking an apology and an explaination of how he found the address, and who else he has shared it with. McLoone’s (I can’t be doing with the courtesy of his title anymore – lets go boarding school/army and revert to mere surname) reaction was to get his firm to issue an injunction against Tommy (the INJURED party) and to press criminal charges which resulted in Tommy’s arrest yesterday. He has been bailed. 

Meanwhile one of McLoones colleagues was allocated the unenviable task of telelphoning Tommy to inform him of the injunction proceedings. The conversation was preserved on video.

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People have been making formal complaints to the Law Society which is the professional organisation responsible for the training, discipline and conduct etc of solicitors in England and Wales. Come Monday there may well be a sackful of written complaints to deal with by the Solicitor’s Regulation Authority who deal with complaints. . 

McLoone is clearly in breach of the probity and decorum I was taught (being old school) should be the behaviour of a solicitor; they may no longer be ‘Solicitors of the Supreme Court’ but a certain standard of gentlemanly conduct is still expected. McLoone has fallen badly short.