By NICK LOWLES

“That Syrian cunt is not going to get a penny,” Lennon posted in his Team Tommy WhatsApp group a couple of days before the start of the libel trial which was brought by a Syrian schoolboy Jamal Hijazi in April 2021. In fact, a full 13 months before the case went to trial, Lennon had already made it clear that he had no intention of paying.

“All of their legal fees that are stacking up on their side, I’m not going to crowdfund or ask people to pay their legal fees,” he ranted in one video. “They’re not getting paid ok. I don’t own an asset. I’m asset (sic) … I’m a straw man. I don’t know what these lawyers, they’re sitting there and they’re all arguing about who’s paying whose costs. I’m not paying your costs yeah. I’m fighting my case. You hit me with £346,000 costs or £100,000 compensation to Jamal it ain’t getting paid, not by me it’s not. And I’m certainly not going to crowdfund any of my supporters to pay your legal fees. It’s not gonna happen.”

And, true to his word, when Lennon lost the libel case, he failed to pay the damages and costs that had been awarded to the claimant.  As the case was about to go to court, in March 2021, Lennon declared himself bankrupt, claiming to have debts of just over £800,000, comprising £340,000 in legal fees, £176,000 he owed to HMRC and £323,000 owed to a former business associate. In July 2022, at the conclusion of the libel case, Lennon was ordered to pay Jamal Hijazi £100,000 plus estimated legal costs. He was served with an injunction which prohibited him from repeating the defamatory statements he had made about Hijazi.

In his bankruptcy interview he claimed that he had been out of work since at least the summer of 2020, held no assets and had no savings. quite simply, he claimed that he had nothing and so could pay nothing. With little other information to go on at the time, and no properties or assets listed in his name, the validity of his bankruptcy was accepted.

Of course Lennon had deceived the court about his assets. He wanted to get one up on the system (a brave culture warrior to his followers), and was unable to bear the humiliation of paying Jamal Hijazi (a Syrian refugee) compensation for the damage he had inflicted on him.  His refusal to cooperate with the court and his continued defamatory statements in defiance of the injunction led to contempt of court proceedings and, eventually, to a prison sentence.

HOPE not hate can now reveal the truth about Lennon’s wealth and business empire and the convoluted measures he took to hide his assets from the authorities. Legal experts have told HOPE not hate that Lennon is likely to have broken several laws, from fraudulent misrepresentation to tax evasion, bankruptcy fraud to perjury. Each one carries the punishment of severe fines and/or imprisonment. The information we have gathered will now form the basis of a dossier that we are handing to the Attorney General and HMRC to support the many calls for a formal investigation into Lennon’s financial affairs. His victims and dupes deserve no less, as does the public.

From a young age Stephen Lennon was keen to make money. According to his autobiography, Enemy of the State, he boasted about co-owning a Porsche at the age of sixteen and by his early twenties he owned several houses. While he never explained how he could afford such assets at such a young age, others who knew him suspected the source of his wealth. “It was well known, if you wanted drugs you would go to one of Yax’s boys,” one old classmate of Lennon told HOPE not hate. “He made his initial money through drugs,” recalls a former EDL member Rob Haynes, who passed information to HOPE not hate from inside the EDL and associated groups for ten years.

By the time Lennon founded the English Defence League in 2009 he was already a successful businessman. By his own admission he had a property portfolio of seven properties and had been a director of multiple businesses, although he was not linked to them online. In a pattern that was to become all-too-common in the administration of his political work, other people ran companies for Lennon, while he had a secret financial interest or even full control. He co-ran a plumbing business but his step-father was the only person named on the company documents and he ran two tanning salons, both in the name of his wife, Jenna Lennon.

Jenna acted as Lennon’s banker, receiving numerous payments that were the direct result of his work. Once such occasion was when Lennon conducted a sting on a prospective Conservative parliamentary candidate shortly before the General Election, it was to Jenna that Associated Newspapers transferred £45,000 in payment.

It was the sale of the majority of Lennon’s properties that provided the money for the pair to buy a plot of land in Silsoe, Bedfordshire, in 2014, on which they built a spacious five-bedroom home. Only Jenna Lennon’s name was on the title deeds. It was later sold in August 2020 for £800,000. Lennon would later claim that his wife was the sole owner, conveniently “forgetting” that it was the sale of his properties that had provided the deposit and the proceeds of his political work that helped pay her mortgage.

Monetising hate

For a man with such a nose for business, he failed to make much of a profit from his time with the EDL. He sold some t-shirts and hoodies, but this did not begin to compensate for the stress of running a national network of hooligans, thugs and racists. While Lennon and London EDL claimed that their activities were aimed at Islamist extremists rather than Muslims and immigrants more generally, the same was not true of the northern EDL divisions. As time went by the northern units, now operating under the name of The Infidels, grew in numbers and political clout, to the point that they began to challenge Lennon for control. Eventually, in September 2013, and facing prison for mortgage fraud, Lennon walked away from the group.

It was in 2017 that Lennon began to use hatred as a money spinner, first by becoming a reporter with Ezra Levant’s Rebel Media, earning a reported £7,000 a month, and then, a year later, going it alone. Having seen how much money could be made from angry, confrontational videos, he resented sharing the proceeds with anyone.  In May 2017 Lennon Consultancy Ltd was formed, with Jenna Lennon as the sole director and owner. It was in the spring of 2018, after he left Rebel Media and went solo, that the money really began to flow. With him went his Rebel film crew of Caolan Robertson and George Llewelyn-John.

According to financial records (photographed by Llewelyn-John), an astonishing £425,000 was donated via online appeals to Lennon’s Donorbox account in just 10 weeks between March and May 2018. A far bigger amount was donated from June to October, following Lennon’s arrest and imprisonment for filming outside a court in Leeds. Money simply poured in. “[Lennon] made millions,” Kev Carroll boasted to Bobs. And all of it was going into Lennon Consultancy.

Lennon would later claim in an interview that Lennon Consultancy received £325,000 in donations in the two weeks that followed his arrest in Leeds in May 2018.

Jenna might have been the sole director and owner of Lennon Consultancy Ltd, with her husband as an employee or consultant, but Stephen Lennon effectively ran the business. In legal terms, Lennon would be described as a “shadow director” – someone who is calling the shots in a company but has no formal status as an owner.

Quizzed in the High Court over his bankruptcy in June 2022, Lennon categorically denied sharing a joint account with Jenna Lennon or even having access to any accounts in her name.  However, this is contradicted by evidence provided by Robertson and Llewelyn-John, who both assert that Stephen Lennon carried Jenna Lennon’s personal business credit card and used it to pay for hotel rooms, meals, petrol and other costs.  On one occasion Lennon sent a photo of the card to Robertson, so that he could use it to book a hotel room.

Lennon hired staff, decided on strategy, and created, produced and broadcast content as he saw fit, without consulting Jenna. According to Robertson, in an interview published in The Independent in March 2021, Lennon withdrew £33,000 from the Donorbox account in April and May 2018 alone: “It went to coke habits, prostitutes, and his supporters thought it was going to kids and security and all that stuff.”

Musical Chairs

In the autumn of 2018, Lennon received a £70,000 dividend from Lennon Consultancy – not bad given that, allegedly, he had no financial interest or involvement in the company.

More damning still, HOPE not hate has seen a legal contract which Lennon signed on behalf of Lennon Consultancy. This document alone proves that Lennon committed perjury in court when he denied having any involvement in the company and is irrefutable evidence of his role as a shadow director. Several people who worked for Lennon Consultancy during this time have confirmed to HOPE not hate that Lennon ran the company, made all the strategic decisions and spent money without consultation with Jenna.

In November 2018 Jenna Lennon moved a resolution to wind up the company, a rather surprising measure given that they had received well over one million pounds in donations during the previous seven months. Lennon Consultancy had served its purpose and it was time to start anew.

On 5 November 2018, the Lennons registered Bubba Media Limited as a new company, with both listed as directors. However, only four months later, an application was made to strike it from the register. In March 2019 a new vehicle for Lennon’s political work was launched.This time Jenna Lennon registered Hope & Pride Ltd, citing herself as the sole director. Hope & Pride Ltd was in effect no different from Lennon Consultancy – a seemingly bona fide recipient of donations from Lennon’s unsuspecting supporters. These donations were made between 9 March 2019 and late 2020 (via Donorbox). This period covered the Brexit demo Lennon co-organised on 29 March 2019 and the founding of TR News, Lennon’s new media operation, which he launched shortly after Hope & Pride had been formed. By now, Lennon was encouraging supporters to make regular monthly donations to Hope & Pride Ltd.

When questioned in court in June 2022 about his connection with Hope & Pride, he claimed that he received only £2,500 a month in wages. However, one person with knowledge of the funding, suggested that Jenna’s company was bringing in £100,000 a month during 2020. There is no evidence that HOPE & Pride Ltd supported anyone else’s work; the profits were purely domestic.

Jenna Lennon is currently facing court action on three counts of failure to adhere to company accounting rules when she ran Hope & Pride Ltd. Last month she pleaded “not guilty” at Southwark Crown Court and the case will go to trial in July 2028. According to documents released to the court, the company took in over £2m in donations while it existed.

By June 2020 Lennon’s problems were coming to a head. His lawyers in the Jamal Hijazi case advised him to settle, suggesting that he offer the schoolboy £50,000 plus costs to avoid a costly trial, but Lennon refused.  This, combined with the backlash following his outburst at Black Lives Matter which had angered many of his oldest friends from Luton, impelled Jenna to urge him to leave politics behind so that they could bring their kids up with a degree of normality. He was having none of it and was determined to fight.

In February 2001, three months before the start of the libel trial, the Lennons divorced; and a few weeks later he filed for bankruptcy. It was a consensual divorce, with Lennon signing away all rights to properties and other assets. There is credible evidence, from multiple sources, that the divorce was a sham, the aim being to put his, and the family’s, assets beyond the reach of the bankruptcy investigators in the event that he lost the libel case.

At the time of the divorce, Jenna and the children were renting a five-bed new-build in central Bedfordshire.  They had moved there in June 2019, shortly after activists had delivered a legal letter on behalf of Jamal Hijazi to their family house in Silsoe. Despite being divorced, people in the neighbourhood would regularly see Lennon coming and going from the house. In fact, he lived there almost continuously from November 2019 until August 2021, except for trips abroad and when he spent three to four weeks staying at a house in Cheshire while compiling evidence for the libel trial.

In the weeks immediately after he declared himself bankrupt, neighbours would regularly see Lennon leaving the house at 5am, with a cap pulled down over his face, and returning after dark in the evening. After the libel trial finished, Lennon was much more open about the fact that he was living there and often had friends over for late night drinks and barbecues.

From August 2021, Lennon began to spend an increasing amount of time in Spain, claiming in a psychiatric report that he needed a more relaxed and stress-free environment.  When he was in the UK the family house was his primary home. It was common knowledge among their respective friends, family and even neighbours that the divorce was bogus and a manoeuvre to avoid paying damages to Jamal Hijazi. HOPE not hate spoke to several people, some connected to Stephen Lennon through his politics and others who knew Jenna Lennon via family connections and the school gate, all of whom said that they had heard that the divorce was a mere ploy. One person suggested that the pair planned to remarry once the bankruptcy issues had been resolved. Lennon always denied the divorce was a sham.

For a self-declared bankrupt, Lennon was living a very affluent life. In his bankruptcy declaration he claimed that his last paid employment had been in November 2019 (when TR News folded) and that he had been unable to pay his debts from September 2020.  In spite of this supposed penury, he travelled abroad regularly, wore new designer clothes and spent £20,000 on a four-week stay in a drug rehab clinic in June 2021 – one of three stays in drug rehab he was to take.

The reduction in Lennon’s political activity, which by the autumn of 2020 was barely a trickle, seemed to have little impact on Jenna’s finances. In August of that year she sold her Silsoe home, bought with the proceeds from the sale of Lennon’s houses, for £810,000.  A few months later, after the couple had begun divorce proceedings, she bought another house in mid-Bedfordshire for £705,000. Over the next two years, she was to spend in excess of £200,000 renovating the property.

A few weeks before this purchase, Jenna Lennon bought another property in mid-Bedfordshire, this time for £695,000. Land records show that this house, and a considerable amount of land surrounding it, was bought by the Family Circle Trust, a trust fund co-run by Jenna along with Stephen Lennon’s mother.

While details of the Trust are not publicly available, it is almost certain that the bulk of the money that went into it came from Jenna Lennon and her various businesses. Stephen Lennon’s parents did not seem to have any independent wealth.  Indeed, HOPE not hate has learnt from people close to the family that the Lennons had been paying for the mortgage of their Bedfordshire home for several years.

Despite the separation and then divorce, it is clear that life carried on the same as before. Lennon took an active involvement in the redevelopment of Jenna’s new house, visiting the site far more regularly than his now ex-wife, and the couple went on at least four holidays together in the eighteen months after their split, including one trip to Mexico in April 2022 and another to Spain, in July 2022. They were even caught together on TV attending a boxing night at East London’s York Hall.

When questioned in court about their divorce, Lennon claimed that he had effectively relinquished any right to a share of the family fortune so that his children could have the best future possible.  Of course the real reason was to conceal his wealth and deny Jamal Hijazi the damages he would be due if he won the libel case.

A month after the trial, but before the judge’s ruling, Lennon was already orchestrating his next media move. “I am looking at setting up a group with networking, research, audio/visual (video making), and social media,” he posted on Telegram on 21 May.

“Alternative media is the future, we have to bypass dishonest, sanitised, globalist media.”

“By the people for the people,” he added, rather disingenuously.

A few weeks later, on 2 August, Jenna Lennon registered a new company called Square FT Ltd. According to its website it provided “solutions for independent and freelance journalists”.

As was now the well-established norm, Jenna was the only director of the new company and, despite claiming to be a resource for journalists, Stephen Lennon appears to have been the only “journalist” to have been helped by Square FT Ltd.  If one was tempted to believe Lennon’s claim that his political work had had an adverse impact on Jenna and the family, this could be seen as a most bizarre move.

On 13 October, on the day that Lennon was heading to Westminster Magistrates Court to hear the verdict in the stalking case Lizzie Dearden, then a reporter for the Independent, an email was sent to his supporters asking for money to help pay his legal costs. The appeal was hosted on the Square FT website; the donation page for this appeal appears to have been the same as that used by anyone making donations to support the wider so-called journalistic work of the company.

A few weeks later, in early December, Lennon announced his first Rape of Britain film, which sought to identify and confront Muslim groomers of white girls in Telford.  Its release was to coincide with a demonstration in the town. Over the next few weeks there was a flurry of email appeals for funds via his remaining social media outlets, GETTR and Telegram. He repeatedly asked for financial assistance to support his investigation, supposedly to help relocate survivors and their families, and to pay for the cost of security and surveillance. Each of these appeals led people to a donation page on the Square FT website.

As before, the proceeds from his various appeals between October 2021 and January 2022 seem to have been paid into the same Square FT bank account mentioned above. The name on the account was simply “Donate TR”.

Shortly before Christmas 2021, Stephen Lennon told his supporters that he had been offered a job with a new independent media company, Urban Scoop, which he claimed would provide a monthly salary and support him in his work. This move seems to have been a hasty response to The Independent’s interest in allegations that had come to light – that it was Jenna who actually ran Square FT. Lennon declined to comment, but he lost no time in removing a link to Square FT from the header of his GETTR account.  A day later, he replaced it with a link to the donation page hosted on the Urban Scoop website. Come what may, he was determined to avoid any interruption to his lucrative income stream.

On 28^th January 2022, the day before the screening of the first Rape of Britain film in Telford, Lennon announced to his supporters that he had now begun working for Urban Scoop. “As you may already know I am now working with a fantastic group of fearless journalists at urbanscoop.news,” he wrote in an email that went out to supporters. “That is where you will find my content and documentary work from now on. I had to give up TR News because due to (sic) lawfare. The judicial system, the left and paedophile protectors may cause me disruption, but, they cant (sic) stop what is inevitable, and that is personal accounts, recollections, corroborations and FACTS!!!”

However, this email, and those that were sent out in the following months, went out with the imprint of TR News which Lennon had claimed, under oath, to have been disbanded a few years before. So it had either been resurrected or it was a convenient name to have on correspondence while he sorted out his new business venture. Given that TR News was the trading name of Hope and Pride Ltd, one must presume that Urban Scoop was, initially at least, run by no less than Jenna Lennon.

In further evidence of duplicity, Urban Scoop eventually became the trading name of Freestyle Freelance Ltd, another seemingly separate company run by Lennon but formally owned by Tamworth-based Adam Geary.  Better known as “Nem”, Geary had been with Lennon since the early EDL days.  Today he runs Lennon’s political operation and has masterminded his increasing engagement with a US audience.

While Urban Scoop and Square FT are, on paper, two totally separate companies, they appear to be intertwined. Donations to each went into accounts called “Donate TR”, both have shared the same email list, and the coding for each website appears to be identical.  Both have also used the same Bedfordshire foodbank as their apparent business address, yet the foodbank (a legitimate concern) had no links to either company or to Lennon. When HOPE not hate alerted the foodbank, it sent a legal letter to both companies, demanding that they stop using the address.  One letter was returned as “not known” at the address, yet both companies simultaneously dropped the foodbank address.

It is clear that Stephen Lennon has been operating as a shadow director and, for the past nine years, has effectively run the various companies which are fronted by Jenna Lennon and Adam Geary. Given that he was declared bankrupt during this period, and therefore disallowed from having control of any company, his de facto involvement in these companies was manifestly illegal.

As had been the case with every one of Lennon’s companies, Freelance Freestyle Ltd was eventually struck off after failing to file accounts.  In anticipation of this eventuality, Adam Geary had already incorporated yet another company to replace it. Thinking Independent Media Ltd was incorporated on 4 August 2023, three months before the process of winding up Freelance Freestyle Ltd had begun.

Even though the company ceased to exist on 5 December 2023, with a voluntary liquidator appointed nine days later, Lennon’s supporters received begging emails from Freestyle Freelance for yet another two months. Then, in mid-February 2024, supporters began to receive Urban Scoop emails from Thinking Independent Media Ltd.  Its listed address was the Bramingham Business and Conference Centre, an address that the Lennons had used for all of their companies for the previous ten years. According to Companies House, Thinking Independent Media Ltd has never operated from this address.

Thinking Independent Media Ltd operated for a little under three years, before it too was struck off after failing to file accounts. By now Geary – in effect Lennon – had created yet another new company in 2024, Circulo Indepedente LDA, which currently operates out of a lawyer’s office in Almancil, Portugal. The following year, in August 2025, Lennon himself set up his own company, Hunger4Truth, operating out of the same lawyer’s office.

Anyone would be excused for failing to unravel this Gordian Knot of deception.  That was, and remains, precisely the Lennons’ intention.

Interestingly, and potentially legally-damaging for Lennon, he lists his home address as the Bedfordshire home owned by his parents. For a man who claims to be beyond British legal jurisdiction by declaring, falsely, that he lives abroad, the paperwork for his new company is a fatal mistake.

Chickens coming home to roost 

Stephen Lennon has been uniquely successful at monetising far-right activism in the UK. Over the years, he has received millions of pounds in small donations from deluded supporters across the world, and hundreds of thousands more from wealthy backers in the US, Canada and Israel. These funds merely complemented an already impressive business and property portfolio. He has achieved this by establishing a series of companies, fronted by his now ex-wife Jenna and more recently by his chief-of-staff, Adam Geary, all of which have failed to file accounts or, it appears, pay tax. He has used this wealth to create an impressive property portfolio, buy expensive jewellery and enjoy numerous luxury holidays around the globe.

Because he lied under oath about the true ownership of his companies he is also guilty of contempt of court.

If proof was needed that the various companies over the last eight years were in effect a single operation, it is to be found in his emails. In the spring of 2019, as Lennon created TR News and was preparing to stand in the European Elections, a HOPE not hate researcher signed up to his email list. Over the next seven years this email account received emails from TR News, Hope and Pride Ltd, Freestyle Freelance, Thinking Independent Media and now Circulo Indepedente – without any request to transfer ownership of the data. Further emails directed the recipient to the fundraising page of Square FT Ltd, Jenna’s most recent company.  Late last month, after some technical problems were making it hard for people to donate, Lennon and Geary resurrected Thinking Independent Media, eight months after the company had ceased to exist, but using a new address, one which had not been legally listed.  As before, their prime concern was to maintain the income stream from their various donors.

Lennon’s luck appears to be finally running out. Jenna Lennon now risks jail and possibly losing the family home because she purportedly colluded by agreeing to be the front for Hope and Pride Ltd. Stephen Lennon is furious about this and claims it is just another chapter in his persecution by the establishment. Of course, this is nonsense. She risks losing the £1.7m family home and even faces prison because they decided to put his businesses in her name.

Hope and Pride Ltd is just one of seven companies through which Lennon has run his political money-making grift over the last nine years, to say nothing of his financial interest in the clothing outlet Casual Basement and numerous crypto accounts.

HOPE not hate is now calling on the authorities to investigate Stephen Lennon himself, the companies he has secretly controlled, the non-political businesses he has set up and the lies he has told in court in order to prevent Jamal Hijazi from receiving the financial and legal justice he deserves.

In one final twist to this tale, Stephen Lennon now faces another legal headache after Glasgow-based father of three, Quroum Beg initiated libel action when he was wrongly accused of filming children in a local park. Beg faced a barrage of abuse from the far-right when Lennon targeted him in a post on his X account.  When he was alerted to the legal action, Lennon initially apologised, but then withdrew the apology, claiming that one of his social media team had been responsible and so he had nothing to apologise for.

Lennon wrote on X: “I give zero fucks, he will get as much money as Jamal & his lawyers got”.

He might be feeling bullish now, but the situation has changed from when the Jamal legal case was decided.  We now have proof that Lennon is sitting on assets worth millions and – just as importantly – we can prove it. Lennon might try to dismiss Beg’s legal action. It is now time that Lennon is held fully accountable for his many crimes.

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