Anti-migrant activist Danny Tommo pleads guilty to criminal damage after slashing migrant dinghy
He live streamed the incident in the English Channel on his social media platform
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Anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas has pleaded guilty to criminal damage after slashing a migrant dinghy with a knife in the English Channel.
The 37-year-old, also known as Danny Tommo, changed his plea when he appeared via video link from prison at Portsmouth Crown Court.
A court previously heard how he livestreamed himself in September, taking a knife to the dinghy, which still had a member of a rescue crew on board.
If convicted of criminal damage valued at more than £5,000 , the maximum sentence is 10 years imprisonment, according to the Sentencing Council.
For damage valued lower than £5,000, the maximum sentence could be a fine and three months in jail.
Thomas is due to be sentenced on the 18th November. He's been in custody for seven weeks, and will remain in custody ahead of the hearing.