22 Facts About Jayda Fransen

Jayda Kaleigh Fransen is a British far-right politician and activist who was convicted of religiously aggravated harassment in 2018.

Jayda Fransen then joined the far-right fascist political organisation Britain First.

Jayda Fransen became acting leader for six months from December 2016 to June 2017, while Golding was imprisoned in December 2016.

Jayda Fransen has been an unsuccessful candidate in several elections since 2014.

Paul Golding became the leader following the resignation of Dowson, and during this time Jayda Fransen was the deputy leader of the party.

Jayda Fransen stepped down from her leadership role in January 2019 and left the party.

Jayda Fransen has been described as part of the counter-jihad movement.

Jayda Fransen stood as Britain First's first parliamentary candidate for the Rochester and Strood by-election on 20 November 2014, during which she expressed sympathy for the UK Independence Party and its candidate Mark Reckless, who went on to win the seat.

Robinson said he did not know who Jayda Fransen was and denied supporting her policies.

In January 2021, Jayda Fransen said she would stand for the Glasgow Southside seat, held by Nicola Sturgeon, in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election.

Jayda Fransen received the fewest votes among the 357 constituency candidates in the election.

Jayda Fransen had denied all charges, accusing the courts of being "absurd", and engaging in "a really clear display of Islamic appeasement".

In September 2017, Jayda Fransen was arrested with Golding and charged with religious harassment.

On 14 October 2017, following a broadcast on Radio Aryan, Jayda Fransen was re-arrested and detained overnight at a protest in Sunderland for breaking the terms of her bail.

On 17 October 2017, after Jayda Fransen and Golding pleaded not guilty before Medway magistrates, their case was adjourned until a hearing at Folkestone Magistrates' Court on 29 January 2018 and they were both ordered to report weekly at Bromley Police Station.

On 18 November 2017, Jayda Fransen was arrested in London by detectives from the Police Service of Northern Ireland in relation to a speech she had made at a rally outside Belfast City Hall on 6 August.

Jayda Fransen was charged with employing "threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour" under the Public Order Order 1987 and on 14 December appeared at Belfast Magistrates' Court, where she pleaded not guilty.

Jayda Fransen was immediately re-arrested outside the court and charged the following day over anti-Islamic comments posted online in a video filmed on 13 December at a peace wall separating Catholic and Protestant communities in West Belfast; she was ordered to appear in court on 9 January 2018 and released on bail, subject to an exclusion order from all processions and demonstrations in Northern Ireland.

On 29 March 2019, Jayda Fransen was convicted of stirring up hatred at the Belfast rally and for separate comments at a peace wall.

On 7 March 2018, Jayda Fransen and Golding were found guilty of religiously aggravated harassment at Folkestone magistrates' court, as a result of an investigation concerning the distribution of leaflets in 2017 in the Thanet and Canterbury areas.

Kent Police released mugshots of Jayda Fransen and Golding, taken when they were originally in custody, because of "the nature of the offences committed and the impact they had on the wider community".

On 18 December 2017, Twitter permanently suspended the accounts of Jayda Fransen and Golding, together with the official account of Britain First, as part of its general policy towards any groups which glorify violence or use hate-inciting imagery to fulfill their goals.