Three family members are jailed after they started ‘fast, frightening’ brawl at one-year-old baby’s inquest

• Inquest looking into the death of one-year-old Jimmy Robinson turned violent
• Father Tommy Robinson, 23, been found guilty of affray following the hearing 
• James Robinson, 51, and aunt Abbey Pert, 30, were also guilty of same charge  

A courtroom descended into chaos after the relatives of a one-year-old who had died started brawling at an inquest looking into the infants’ death.  

The toddler’s father Tommy Robinson, 23, grandfather James Robinson, 51, and aunt Abbey Pert, 30, were all found guilty of affray after a hearing at the Archbishop’s Palace in Maidstone in November 2018 turned violent.    

The family had been attending the inquest into the death of Jimmy Robinson who died five days before his second birthday in June 2017.

However police officers were left rushing to the scene after an argument saw chairs thrown across the room, glasses smashed and one female member of staff barged from behind, Kent Live reported.     

Tommy Robinson (pictured),23, had been attending an inquest into the death of his son Jimmy Robinson when a brawl began 

Grandfather James Robinson (pictured), 51, and aunt Abbey Pert, 30, were found guilty of affray alongside the child’s father Tommy Robinson 

Jurors at Maidstone Crown Court heard how a ‘fast, frightening’ punch-up erupted at the hearing in November, which was looking into the child’s mystery death. 

Another man who had been dating the child’s mother at the time – 24-year-old Joe Elkington-Rose – was cleared of affray but found guilty of threatening behaviour.

The four will be sentenced next month for the ‘deeply unpleasant incident’, with Judge Julian Smith granting them all bail.

The fracas began when Elkington-Rose was reluctant to give evidence, after claiming he had received threats.

As assistant coroner Ian Wade QC went to speak with him to try to persuade him to answer questions, chairs and punches were thrown.

Mr Wade quit the post the following day, a decision he claimed had nothing to do with the incident.

Police rushed to the scene after the hearing at the Archbishop’s Palace in Maidstone in November 2018 turned violent

At Maidstone Crown Court jurors heard how a punch-up began at the hearing in November

The inquest had been due to look into the circumstances surrounding Jimmy’s death, five days before his second birthday in 2017.

The child died at London’s St Thomas’ Hospital after suffering a potential cardiac arrest at his mother’s home in Chatham, Kent – but the inquest did not determine exactly how he died.

Speaking in 2018, mother Jordan Beck said: ‘Jimmy was cheeky. He was really good with his sisters when they were born.

‘He wasn’t the typical boy – he liked dolls and liked pushing them around in the buggy. He did have a big personality and he was really clever for his age.

‘He had loads of words and was putting sentences together and had started using his potty, bless him.

‘I’ll never forget him. There’s not one day goes by when I don’t look at my other children and think Jimmy would have done that, or I think Jimmy would have loved that.’

Speaking at the inquest, Prosecutor Patricia May said a police investigation into the death had resulted in ‘no arrests or charges of any individual and the cause of death could not be ascertained.’

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