# ‘Danny Tommo’ pleads guilty to criminal damage after slashing migrant boat with knife in English Channel

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/danny-tommo-pleads-guilty-to-criminal-damage-after-slashing-migrant-boat-with-knife-in-english-channel/
- Published: 2026-11-12T10:05:24+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-12T10:19:33+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16286623/Danny-Tommo-pleads-guilty-criminal-damage-English-Channel.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Danny Tommo admitted criminal damage after slashing an empty dinghy.
- The incident happened as rescue crews assisted people in the Channel.
- He denies failing to give police his phone PIN.

## Summary

Activist Danny Tommo, whose real name is Daniel Thomas, has pleaded guilty to criminal damage after slashing an empty migrant dinghy with a knife in the English Channel. The case concerns his actions as rescue crews were assisting people from the dinghy, and the comments he made at the scene.

Thomas, 37, changed his plea to guilty to the single criminal damage charge while appearing by video link from prison at Portsmouth Crown Court. Prosecutors said he directed his boat towards the adrift dinghy and slashed it as RNLI, Border Force and French Coastguard crews approached. He remains accused of refusing to disclose his phone’s PIN to police under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and pleaded not guilty to that charge.

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