Two EDL members arrested at 'sponsored walk'
Date published: 29 June 2013
Leader of the EDL, Tommy Robinson speaking at an EDL demo in Rochdale town centre
Two members of the English Defence League who planned to do a sponsored walk to Woolwich to lay flowers at the place where soldier Lee Rigby was killed on 22 May have been arrested.
EDL leader Tommy Robinson and Kevin Caroll were arrested outside Aldgate East Tube station in east London.
Police made an order on Friday confining an Armed Forces Day demonstration to an area between Hyde Park Corner and Westminster.
The two men planned to pass East London Mosque on their walk from Hyde Park.
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