Activist Daniel Thomas admits criminal damage after slashing migrant dinghy in Channel

Activist Daniel Thomas, also known as Danny Tommo, has admitted criminal damage after slashing a migrant dinghy with a knife in the English Channel. The 37-year-old changed his plea to the single charge when he appeared via video link from prison at Portsmouth Crown Court on Thursday. A court previously heard that he had taken a boat into the English Channel and observed the migrant occupants of a dinghy being assisted by the RNLI lifeboat charity, Border Force and the French Coastguard. Thomas, whose address was withheld by the court at a previous hearing, admitted using a knife on the dinghy which had French personnel on board. He will be sentenced at the same court on 18 November.