Violent ATTACK Outside Army Barracks - "Masked Men Broke My Ribs" - Liam Tomsett

0:00CROBRA, 600 minimum unvetted men based in the army barracks there. You've recently been attacked violently by two masked men. Big guys, about a clover it up. They're heavy duty boys, they knew what they were doing. My theory is they're probably hired thugs. And who do you think would have hired them? Home office. It's an uncomfortable message to listen to, but you need to listen to it because it's happening around the country. This is bad. People are getting stabbed, people are getting murdered, people are getting raped. This is real. Why would anyone want that in their community? They've arrested you to send shockwaves through the community so that people think twice about protesting.

0:32Your taxes have gone up, your national insurance is going up. We're funding this invasion, and it is an invasion. This country's great. Why should we allow it to go to shit? If you want to come over here, sponsor the benefits system, rape our kids, rape our mothers, kill us, fuck off, we do not want you. Have you lost a lot of respect for the police?

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1:45Liam. Liam. Thanks for coming on. Thanks for having us. Cobra. There's a big, big spotlight on Cobra at the moment. 600 minimum unvetted men are looking to be based in the army barracks there. you've led the way with somebody else, which we can touch base on. But my main concern is you've recently been attacked violently by two masked men. Correct. Which led to your arrest. So let's start there. Talk me through the night you got attacked by two masked men. What were you doing at the army barracks? Right. So Tuesday night, we're going down the army camp as we do every night now. The plan is to stop contractors coming in and out, question them why they're doing it, try and get into their head a little bit, say like, if it's your town, would you be still doing this?

2:32Some people take it, some people don't. However, Tuesday night, in hindsight, which is a great thing in hindsight, something went right. So they let the other guys go into the camp, which is unheard of. Who are the other guys? So my pals, Gary and the other guys, Gary's my partner. So normally when you go to the army barracks, do they block the entry? Entry's always shut, always shut. So you normally speak to the contractors as they're trying to get through? Either going in or out. And these contractors are doing what to the barracks? They might be painting, they might be doing the floor laying, they could be cleaners, they could be anything.

3:09So the army barracks are decorating the place for the new tenants, which are undetted men? Absolutely, yeah. Spending a fortune on it. And we're back. Streaming on Peacock. May I present to you the award-winning staff of the Toledo Truth Teller. Slap me, jar something loose. Ay, yes! I like that. The certified fresh series returns. Your boss, you always like this, or is this just an act, oh no, this is mad. Oysters, everybody! There's a certain satisfaction when you work with someone. Maybe we could be a family. You sadistic pig! The Paper. New season streaming September 9th, only on Peacock. This show gives me a reason to laugh.

3:48As we know. Okay, so yeah, sorry, I just wanted to know the logistics of it and be able to picture the scene in my head. So normally they don't let you pass a certain point, but this night they did. Didn't let me pass, but let the others go past. Then a message from someone we don't know, from the group chat, it said two coaches going down the other gate. So there's two entrances. We call it entrance B, entrance A. I think they've been watching me for a long time. They know that I would never leave a gate empty. They also know that I'm always late. and the more I think about it, the more orchestrated it was.

4:27So I've tipped up. No one's on the main entrance. As I've driven down there, three vehicles are coming out. They know I'm going to pull across it and stop them and ask them. The difference this time is they're big guys and they're bad at clave it up. But I get out of the car anyway and do my thing. And what is your thing? You're vetting them, I take it. We're asking them questions, you know, like, why are you doing this? What are you doing in there? And most of them will tell you straight away, Oh, we're doing the decorating. Oh, we're doing the floor. Oh, we're security. So you've got out of your vehicle.

4:58You've approached the vehicle. Yeah, and the first vehicle said, look, we're just cleaners. And we need to earn money. And it's like, you can earn money elsewhere. You know, you can cleaner to cleaner. You know, you haven't got to be cleaning in there. It's like, have you got kids? And they both said yes. There's three in there. One wasn't talking. I said, what do you do if it's your town? He's like, look, I agree with you. I agree with you. I said, well, stop working here then. Don't come back tomorrow. Just let us go, mate. We want to see the kids. I'm like, you're not going yet. You're causing trouble for this town.

5:25I'm going to cause you at least a 10-minute delay. You're not going home just yet. And I walked back to the next van, and they were a little bit more aggressive. Not too bad, but they were a little bit more hostile. Weren't going to look at us. Gave us a finger. Tell me the fuck off. That's fine. And I went to the third vehicle, and they were very, very hostile. The drive wasn't ballied up, but he was an older guy, and it's a brand-new car. These aren't cleaners, mate. No offence. I come from nothing, not a snob. But cleaners don't drive brand new Volvos or an Audi car. And they're not six foot six and build up rich houses.

6:07The guy in the passenger seat was very, very hostile, very, very aggressive. Was he wearing a balaclava? Everyone apart from this driver was wearing a balaclava. And how many were in the car? Three. One in the back, two in the front. I got round to the passenger seat. He's asked me if I want it. I've took a step back and he's come out of us. We've had a tear up, we've had a roll around. You know, and it's fair. You know, like, I wouldn't have any quotes about it. You know, if it's one-on-one, it's fine, isn't it? You know, like, if you're putting yourself in the mix, maybe you've got to expect a slap or two.

6:40So he offered you out and you accepted his offer? I took back and he come out and he threw the first punch. I've got a massive split lip. There's blood everywhere. and then I defended myself for sure and then we've gone to the ground and I've just got a kick in the side a kick in the head from the guy I now know from the back seat also back a clover I didn't know this until later on we've got a video we'll keep that for us though So you've got a video of you being attacked by both men and they're kicking you while you're on the floor One's kicking me on the floor one's on the floor with me Fair play to the one I'm having a fight with.

7:18The first we were having a fight. We were having a fair fight. It's the one in the back. But what they have done then is claim that I've dragged them out of the car. My blood's all over the car, by the way. My clatter is all over the place. Nonetheless, so probably I've lost. In fact, I've lost. There's no probably about it. Well, it's very rare one man can beat two men. Absolutely. But then there's been a bit of a melee. and the most worrying thing about this whole event, Liam, it took the police 45 minutes to come to sight. And who called the police? They called the police. Okay, so they've jumped out the car, attacked you, you've defended yourself, then it's two on one, then they're kicking the shit out.

7:57Have you got any injuries? Yeah, I've got cracked ribs, bruised ribs. I've got cut inside my mouth, there's blood everywhere. Nothing too major, you know, nothing that you're going to die from. Did you slip into unconsciousness? No. Okay, so you managed to stay awake throughout the whole thing? Stayed awake the whole time. Was your girlfriend there witnessing this? She's been assaulted as well. They pushed her into the car and they whacked the car door against her. Okay. I didn't know this though until after. Probably good that I didn't. Because that's when you really flip out, isn't it? When you know something like that's happened.

8:31Who fled the scene? No one's fled the scene. So the car and you stayed there? So I stayed there until the police turned up. Then I wandered off. Going to hold my hands up. I've left the scene because we know what's coming. We know what's coming. They're not going to... This was orchestrated. You know this now. You know that you've been done up by some heavy-duty guys. The police have come. They've gone straight to them. Haven't spoke to anyone else. Not even interested in anyone else. So I've wandered off. Haven't run off. I've wandered off. I've just gone away. The golden rule is to make the first call.

9:06Whoever makes the first call gets treated as the victim. Yeah. So they've played a game there. And according to people there, they were almost telling the police what to do. They knew what to do. They knew what to say. Other people were saying that it could be military police. I don't know the fact. These are all theories. But they were heavy-duty boys. They knew what they were doing. And you never got to find out why they were actually there. They're not cleaners. They're security. Maybe. Who knows? We don't trust anything that's being said to us now. Well, I run a security firm, and if one of my lads turned up on shift wearing a balaclava, I'd sack him.

9:40Well, that's the right thing to do, isn't it? Because the security should be, you should be able to know who they are. Completely visible and approachable. Absolutely, yeah. And identifiable. Yeah. So my theory is they're probably hired thugs. And who do you think would have hired them? Home office. You think the home office have hired them? We've been making the home office look stupid, haven't we? Like for four weeks, five weeks, 2 ,000, 3 ,000, 4 ,000 people on the street. Krober's brought in some really, really impressive numbers. I mean, it's a hell of a community I've been there, which we'll touch base on.

10:12So you've then, you've left the scene, then you've gone home, then you got arrested. I went to my partner's house. How they knew I was there, you never know because we haven't been together long. We've kept it quiet. I'm not registered there. So we actually find out now they shouldn't be entering the house without a warrant, but they have done. What was their approach like? So I'm asleep. I'm going to be absent. I was asleep, but Shana's told me they put their foot she opened the door she put his foot in the door and said we're coming through and she said well I want to see a warrant and that's fair you know young female wants to see the warrant and he said we can do this one or two ways you open the door or a fourth of the way through and were the officers in uniform uniform yeah and how many was there so two come in initially and then there was two waiting outside so four in totality they woke me up and I'm asleep I'm in my pants I'm awfully hurt and he's reading me he's telling me I know what's going to happen you know he ain't coming to read me a good night story is he do you know what I mean he's come to take me away and all I wanted to make sure was A she's okay she's calm she's obviously upset like let's not run all the mill stuff you know she's got family you feel guilty because you brought that to her house and we're back streaming on Peacock.

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12:13Not that it came because the police didn't tell me who she'd have organised for me. And did they arrest you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What did they say they were arresting you for? Possession of offensive weapon in the form of a hammer and a common assault. You could have said you was there doing the place up with your hammer. I did DIY, Liam, do you know what I mean? There was a hammer in my car, but it doesn't... who doesn't have a few tools in his car to do bits and pieces with, you know, when you're coming backwards and forwards. And did these guys wearing the masks sustain injuries that would suggest a hammer was used?

12:48Absolutely not. Because you strike somebody with a hammer... You cause them damage, isn't you? ...in the head, chances are you're going to kill them. Absolutely that. No. So you didn't use a weapon? I didn't use a weapon. Okay. So they've charged you for possession of a weapon and assault? Common assault. Common assault. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Since when, as a common assault? Ever happened with a hammer. Yeah. Fucking hell. That's GBH, at the very least. With intent, isn't it? Let's be a bit right. That's a section 18. You've gone out with a hammer to do someone. Yeah. And then they've took you to the station.

13:19What was their attitude towards you like? One o 'clock in the morning. I've woken up. I'm not in the best of frames of mind. Girlfriend's upset. They're upsetting her. And hopefully they want to handcuff me. Yeah. She doesn't want me to be handcuffed. I'm like, listen, just let it go. Just let it happen. Were they recording through body cam? I believe so. I believe so. But one of them had a taser. It was over the top. It was over the top. I'm in my pants. What am I going to do? What are they doing? Shouting and screaming at you? No, they were quite controlled. And one was just a robot. You know, like just a typical Bobby.

13:52Were you offered any medical assistance? Not really. I got seen by a nurse eventually. Who had a little jab around my ribs. Gave me a paracetamol. I kind of feel that it could have been better. You just had a kick on the floor. You're probably... You're in a facility. The hospital ain't a million miles away. I'm being detained. Does it matter where I'm being detained? Could I not have gone away any? How far did they take you from home? Our way. So Cobra to Eastbourne. Eastbourne. Yeah, I know that holding this big round... It's the problem. There is nowhere in Cobra, is there? Because it's not a big enough town.

14:28When it all kicks off in a few weeks' time, where are they going to take these guys? You obviously know that I am very much in support of people taking to the streets, protesting peacefully to try and prevent unvetted men entering into small or large communities that haven't. No one voted for this. Of course they didn't. And I've been to Cobra, as you know. I've reported on Cobra. I've spoke to all the locals. I've seen how controlled it is, how calm you are. So to find out you was beaten up and arrested comes a shock to me. Of course, as well. the bail conditions they've made a big mistake because you'll see on the protests as lovely as the police are down there they haven't got a clue I'm telling them where to stand where to hold their line they ain't got that no more and my mate says I ain't telling them that's their job so I'm now not allowed within 100 yards ish I'll give it a lot longer I'll give it a lot further sorry because I'm not going to let them do me on a technicality by straying into it I'm not going back there on a technicality no way I'll be joining that protest but I'll be joining it much further up where we're on the wall but of course that'll be the perfect place for me so let's come to your bow restrictions once you've told me about the treatment the holding centre the interview how long they kept you in a cell for and also I want to know how they approached the interview did they make you feel like you was top tier criminal so was their understanding in their tone because the higher up the police you get it becomes more and more political so I'm interested to know if the Bobby's on the beat the average Joe Copper that came to nick you, did they want to nick you or do you think they were just there because they had to be there?

16:11They were just there. They had to be there, especially the one I spoke to in the back of the car. I almost felt sorry for him, Liam. You know, I almost felt sorry for him because you could see it going on his head like. But he must be conflicted. He knows he's doing, he's not doing the right thing. Look, I feel sorry for some of them. You know, they're following orders and for fairness, the police on the marches to now have been very, very friendly but most of them, apart from one who I've been liaising with from Brighton, I won't say his name but he'll know who he is if he's watching. He's great.

16:48The others are inept. They do not know how to handle that big crowd and why would they in Crowborough? That's not what they joined up to. If you wanted a load of aggro, you go to Eastbourne, you go to Brighton, you go to Hastings, you'd go to Crawley, wouldn't you? You wouldn't pick Uckfield or Cobra. You're going there for quite a life. Easy life. Yeah. So now they've got this thrust upon them. They're the much victims of anyone else, you know, ish. The locals are much worse off. And how on earth would they deal with, let's just say, 10 % of the 600 migrants coming in if they decide to misbehave?

17:19Well, if it's on a Sunday, it's closed. So not very well. It's not kicking it up for it, Liam. We know this, you know. This is a trial run, isn't it? They're saying that Craber is a trial run. Call it off. And also, if your community is a trial run for how to react, you're also doing very well. Thank you. They've brought you to the desk and the sergeant's reading you the right act, what you've been arrested for. Where does it go from there? First off, they can't do my fingerprints. The machine's not working. Is it not? Okay, but then I'm there for another 21 hours. They still don't do it to the very, very end.

17:57I go in, I say, look, I've got bad ribs. Is there any chance of an extra blanket? No, we've got a short of blankets. You can have two, that's your lot. Were you worried what was going to happen? Did you think, I mean, you know what you've done or what you didn't do, but were there any thoughts running through your head thinking, I know that the police don't want us protesting. Are they going to stitch me up? Of course, yeah, 100%. And I'm not even thinking the police. I'm thinking the establishment. And I've got to a point now where I'm thinking, I don't think they're going to interview me. I think it's going to hold me for 24 hours and let me go.

18:27And then, right, your interview. Normally you get like a, get a little warning, don't you? Your interview's coming in 20 minutes or your half hour, your solicitor's in the door. I want to rewind, actually. So my partner had been ringing someone else up. I'm going to say it. He'd been ringing up Ryan Bridge from Razor Colours to get me a good solicitor. And they arranged something between them all throughout the day. And when I went for my interview, I said, you're the juicer or yeah I said well where's the solicitor my partner's been he said well you're 18 and you don't need you won't have anyone act on your behalf I said but you haven't actually asked me the question you're over 18 only just he said but no one's asked me no one said to me there's no solicitor available to me like why not like surely he would if someone's arranged for you to have a solicitor up here no offence to the guy that was a juicer he actually done really really well he was really good and the credit where credit's jury done a sterling job for us.

19:26But that's another failing, isn't it? You know, like you should be communicated to. Do you want the solicitor that your partner's organised? Yes or no? Not that she's telling me I've got to have it, but the question should have been asked. Been there 21 hours. You know, like, not like I could have forgotten. Do you know what I mean? I'd run out of time. So. You're in the interview room now. In the interview room. How are you feeling? All right. Because you give your little bit of time and a brief, isn't you? And he's like, you shouldn't have been here. He said, you should have been let go five hours ago.

19:52He said, the CID have looked for your car. No evidence in there to charge you. He said, we're going no comment. And he said, we're going to be out of here in 20 minutes. I said, well, thank you. I think I've had enough of it here now. Two people interviewing you? Yeah. What was their attitudes like? One was all right. One was, one got arty with me. She didn't like me going no comment. And I went no comment before she finished answering the question. and she's like can you just wait to answer the question and I was like okay and then the question she answered I went you finished she went yeah I went no comment and she went now you're taking the piss and I was like well just and he's like I want that taken off he said and he was great but the whole thing is a piss take of course it is the whole thing is taking the piss I could have been let go at 5 o 'clock I've been interviewed at half past 9 I've come out of my interview I've got to wait to be with my fingerprints taken which should have happened 21 hours ago yeah the solicitor says to me you're not going back to your cell you're going back in that room he said you're not going back to your cell he said I don't care if you've got stuff in your cell he said I'll go and get it for you he's a really good guy like so like fair play credit where credit is to you I didn't you know I wanted the other guy but he was brilliant so like credit to him he said go and wait in that room he said I'll go I'll get them to go and check your cell I said I don't think there's anything in there anyway mate so so far I level with you the kick in sounds very suspicious The fact there was multiple men wearing balaclavas is a concern.

21:22Your treatment in the police station, kind of by the by, they're going to stall, they're going to delay, they're going to make you feel awkward. It's a kind of bit of a mind game they play, so you sit there worrying. My takeaway so far is this, and this is the part that worries me, the country over, is that I know the establishment don't want local communities protesting against their plan. Of course not. Because that is an orchestrated plan. Nobody voted for migrants to be shipped in legally or illegally, particularly illegally from the boats coming from God knows where without any paperwork.

21:55So for me, I'm thinking you shouldn't have been arrested. I think, but you tell me this is about you, not me, but I think they've arrested you to send shockwaves through the community so that people think twice about protesting. And we're back. Streaming on Peacock. May I present to you the award-winning staff of the Toledo Truth Teller. Slap me. Let's jar something loose. Ay, yes! I like that. The Certified Fresh Series returns. Your boss. You always like this? Or is this just an act, oh no, this is mad? Oysters, everybody! There's a certain satisfaction when you work with someone. Maybe we could be a family.

22:33You sadistic pig! The Paper. New season streaming September 9th, only on Peacock. This show gives me a reason to laugh. So absolutely they have. And they put a restriction on me, which stops me going anywhere near the army camp, which I won't be able to do, because I would say I'm not going back in there for a whole day or longer, for something stupid like that. But all they've done is they've pushed the temperature up. People are going there now that weren't going there because of what's happened to me. I'm documenting my story. I'm telling my story through my social media. I'm going to sit there and be quiet about it.

23:05What happened wasn't right. My car being impounded isn't right. They told me on Tuesday, there's nothing in there. So why are they still keeping it? They've still got it. They've still got it. So it's not disheartening the community. It's fired them up more. It's fired them up. We were struggling for numbers down there. I'm being told now that there's double numbers. So thank you very much. Done a job for me. I was really struggling. Do I think they'd be able to hold the coaches? Possibly not. When you say the coaches, who are the coaches full of? Migrants. That was the whole goal. So then now, because I know there was a bit of a stall in the process.

23:44I think I read something about asbestos. But I did also read, irrespective of the fact that there's thousands of people protesting, that the government are going to speed track it almost to get these men in there. Fast track it, they said, didn't they? Yeah, they're going to accelerate their plans to get Krober going because it's going to save on hotels. Let's have it right. The hotels aren't closing down. This is as well as. No, totally. And I think this is what people don't really understand. It's not necessarily about, it's not the men in there getting the free meals a day and the table tennis and the pool tables and the free accommodation.

24:19Well, that's a piss take because we're paying for it. They said on a meeting it's homeless money. It's not homeless money, it's our money. You're spending our money. The main cost of it is going to be all your contractors, all your labour. You know, they've had like£100 ,000 worth of generators going in there. And this is what I say about us embarrassing them. We stopped the generator. The generator stopped working last weekend, and we stopped the guy going in there to fix it. Massive embarrassment. And it got documented everywhere. I think it even went on the BBC. Even the BBC started reporting on it.

24:50Well, the BBC, I saw this the other night. The BBC were reporting that you've formed your own vigilante group. Yeah, I see that. I think they're actually talking about the Crabble Watch, not our group. I believe Right So there's different groups going on all over the place So who are the alleged vigilante group and what are they doing? So I don't want to call them a vigilante group they're a group of guys that have got together to defend the community against these undocumented unvetted men that are coming in So remember the guy that was leading the march with the The ex-para The beret He's massively involved with him and one other Just a bunch of guys coming together to look after the community very much like we're doing with the protests And how are they?

25:32And how are you? Because I know that you do your demonstrations on a Wednesday and a Sunday, but you're also there more frequently. How are you policing it? And how could it be perceived as vigilante work? If you're doing it all peacefully and you're just asking questions because you're entitled to ask. I don't know, why would you call it vigilantes? It's just people, isn't it? It's just the community coming together. It's the BBC, let's be honest. It's the mainstream media. Propaganda. Propaganda. Trying to make people out to be something they're not. Look, you've been there, Liam. You've seen the demographic of people on the street.