Adeyinka Grandson has been jailed for four-and-a-half years over inciting racial hatred

Adeyinka Grandson, president of the Young Yorubas for Freedom (YYF) revolutionist has been jailed for four and half years by a United Kingdom court over his social media posts against some ethnic groups in Nigeria.<br /><br />The west London man is accused and convicted for racial hatred with inflammatory messages encouraging violence in Nigeria.<br /><br />Adeyinka Shoyemi, 45, of Powis Terrace in Notting Hill, first came to the attention of counter-terror police in March 2019 after members of the public reported his posts on a social network targeting particular ethnic groups in Nigeria.<br /><br />The messages, posted by accounts under the name ‘Adeyinka Grandson’, were assessed by a specialist group of officers in the Met’s Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU).<br /><br />They found the posts, which had commentary encouraging attacks against certain ethnic groups, were in potential breach of the law .<br /><br />He was initially arrested at his home address in August 2019, with officers searching three properties linked to him and seizing various digital devices.<br /><br />Shoyemi was initially charged with six counts of inciting racial hatred and he was released on bail with a condition not to post any more social media posts which were threatening, abusive or insulting to any ethnic groups. He was later rearrested for disregarding the bail condition. <br /><br />Shoyemi was sentenced to four-and-a-half years’ behind bars on Thursday.<br /><br />He was found guilty on November 30 of eight counts of inciting racial hatred after a trial at Southwark Crown Court.<br /><br />Commander Richard Smith, head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, said: “Our Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit – the first of its kind to be established anywhere in the world – was instrumental in identifying Shoyemi and his activity.<br /><br />“Over the last ten years, the CTIRU has been at the forefront of getting harmful content removed from the internet, and detecting and investigating potential terrorist-related