Unite the Kingdom pervert tries to defend sexually harassing child
On 18 May, [we reported that](https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/05/18/teenage-girl-harassed-edobbin/) online influencer “EDobbins” had sexually harassed a child at Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally. Since then, the Rochdale-based micro-celebrity has attempted to defend himself, but no one’s buying it:
>  Scott Margerison aka E.Dobbin is feeling the pressure from his video. He claims the person he harassed is not a child (because she has tattoos and her mum was ‘having a joke’), and that anyone who is concerned with his creepy behaviour should tell the police. Sounds like a… <https://t.co/xD8IBGsby0> [pic.twitter.com/Gg09Z75gUU](https://t.co/Gg09Z75gUU)
>
> — HUMAN WA$TE (@Dplanet) [May 19, 2026](https://twitter.com/Dplanet/status/2056716235690143817)
Excuses
-------
In the video above, EDobbin said:
> Hello everyone. So I’m getting loads of messages telling me that I’m a nonce. So ‘nonce’ means ‘Not of Normal Criminal Exercise’.
Technically, it stands for ‘Not on Normal Courtyard Exercise’, referencing the sex offenders who weren’t permitted to mix with other inmates. It’s now common British slang for “paedophile”, and the reason people are calling him a ‘nonce’ is because he published a video in which he sexually harassed a girl who was said to be 15 years old.
EDobbin continued:
> If you truly believe that I am a criminal and that I have criminally done something and engaged in something what I shouldn’t be doing, then please report me to the police. I will happily engage with conversation with the police. The girl that I spoke to, now, if we can get a message to this girl so she can just tell us all how old she is, she’s got tattoos.
People have disputed the idea that she had tattoos, and we couldn’t see any ourselves:
> He’s saying she was over 20, but that’s irrelevant. He was told she was 15, yet still followed her and joked, “I’m going to jail in a minute.” He knew he was being a wrong’un.
>
> — Mukhtar (@I\_amMukhtar) [May 19, 2026](https://twitter.com/I_amMukhtar/status/2056734219766829232)
EDobbin also said:
> Her mum was having a joke. You’ve got to have a look into it a little bit deeper than the surface level shit that you’re all used to. You’re so toxic, you just jump on. If you watch The Simpsons, you lot are all the people who just chase The Simpsons with pitchforks and attack, and attack, and attack. And you’re all stupid c\*nts.
>
> That girl was not 15 years old who I was talking to. She was over 20-something.
>
> Hopefully, she will potentially put a message out just to prove it, that she is.
EDobbin would later claim the girl contacted him:
> Lying cunt update.
> Report his Instagram.
> Report his TikTok.
> Report his Facebook.
> Get. Him. Gone.
>  <https://t.co/oXyO2yE7pu> [pic.twitter.com/13mCn10dLU](https://t.co/13mCn10dLU)
>
> — Zomby Pop (@TheZombyPop) [May 19, 2026](https://twitter.com/TheZombyPop/status/2056548586297430132)
The Instagram in question belongs to a young woman who looks similar to the girl in that they’re both brunettes. They don’t seem to be the same person upon closer inspection, but it’s difficult to say conclusively, because the woman on Instagram could be using any number of filters or camera tricks.
In his video, EDobbin also said:
> There’s no such thing as negative press.
And:
> F\*ck yourself.
This was all filmed in a van with a mattress in the back of it:
> The fuckin bed in the back  <https://t.co/zfAmYUxaQN>
>
> — Xannon The Buses (@xannon199) [May 19, 2026](https://twitter.com/xannon199/status/2056654020236754998)
Caught on camera
----------------
[EDobbin is an incredibly strange individual](https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/05/18/teenage-girl-harassed-edobbin/) who believes the Earth is flat and that mountains are the fossilised remains of dragons. As [we said on 18 May](https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/05/18/teenage-girl-harassed-edobbin/), however, being an oddball is no excuse for behaving like an out-and-out paedophile.
This is what happened in the video which originally brought him to national attention:
> At the start of the video, ‘influencer’ EDobbin greets a trio of men in Union Jack suits before putting his arm around a passing child and describing her as “my little girlfriend”. After asking what her name is, the teenage girl’s mother said:
>
> > She ain’t no child bride.
>
> When asked how old the girl is, the mother clearly answered “15”. Whoever captioned the video wrote “16”, which is the legal age of consent in the UK.
>
> Suggesting that EDobbin definitely heard “15”, he responded:
>
> > Fucking hell. How old are you really? Please, I’m going to go to jail in a minute.
Following the above, EDobbin proceeded to follow the mother and child down the street, asking the young girl for her “details”, and saying “look at that” as he secretly filmed her.
As people have highlighted, EDobbin wears glasses that allow him to covertly film the people he speaks with:
> Mate, if you're not a pervert, why are you wearing Zuckerberg's Pervert Goggles? <https://t.co/5p7eKE75Lr>
>
> — The Marquiz de Slade (@Mudkipstoat23) [May 19, 2026](https://twitter.com/Mudkipstoat23/status/2056689434016223690)
Reporting on the Meta Ray-Ban glasses, [*Open* wrote](https://openthemagazine.com/technology/how-meta-turned-a-pair-of-sunglasses-into-the-most-controversial-camera-in-the-world):
> **What Makes Meta’s Smart Glasses Difficult to Spot?**
>
> The camera in Meta’s Ray-Bans sits flush within the frame, and the recording indicator light is reportedly so dim in daylight that most bystanders never notice it.
>
> To the untrained eye, they are ordinary eyewear, which makes covert recording effortless.
>
> **Who Is Already Being Filmed Without Their Knowledge?**
>
> Reports have emerged of women being secretly recorded in public by men wearing AI glasses, often for prank or unsolicited content.
>
> One woman told the BBC that when she requested a video of herself be removed, she was told it was “a paid service.” Since public photography is broadly legal, victims have little recourse
When people talk about the risks of this technology, EDobbin is precisely the sort of person they’re warning about.
Grim
----
The grim irony in all this is that many of those who spoke at the Unite the Kingdom rally claim to be protectors of women. In reality, these people ignore their friends to focus on a minority of a minority for political capital.[Unite the Kingdom organiser Tommy Robinson is among the worst offenders for this](https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/09/24/tommy-robinson-lauren-southern/):
> British grooming gangs  [pic.twitter.com/p00ZHFYCBH](https://t.co/p00ZHFYCBH)
>
> — The Saviour (@TheSaviour) [May 18, 2026](https://twitter.com/TheSaviour/status/2056521465030136217)
[As Maddison Wheeldon wrote for the *Canary* on 20 October](https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/10/20/immigrants-women-girls/):
> Women and girls have a legitimate reason to feel increasingly unsafe in our society, but it’s not because of immigrants and foreigners, it is far simpler than that; it’s because of men.
>
> I can hear the protestations already, ‘Not All Men’, and of course, that would be ridiculous to assert. So then, why do we feel so comfortable to slap a label on all male immigrants, simply because the establishment tells us to?
>
> When we dig just a little deeper, it very quickly becomes obvious that the ‘threat of the immigrant’, touted by the mainstream press and far-right pundits is as baseless as their moral consciences. Trust me, it would be wonderfully helpful if there were identifying characteristics that could help women and girls stay safe, but that is a complete fiction.
Another grim reality is that Black and minoritized migrant women face additional challenges on this front as a result of government failings, [as the women’s organisation Hibiscus stated](https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/05/19/labour-blasted/):
> At a time when meaningful action is urgently needed, the government has once again failed to address the structural inequalities that make women vulnerable to violence in the first place. There are no concrete commitments to invest in specialist support services, no long-term funding guarantees for by and for organisations, and no serious recognition of the socio-economic and political realities facing Black and minoritised migrant women. Instead, several of the proposed bills appear either dangerously indifferent to these realities or intentionally punitive in nature.
A serious issue
---------------
While it’s easy to ridicule figures like EDobbin, it’s crucial to remember that there’s nothing funny about men like him to the women and children they harass. We’ve very little time for the adults who attended the Unite the Kingdom rally, but even they don’t deserve to be followed and harassed by creeps like this, and that’s especially true for any children they took with them.
*Featured image via [Twitter](https://x.com/Miss__HM/status/2056483359904186698)*
By [Willem Moore](https://www.thecanary.co/author/willem-moore/)
---
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On 18 May, [we reported that](https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/05/18/teenage-girl-harassed-edobbin/) online influencer “EDobbins” had sexually harassed a child at Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally. Since then, the Rochdale-based micro-celebrity has attempted to defend himself, but no one’s buying it:
>  Scott Margerison aka E.Dobbin is feeling the pressure from his video. He claims the person he harassed is not a child (because she has tattoos and her mum was ‘having a joke’), and that anyone who is concerned with his creepy behaviour should tell the police. Sounds like a… <https://t.co/xD8IBGsby0> [pic.twitter.com/Gg09Z75gUU](https://t.co/Gg09Z75gUU)
>
> — HUMAN WA$TE (@Dplanet) [May 19, 2026](https://twitter.com/Dplanet/status/2056716235690143817)
Excuses
-------
In the video above, EDobbin said:
> Hello everyone. So I’m getting loads of messages telling me that I’m a nonce. So ‘nonce’ means ‘Not of Normal Criminal Exercise’.
Technically, it stands for ‘Not on Normal Courtyard Exercise’, referencing the sex offenders who weren’t permitted to mix with other inmates. It’s now common British slang for “paedophile”, and the reason people are calling him a ‘nonce’ is because he published a video in which he sexually harassed a girl who was said to be 15 years old.
EDobbin continued:
> If you truly believe that I am a criminal and that I have criminally done something and engaged in something what I shouldn’t be doing, then please report me to the police. I will happily engage with conversation with the police. The girl that I spoke to, now, if we can get a message to this girl so she can just tell us all how old she is, she’s got tattoos.
People have disputed the idea that she had tattoos, and we couldn’t see any ourselves:
> He’s saying she was over 20, but that’s irrelevant. He was told she was 15, yet still followed her and joked, “I’m going to jail in a minute.” He knew he was being a wrong’un.
>
> — Mukhtar (@I\_amMukhtar) [May 19, 2026](https://twitter.com/I_amMukhtar/status/2056734219766829232)
EDobbin also said:
> Her mum was having a joke. You’ve got to have a look into it a little bit deeper than the surface level shit that you’re all used to. You’re so toxic, you just jump on. If you watch The Simpsons, you lot are all the people who just chase The Simpsons with pitchforks and attack, and attack, and attack. And you’re all stupid c\*nts.
>
> That girl was not 15 years old who I was talking to. She was over 20-something.
>
> Hopefully, she will potentially put a message out just to prove it, that she is.
EDobbin would later claim the girl contacted him:
> Lying cunt update.
> Report his Instagram.
> Report his TikTok.
> Report his Facebook.
> Get. Him. Gone.
>  <https://t.co/oXyO2yE7pu> [pic.twitter.com/13mCn10dLU](https://t.co/13mCn10dLU)
>
> — Zomby Pop (@TheZombyPop) [May 19, 2026](https://twitter.com/TheZombyPop/status/2056548586297430132)
The Instagram in question belongs to a young woman who looks similar to the girl in that they’re both brunettes. They don’t seem to be the same person upon closer inspection, but it’s difficult to say conclusively, because the woman on Instagram could be using any number of filters or camera tricks.
In his video, EDobbin also said:
> There’s no such thing as negative press.
And:
> F\*ck yourself.
This was all filmed in a van with a mattress in the back of it:
> The fuckin bed in the back  <https://t.co/zfAmYUxaQN>
>
> — Xannon The Buses (@xannon199) [May 19, 2026](https://twitter.com/xannon199/status/2056654020236754998)
Caught on camera
----------------
[EDobbin is an incredibly strange individual](https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/05/18/teenage-girl-harassed-edobbin/) who believes the Earth is flat and that mountains are the fossilised remains of dragons. As [we said on 18 May](https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/05/18/teenage-girl-harassed-edobbin/), however, being an oddball is no excuse for behaving like an out-and-out paedophile.
This is what happened in the video which originally brought him to national attention:
> At the start of the video, ‘influencer’ EDobbin greets a trio of men in Union Jack suits before putting his arm around a passing child and describing her as “my little girlfriend”. After asking what her name is, the teenage girl’s mother said:
>
> > She ain’t no child bride.
>
> When asked how old the girl is, the mother clearly answered “15”. Whoever captioned the video wrote “16”, which is the legal age of consent in the UK.
>
> Suggesting that EDobbin definitely heard “15”, he responded:
>
> > Fucking hell. How old are you really? Please, I’m going to go to jail in a minute.
Following the above, EDobbin proceeded to follow the mother and child down the street, asking the young girl for her “details”, and saying “look at that” as he secretly filmed her.
As people have highlighted, EDobbin wears glasses that allow him to covertly film the people he speaks with:
> Mate, if you're not a pervert, why are you wearing Zuckerberg's Pervert Goggles? <https://t.co/5p7eKE75Lr>
>
> — The Marquiz de Slade (@Mudkipstoat23) [May 19, 2026](https://twitter.com/Mudkipstoat23/status/2056689434016223690)
Reporting on the Meta Ray-Ban glasses, [*Open* wrote](https://openthemagazine.com/technology/how-meta-turned-a-pair-of-sunglasses-into-the-most-controversial-camera-in-the-world):
> **What Makes Meta’s Smart Glasses Difficult to Spot?**
>
> The camera in Meta’s Ray-Bans sits flush within the frame, and the recording indicator light is reportedly so dim in daylight that most bystanders never notice it.
>
> To the untrained eye, they are ordinary eyewear, which makes covert recording effortless.
>
> **Who Is Already Being Filmed Without Their Knowledge?**
>
> Reports have emerged of women being secretly recorded in public by men wearing AI glasses, often for prank or unsolicited content.
>
> One woman told the BBC that when she requested a video of herself be removed, she was told it was “a paid service.” Since public photography is broadly legal, victims have little recourse
When people talk about the risks of this technology, EDobbin is precisely the sort of person they’re warning about.
Grim
----
The grim irony in all this is that many of those who spoke at the Unite the Kingdom rally claim to be protectors of women. In reality, these people ignore their friends to focus on a minority of a minority for political capital.[Unite the Kingdom organiser Tommy Robinson is among the worst offenders for this](https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/09/24/tommy-robinson-lauren-southern/):
> British grooming gangs  [pic.twitter.com/p00ZHFYCBH](https://t.co/p00ZHFYCBH)
>
> — The Saviour (@TheSaviour) [May 18, 2026](https://twitter.com/TheSaviour/status/2056521465030136217)
[As Maddison Wheeldon wrote for the *Canary* on 20 October](https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/10/20/immigrants-women-girls/):
> Women and girls have a legitimate reason to feel increasingly unsafe in our society, but it’s not because of immigrants and foreigners, it is far simpler than that; it’s because of men.
>
> I can hear the protestations already, ‘Not All Men’, and of course, that would be ridiculous to assert. So then, why do we feel so comfortable to slap a label on all male immigrants, simply because the establishment tells us to?
>
> When we dig just a little deeper, it very quickly becomes obvious that the ‘threat of the immigrant’, touted by the mainstream press and far-right pundits is as baseless as their moral consciences. Trust me, it would be wonderfully helpful if there were identifying characteristics that could help women and girls stay safe, but that is a complete fiction.
Another grim reality is that Black and minoritized migrant women face additional challenges on this front as a result of government failings, [as the women’s organisation Hibiscus stated](https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/05/19/labour-blasted/):
> At a time when meaningful action is urgently needed, the government has once again failed to address the structural inequalities that make women vulnerable to violence in the first place. There are no concrete commitments to invest in specialist support services, no long-term funding guarantees for by and for organisations, and no serious recognition of the socio-economic and political realities facing Black and minoritised migrant women. Instead, several of the proposed bills appear either dangerously indifferent to these realities or intentionally punitive in nature.
A serious issue
---------------
While it’s easy to ridicule figures like EDobbin, it’s crucial to remember that there’s nothing funny about men like him to the women and children they harass. We’ve very little time for the adults who attended the Unite the Kingdom rally, but even they don’t deserve to be followed and harassed by creeps like this, and that’s especially true for any children they took with them.
*Featured image via [Twitter](https://x.com/Miss__HM/status/2056483359904186698)*
By [Willem Moore](https://www.thecanary.co/author/willem-moore/)
---
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