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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/edl-leaders-assault-charge-dropped.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Charges that Stephen Lennon assaulted a police officer at a Muslims Against Remembrance Day protest have been dropped" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-edl-leaders-assault-charge-dropped.jpg" alt="Charges that Stephen Lennon assaulted a police officer at a Muslims Against Remembrance Day protest have been dropped"/></a></p>
<p>Prosecutors have dropped claims the founder of the English Defence League assaulted a police officer during clashes with Islamic protesters.</p>
<p>Stephen Lennon, 27, of Layham Drive, Luton, was due to go on trial on Wednesday afternoon at West London Magistrates&#8217; Court.</p>
<p>But the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it had withdrawn the charge after new evidence emerged.</p>
<p>However, a spokesman said Lennon will now face an offence under section four of the Public Order Act, but has yet to be charged.</p>
<p>Lennon was arrested by Met Police officers in Kensington, west London, as the nation stopped to mark the anniversary of Armistice Day last year.</p>
<p>He was among a group of EDL demonstrators which clashed with a militant Islamist group which burned poppies during the two-minute silence.</p>
<p>One officer suffered a head injury which required hospital treatment during the clashes involving more than 50 people.</p>
<p>Five others associated with his right-wing group were arrested and two Muslim protesters were held on suspicion of public order offences.</p>
<p>Members of the Islamist group Muslims Against Crusades have vowed to &#8220;expose the enemies of Islam&#8221;.</p>
<p>Two men, aged 30 and 26, have since been charged with public order offences and are due to go on trial later this year.</p>
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