Neo-Nazis walk free from court, spared further jail time over attack on Victorian hikers
Neo-Nazis walk free from court, spared further jail time over attack on Victorian hikers
White supremacists Thomas Sewell and Jacob Hersant walk free from the Country Court of Victoria after being convicted over an attack on six people in 2021.
In short: Neo-Nazis Thomas Sewell and Jacob Hersant have avoided further jail time after they were convicted of a 2021 attack on hikers at a Victorian state park. County Court Judge Kellie Blair wished the pair luck and said she believed the prospects of both men being rehabilitated were good. Sewell and Hersant maintained their innocence after the hearing and made anti-Semitic and homophobic comments to gathered media. What's next? Hersant must complete 200 hours of community service as part of his sentencing.
County Court Judge Kellie Blair wished the pair luck and said she believed the prospects of both men being rehabilitated were good. Sewell and Hersant maintained their innocence after the hearing and made anti-Semitic and homophobic comments to gathered media
What on earth is this judge on? You can't have prospects of rehabilitation while your actively acting like a neonazi literally outside the courthouse.... what the hell
And the part where she didn't think their behaviour was racially or politically motivated. Like, they're fucking nazis...it's all racially and politically motivated.
I didn't see that part. That is Trump level trolling.
What on earth is this judge on?
white supremacy, it's a hell of a drug..
Holy fuck. Try being aboriginal and doing the same thing, see where that fucking lands you.
They probably would have maimed or killed the hikers if they were able. What the fuck?
That judge is a fucking Nazi, Thomas is well known and absolutely unrepentant. A Nazi through and through.
What the flying fark? You get more fucking gaol time for stealing a trolley of groceries from woolies. What kind of group not out for violence is just casually carrying balaclavas and knives?
Try being aboriginal and doing the same thing, see where that fucking lands you.
I would imagine it would take much less than what these Nazis did to get an Aboriginal person in to significantly more trouble..
Sounds like the judge is an idiot or a neo nazi themselves.
Porque no los dos
Seriously though, what the actual fuck:
"You were both active participants in the offending," Judge Blair said.
However the judge said she did not believe the attack on the hikers was politically or racially motivated, and agreed it was not premeditated.
"In both your cases your prospects of rehabilitation are good," she said.
Judge Blair sentenced Sewell to five weeks in jail, but said he did not need to return to custody having already spent time in prison when his bail was denied.
Hersant, 24, was sentenced to three days' jail — the same amount of time he had already spent in custody.
Outside court, Sewell and Hersant told journalists they were innocent of the charges, despite entering guilty pleas.
They spouted homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs and walked off.
All the way down.
They both have kids under a year old and both pleaded guilty early on, saving the victims having to take the stand.
I think it was a fair
decisionoutcome but should have been made to pay compensation [EDIT: and the judge's comment that it wasn't racial or political... WTF?]I had a similar interaction myself back in the late 90's.
I had loggers stomp on my parked car, with me in it, in Orbost (a logging town in Victoria) because they rightly guessed I was headed for the protestors camp. Had to drive hunched over because they caved the roof in a little.
It began because it was pub closing time on a Friday night and one of their more worldly mates had exited the pub early to warn me but I had ordered a pizza after my long drive and naively decided to wait. Oops.
Lucky that, as I drove off, the drunk attackers standing on the car didn't fall and kill themselves.
Reported to cops but I wasn't interested in taking it to court (I lived far away) only in payment for repairs and that was arranged without fuss.
Giving nazis a slap on the wrist because they have kids after 25 of them rushed a car while armed and started attacking it because "someone had their phone pointed at them" isn't reasonable mate. Having young kids or pregnant partners sure didnt hold them back from attacking those hikers unprovoked. They didn't think for one minute about the hikers young kids or their pregnant partners.
These fucks had knives, had smashed in the passenger window and were grabbing at the drivers keys. If not for quick work by the driver, those 6 people would be badly injured or dead.
The fact they walked out of that courtroom with minimal time served, no fines, and a glowing recommendation about how rehabilitated they would soon be as they dropped racial and homophobic slurs is just some real sad sack shit man. It's got almost zero percent to do with some drunk loggers pissed off at someone they see as costing them their jobs in an otherwise bleak economy.
Ain't nothing reasonable about this.
Evidently, there's a Neo-Nazi holding the gavel in this case, too...
Settler colony doing settler colony things
Least surprising thing I've seen all week
Great advertising for the rest of the Nazi boneheads backing Sewell and co that they'll at worst get off with a rap over the knuckles if they engage in similar behaviour. After all the back patting over banning Nazi symbols they let this pair off the hook. Ripper stuff.
I really hope the local synagogues and mosques up their security.
They shouldn't have to of course, and it would never be enough because we exist outside of our places of worship, but this shit absolutely will just embolden these nazis, and as you say, their friends, to do worse, and I've already seen a comment about them being openly associated with the Christchurch shooter, so it really isn't a huge leap to guess what they'll be up to next..
So the time traveling Nazis just walk free?