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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.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What on earth is this judge on?

white supremacy, it's a hell of a drug..

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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..

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like the judge is an idiot or a neo nazi themselves.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

All the way down.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Evidently, there's a Neo-Nazi holding the gavel in this case, too...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Settler colony doing settler colony things

Least surprising thing I've seen all week

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

There is no justice system.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

So the time traveling Nazis just walk free?