Nazi salute accused to fight charge in two-day hearing A man accused of making a Nazi salute outside a Melbourne court will argue the charge is constitutionally invalid in a two-day contested hearing. AAP · May 9, 2024
Neo-Nazi leaders avoid more jail after appeal dismissed Neo-Nazi group leaders Thomas Sewell and Jacob Hersant will not spend more time behind bars after prosecutors lost an appeal on their sentences. AAP · Apr 23, 2024
Prosecutors push for more jail for neo-Nazi leaders Neo-Nazi group leaders Thomas Sewell and Jacob Hersant are facing the prospect of being re-sentenced to more prison time as prosecutors launch an appeal. AAP · Mar 22, 2024
Nazi salute accused escalates as he fights case A man accused of making a Nazi salute outside a court will involve state, territory and federal attorneys-general as he makes a constitutional argument. AAP · Feb 2, 2024
First person charged over Nazi salute facing jail time The first person charged with performing a Nazi salute in Victoria is facing prison time, a court has been told, as he struggles to get funding for a lawyer. AAP · Jan 16, 2024
First man charged over banned Nazi salute faces court Jacob Hersant, 24, the first Victorian charged with performing a Nazi salute, requested an adjournment before going on an anti-Semitic tirade outside court. AAP · Dec 8, 2023
Victorian neo-Nazis under police investigation over alleged salute for TV cameras Investigation into Thomas Sewell and Jacob Hersant comes a week after new laws took effect in Victoria outlawing the Nazi salute The Guardian - AU · Oct 27, 2023
Neo-Nazi leaders admit hiker attack but claim innocence Neo-Nazi group leaders Jacob Hersant and Thomas Sewell pleaded guilty to an attack on a group of hikers, but now claim they're innocent. AAP · Oct 27, 2023
Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell spared jail over 'sickening' assault on security guard A neo-Nazi has narrowly avoided jail, despite being convicted of a "sickening" assault on a Channel Nine security guard outside the network's headquarters. ABC News · Jan 12, 2023
Neo-Nazi asks for fine over brutal attack Thomas Sewell has asked a court to consider his employer and heavily pregnant fiancee as he pushes for a fine and a non-conviction order over a brutal attack. AAP · Jan 12, 2023
White nationalist Thomas Sewell found guilty of assaulting security guard as his friend filmed Thomas Sewell racially taunted a security guard outside the Docklands headquarters before landing a flurry of punches on his unsuspecting victim. ABC News · Dec 20, 2022
Neo-Nazi guilty of Nine guard beating Right-wing leader Thomas Sewell may be jailed for injuring a security guard in a fight outside Nine Network's building, after a magistrate found him guilty. AAP · Dec 20, 2022
Sewell claims self-defence in Nine assault Right-wing leader Thomas Sewell says he was defending his friend when he punched a security guard after trying to speak to A Current Affair producers. AAP · Dec 14, 2022