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.
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.
"Good luck with the future, gentleman," County Court Judge Kellie Blair said to the pair, as she stepped off the bench at the end of hearing. Sewell and Hersant, who pledge allegiance to Adolf Hitler, are senior figures in the Australian far-right movement.On Friday, the court heard the pair were with about 25 other men from Nationalist Socialist Network and the European Australian Movement in the Cathedral Ranges State Park on May 8, 2021.
Hersant, 24, was sentenced to three days' jail — the same amount of time he had already spent in custody.
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