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.

  •  mosiacmango   ( @mosiacmango@lemm.ee ) 
    16•1 year ago

    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.