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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    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

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      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.

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    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?

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      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 decision outcome 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.

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        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.

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          Am thinking about not having their kids turn out bad. Although maybe having that kind of father around is not a good influence anyhow.

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          I guess everyone is misinterpreting judges words. They was judged for assault, not for been Neo Nazis. I’m not sure what kind of sense you can get for thing like this, but 3 days is definitely a joke.