Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell found guilty of intimidating police officer by threatening to dox him | Victoria

A neo-nazi leader is sentenced to imprisonment after being found guilty of scaring the police by throwing insults and threatening to publicly explain personal information about an officer and his wife.

32 -year -old Thomas Sewell represented himself at a controversial hearing against the charges at the Melbourne Magistrate Criminal Court, which lasted more than a week.

He was arrested outside the court on a separate issue allegedly allegedly claiming to attack a local site and was detained on 2 September.

He suggested a hearing and Sewell continued to represent himself after the glass on the dock of the court, surrounded by security guards.

Sewell is accused of threatening a police officer and his wife, including the threats of publishing personal information and wedding photographs in October and November last year, with “Dox de on Podcasts.

“I will try how to do it because these Doxing laws have not yet come into force,” one Podcast said. “Like wedding photos, we downloaded them all, that damn fool.”

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The police officer gave the hearing evidence of feeling “very anxious” about the safety of himself and his family.

“I didn’t know what to do with this information,” he said to the court.

Officer’s wife did not personally evidence for the hearing, but the testimony was given to the court.

“I felt really scared and threatened, I felt we were in danger,” he said.

Sewell claimed that he had hired and used the police to take into account the “freedom of communication” implied about public affairs while talking about his civil servant and his family.

However, Michelle Hodgson, the magistrate, found Sewell’s intimidation guilty on Friday and detected that he had targeted the private life of the officer and rejected his arguments.

“There were threats of doxing, he thought clearly the circulation of this material,” he said to the court.

“Personal hostility and insult, so called as a damn filth, including his wife and family – there is evidence that goes far beyond political accountability.”

The authority said that Sewell’s comments did not have legitimate participation in political debate or communication with public relations and police accountability.

“Mr. Sewell said,… He tried to armed personal information, to be exposed to personal insult and the fear of the public, and tried to use the conversation as a intimidation rather than political communication,” he said.

Hodgson found him guilty of three intimidation that could be sentenced to a police officer and his wife. In addition, in November 2024, he decided that he was guilty of personal security orders twice, and he was not guilty of two other crimes in which these orders were contrary.

The magistrate found that Sewell had not enough evidence to prove that Sewell had not complied with the police direction to deliver the passwords to his devices and that he did not find him guilty of this crime.

Friday will face a defense hearing in the afternoon.

A series of sewell supporters, including Jacob Hersant, joined the court or followed online on Friday.

After the decision was broken at lunch, after 13:00, the police arrested another member of Sewell’s Neo-Nazi group outside the court.