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Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell given community work order for intimidating police officers
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Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell given community work order for intimidating police officers

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A Neo-Nazi leader has received a community of work for intimidating a police officer and his wife.
Thomas Sewell, 32, was found guilty on Friday to three accusations of intimidation of a law enforcement officer and his wife, about targeted threats to expose his personal information.

Sewell threatened a police officer and his wife on podcasts in October and November last year, including threats to release personal information and wedding photos.

“I am training how to do him dox, because those doxing laws are not yet in force,” he said a podcast.
“Just like his wedding photos, we downloaded it all, he’s finished *** ing idiot.”
The police officer gave evidence about feeling “very anxious” about the safety of him and his family.
The officer’s wife said that she felt “really intimidated and threatened” in a declaration to the court.
“I felt we were in danger,” she said.

Sewell claimed that he kept the police for accountability and used his implicit “freedom of communication” about public affairs when he spoke about the officer and his family.

But Magistraat Michelle Hodgson rejected these arguments and discovered that he had focused on the officer’s private life.
The magistrate discovered that he “had searched to arm personal information, personal insult and public exposure to instiles” in the officer and his wife.
His insult was “objectively very serious,” she said when she concluded the claim of Sewell that it was at the bottom.

“Police officers are front line groups of the law, if they are intimidated to perform their duties – due to threats of exposure, humiliation or retribution – the legal system itself is undermined,” she said the court.

“A threat to Dox can expose family, friends and living at home, it uses technology to make private information available to a potentially hostile audience.
“Once online, it is virtually impossible to comprehend.”
She said that the maximum term of 10 years in prison for the offensive, or two years if heard in the court, the offensive “a high degree of damage and trauma” reflected.
Hodgson, however, decided not to disadvantage any prison.

She ordered that he completed 200 hours of community work for 18 months, which will start as soon as he has been released for the individual offensive.

Sewell had self -represented in a disputed hearing about the charges, which ran more than a week.
On day two of the hearing, September 2, he was arrested outside the court for an alleged attack on an indigenous protest location, known as Camp sovereignty, and taken in custody.

Hodgson found him guilty earlier on Friday against intimation against a police officer and his wife, and also guilty of two counts from violating personal safety assignments.

He was not found guilty of two other violations of those orders and not to comply with a police direction to transfer passwords to his devices.
After the hearing broke for lunch, the police saw a member of Sewell’s Neo-Nazi group arrest.
Victoria Police later confirmed that a 20-year-old JA-Man outside the field at William Street was arrested about Sewell and the alleged attack of his group on camp sovereignty on 31 August.

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