Court of Appeal Upholds Sentence for Neo-Nazis in Victorian Hiker Attack
Melbourne, Victoria – Two neo-Nazis, Thomas Sewell and Jacob Hersant, avoided further jail time after the Court of Appeal dismissed claims that their sentence for a 2021 attack on hikers in a Victorian state park was “manifestly inadequate”. Sewell had already spent 210 days behind bars awaiting charges, while Hersant spent three days in custody. The attack, which involved the pair joining a large group of armed far-right nationalists to assault hikers and force them …