Thomas Sewell and Jacob Hersant avoid further jail time after they were convicted of a 2021 attack on hikers at a Victorian state park. Prosecutors appealed their sentence claiming it was 'inadequate', but today lost.
The Court of Appeal has dismissed claims the sentence imposed on neo-Nazis Thomas Sewell and Jacob Hersant was "manifestly inadequate".
Sewell had already spent 210 days behind bars as he waited for a violent disorder charge and an unrelated assault charge to be brought before the Victorian courts. Hersant was in custody for three days. "Not only did he serve a period of six months, but he also served that time in extremely harsh conditions," Justices Emerton, Maree Kennedy and Christopher Boyce wrote.
Despite that, the judges said there was also room for discretion in Hersant's case, and ruled it would be "counter-productive" for him to be sent back to jail. "It is simply intolerable in an open, civil society like ours that a group such as the EAM/NSN groups might seek to terrorise innocent members of the community by means of gratuitous, cowardly and entirely unprovoked pack-violence as occurred in this case," the judges wrote.
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