Court told pair have ‘fanatical and tribal’ belief in white supremacy

TWO alleged members of banned neo-Nazi group National Action named their baby after Adolf Hitler, a court heard yesterday.

Claudia Patatas, 38, and Adam Thomas, 22, allegedly gave their son the middle name Adolf in tribute to the Nazi leader.

They also let a National Action member pose next to the newborn with a Swastika flag while making a “Hitler salute”, jurors were told.

The couple, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, are accused of having a “fanatical and tribal belief” in white supremacy.

National Action were founded in 2013 and deemed a terrorist organisation by then-home secretary Amber Rudd in 2016.

She described the group as a “racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic organisation” who promote a “vile ideology”.

Patatas, Thomas and fellow defendant Daniel Bogunovic, 27, are alleged to have been members before and after the ban.

Prosecutor Barnaby Jameson told jurors at Birmingham Crown Court BY MARTIN FRICKER the trio believed in “White Jihad”. He said: “This case is about a specific type of terror. It is a terror fuelled by hatred and division.

“It is a terror born out of fanatical and tribal belief in white supremacy, spread by a small cell of fanatics.

“It is a terror that regards anyone who falls outside a cult of violent white racial supremacy as ‘sub-human.’

“Those who fall into the ‘sub-human’ category are primarily blacks, Jews and Asians.

“Others include gays, communists and feminists. The cult had particular venom for female Labour MPs perceived as sympathetic to migrants.

“It is a terror that can be summarised in two words: ‘White Jihad’ – a white holy war.”

Jameson said Patatas and Thomas’s child was born in late 2017. He added: “One of his middle names was Adolf. Given the child was born almost a year after the ban, you may think the use of the name Adolf was of significance.”

The couple deny being members of a proscribed organisation.

The trial continues.