Neo-Nazi ‘taught toddler the Hitler salute’
A MEMBER of a banned FarRight terrorist group trained his toddler daughter to perform a Nazi salute to a video camera, a court heard yesterday.
Darren Fletcher, 28, then told another member he had “finally got her to do it” .
He is set to be jailed after pleading guilty to membership of neo-Nazi group National Action.
Five others are also to be sentenced after they were convicted or admitted being members of the organisation.
They each face jail terms of up to 10 years.
“Fanatical” neo-Nazi couple Adam Thomas, 22, and Claudia Patatas, 38, had named their baby Adolf in “admiration” of Hitler, the trial heard at Birmingham Crown Court.
Searches by counter-terrorism police of their home in Banbury, Oxfordshire, also discovered Swastika scatter cushions and photos recovered from electronic devices showed Thomas cradling his newborn son while wearing the hooded Ku Klux Klan white robes.
In conversation with another member, Patatas said “all Jews must be put to death”, while Thomas had once told his partner he “found that all non-whites are intolerable”.
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Former Amazon security guard Thomas and Patatas, a wedding photographer originally from Portugal who also wanted to “bring back concentration camps”, were found guilty after a seven-week trial.
Thomas, a twice-failed Army applicant, was also convicted on a majority verdict of having a terrorist manual, The Anarchist Cookbook, which contained instructions on making bombs.
Daniel Bogunovic, 27, of Leicester, who was described as a “committed National Action leader, propagandist and strategist”, will also be sentenced.
Cyber security worker Joel Wilmore, 24, of March, Cambridgeshire, was described as “banker” for the Midlands’ National Action cell.
Van driver Nathan Pryke, 26, of Stockport, Greater Manchester, was known as the group’s “security enforcer”.
Fletcher, of Wolverhampton, had a previous conviction for stirring up racial hatred after being filmed hanging a life-size golliwog doll on stage at an extreme Right-wing music event in 2013. The sentencing hearing continues.