Neo-nazis with son called Adolf guilty of joining terror group

A fanatical neo-nazi couple who named their baby son after Hitler have been convicted of membership of a terrorist group.

Adam Thomas, 22, and Claudia Patatas, 38, were found guilty yesterday of being members of the extreme right-wing organisation National Action, which was banned in 2016.

A jury at Birmingham Crown Court was told the couple had given their child the middle name “Adolf ”, which Thomas said was in “admiration” of Hitler, and had Swastika scatter cushions in their home.

Photographs recovered from their home also showed Thomas cradling his new-born son while wearing the hooded white robes of a Ku Klux Klansman.

In conversation with another National Action 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”.

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.

A third defendant - a leading member in National Action’s Midlands chapter, Daniel Bogunovic, 27, was also convicted of membership.

Jurors heard he already had a conviction from earlier this year for stirring up racial hatred after being part of a group who plastered a Birmingham university with offensive National Action stickers.

Thomas, a twice-failed Army applicant, was also convicted on a majority verdict of having a terrorist manual, namely the Anarchist’s Cookbook, which jurors heard contained instructions on making “viable” bombs.

Following the convictions, West Midlands Police chief superintendent Matt Ward said that “National Action, the Midlands chapter... is no more”.

0 Adam Thomas and Claudia Patatas with their baby Adolf. The couple were members of the right-wing extreme group National Action