Neo-Nazis who named baby after Hitler are both jailed

A FANATICAL neo-Nazi couple who named their baby son in honour of Hitler have been jailed for membership of a terrorist group.

Adam Thomas, 22, and Claudia Patatas, 38, were found guilty after a trial of being members of the extreme right-wing organisation National Action, which was banned in 2016 after endorsing the murder of Batley & Spen MP Jo Cox.

Thomas was jailed for six years and six months while Patatas was sentenced to five years.

A sentencing judge told them they both had “a long history of violent, racist beliefs”.

At trial, the jury heard Thomas and Patatas gave their child the middle name Adolf, which Thomas said was in “admiration” of Hitler, and they had Swastika scatter cushions in their home.

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

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 “all nonwhites 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.

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.

Judge Melbourne Inman QC, jailing the couple at Birmingham Crown Court, told Patatas: “You were equally as extreme as Thomas both in your views and actions.

“You acted together in all you thought, said and did.”

The couple, of Waltham Gardens, Banbury, Oxfordshire, wept and held hands ias they were sentenced.