Two neo-Nazis should have been jailed for longer over a terrifying attack on innocent hikers because they did not have good prospects of rehabilitation, an appeal court has been told.
Sewell, 31, was jailed for 37 days and Hersant, 25, three days with a 200-hour community work order, after pleading guilty to an attack on three bushwalkers who filmed the pair’s group at the Cathedral Ranges National Park at Taggerty in May 2021. “This must’ve been terrifying offending for victims who were completely innocent group of people who had attended the same place and happened to be present when they were set upon by members of two groups – the European Australian Movement of which Mr Sewell was the leader – and the National Socialist Network of which Mr Hersant was the leader,” Kissane said.“A large group of males … wearing something of a uniform in the sense they had black T-shirts with a Celtic cross.