A fanatical neo-Nazi couple who named their baby son in honour of Hitler are to be sentenced after being convicted of 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.
Last week, a court heard a prosecution claim Fletcher had taught his daughter to give a Nazi salute, and how he sent a message to Patatas saying “finally got her to do it”.
Photographs recovered from their address 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 “all non-whites intolerable”.
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.
The couple, of Waltham Gardens, Banbury, Oxfordshire, will be sentenced on Monday, concluding a two-day hearing which started on Friday.
Daniel Bogunovic, 27, of Crown Hills Rise, Leicester, a leading member in National Action’s midlands chapter, was also convicted of membership after standing trial with Patatas and Thomas.
The two other men, cyber security worker and the midlands’ National Action cell’s “banker” Joel Wilmore, 24, and van driver Nathan Pryke, 26, described as the group’s “security enforcer”, will also be sentenced.
Opening the case on Friday, Barnaby Jameson QC, prosecuting, said all six had been members post-ban and taken part in the organisation’s chat groups, which were staging posts for comments of “virulent racism, particularly from Thomas, Patatas and Fletcher”.
The six are all facing up to 10 years in jail.
