Patriotic Alternative führer Mark Collett is today raising funds for a violent Australian nazi. On his social media accounts, Collett has published a financial appeal for Thomas Sewell, leader of the National Socialist Network, who is charged with leading a mob of fellow nazis in a violent attack on an indigenous people’s camp in Melbourne.
Sewell was born in New Zealand but moved to Australia as a child. One of his closest political allies is Blair Cottrell, a fellow nazi who was mysteriously allowed into the UK to speak at a Patriotic Alternative conference last year.
Terror attack
Cottrell and Sewell co-founded the United Patriots Front in 2015 and a “fitness group” called the Lads Society in 2017.
Among those Sewell invited to join the Lads Society was Brenton Tarrant, who two years later carried out a terrorist attack on a mosque and an Islamic centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 51 people.
Last weekend Sewell led a mob of National Socialist Network members who charged into Camp Sovereignty, a protest camp in Melbourne that calls for the return of land to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Armed with pipes and large tree branches, Sewell and his nazis viciously assaulted several people including women and children.
Risk of serious injury
Today prosecutors in Melbourne opposed bail, warning that if left at liberty Sewell would continue to commit violent racist crimes and “there is a real risk of serious injury and death”.
In response, Cottrell and Collett have begun raising funds online for their nazi terrorist comrade.
Cottrell wrote: “Tom is the sort of guy who will fight to the death for his friends, without any hesitation. If you were going to war, you’d be blessed to have Tom on your side.”
Serious questions
The Home Office now need to be asking serious questions. Why was Blair Cottrell allowed into the UK to network with fellow nazis?
And why is Patriotic Alternative still tolerated as a legal organisation when it has a long record of close association with terrorists?
