A Lake Macquarie man who allegedly displayed offensive antisemitic symbols on his boat has been refused bail, after a prosecutor said he lacked insight into the seriousness of the charge he is facing.<\/p>\n
Warning: This story contains descriptions of Nazi symbols and antisemitic language<\/p>\n
Police were called to a home at Swansea, south of Newcastle, on December 6, allegedly finding symbols on a boat parked there.<\/p>\n
After further investigations, the home was searched on Tuesday and Jake John Dearie, 32, was charged\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mr Dearie stands accused of displaying Nazi symbols in a public place, offensive behaviour and breach of bail.<\/p>\n
He applied for release today in Newcastle Bail Court.<\/p>\n
The court heard in addition to Nazi symbols and an image of Adolf Hitler on the boat, a sticker with an antisemitic slur was allegedly displayed across the back.<\/p>\n
Magistrate Elizabeth Bushby told the court the boat allegedly had professional decals or stickers depicting reversed or partially-reversed swastikas, and a “Hitler-looking Nazi” shouting an offensive phrase.<\/p>\n
Commonwealth prosecutor Frank Farah told the court bail should not be granted.<\/p>\n
“It is a serious and blatant example of this offending,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It doesn’t appear to be any appreciation of how serious this offending is.”<\/p>\n
Mr Farah said the symbols were “blatant” and noted the timing of the alleged offences in the context of recent events.<\/p>\n
“I think he says in relation to the symbols that they’re controversial, I think it’s a bit more than controversial, especially in the circumstances of what’s happened in the last few days,” he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Dearie’s solicitor, Isabel Reed, said her client had “no prior offences of this kind” and had a back injury, leaving him in pain.<\/p>\n
He was already on bail for domestic violence and driving offences and today that bail was formally revoked.<\/p>\n
Magistrate Bushby said the material was “antisemitic symbolism” done by a professional.<\/p>\n
She said Mr Dearie had not proven that bail was justified.<\/p>\n
Offences relating to the display of prohibited symbols, including Nazi symbols, in a public place carry a maximum prison term of five years.<\/p>\n
The matter is due to return to court on January 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lake Macquarie man who allegedly displayed offensive antisemitic symbols on his boat has been refused bail, after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,23218,1108,9904,45233,44,1158],"class_list":["post-353677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charged","tag-court","tag-jewish","tag-nazi","tag-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}