{"id":566099,"date":"2026-03-26T18:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566099\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:11:16","slug":"neo-nazi-thomas-sewell-to-stand-trial-after-allegedly-leading-attack-on-melbourne-indigenous-camp-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566099\/","title":{"rendered":"Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell to stand trial after allegedly leading attack on Melbourne Indigenous camp | Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Neo-Nazi figure Thomas Sewell has been committed to stand trial after allegedly leading an attack on an Indigenous protest site in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/melbourne\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Sewell, 33, appeared into Melbourne magistrates court via video link on Thursday morning after being charged over the Camp Sovereignty incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It is alleged Sewell led the group that stormed the site after an anti-immigration protest in the Melbourne city centre in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The men, dressed in black, allegedly held down occupants of the Indigenous camp before kicking and punching them.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-name=\"standard link button Primary\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&amp;CMP=emailbutton\" class=\"dcr-svb9qg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Three people were injured, with one woman requiring staples in her scalp to close a wound, the court previously heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Sewell on Thursday formally pleaded not guilty to five charges relating to the incident, including violent disorder, affray and unlawful assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He was originally charged with more than 20 offences but prosecutors withdrew most of the charges during Thursday\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Magistrate Donna Bakos found the evidence against Sewell was of a sufficient weight to support a conviction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Sewell spoke briefly to confirm his plea of not guilty, before he was committed to stand trial in the Victorian county court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Co-accused Nathan Bull also appeared in court, and pleaded not guilty to offences of violent disorder, affray, assault by kicking and failing to state his name or address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Bakos also committed Bull to trial and extended the two men\u2019s bail to a county court directions hearing date in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Three other men \u2013 Timothy Holger Lutze, Augustus Coolie Hartigan and Ryan Williams \u2013 will each contest their charges in a magistrates court committal hearing set down for May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Blake Cathcart, who was also charged over the alleged campsite attack, has pleaded guilty to charges of violent disorder and assault with a weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He is expected to face a plea hearing in the county court in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">There are a further seven co-accused who were either contesting the charges at a committal hearing or at trial in the county court, while Jaeden Johnson pleaded guilty in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neo-Nazi figure Thomas Sewell has been committed to stand trial after allegedly leading an attack on an 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