British baby 'named after ADOLF HITLER by parents who were members of banned neo-Nazi group National Action'

Two alleged members of the banned neo-Nazi group National Action named their baby after Adolf Hitler, a court has heard.

Claudia Patatas, 38, and Adam Thomas, 22, gave their son the middle name ‘Adolf’ in tribute to the Nazi leader, it is claimed.

They allowed a National Action member to pose next to the newborn tot holding a Swastika flag and making a “Hitler salute”, jurors were told.

The couple, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, are accused of having a “fanatical and tribal belief” in white supremacy.

National Action was founded in 2013 and deemed a terrorist organisation by then-Home Secretary Amber Rudd in 2016.

Claudia Patatas, 38, pictured outside court (Image: SWNS.com)

She describ British baby ‘named after ADOLF HITLER by parents who were members of banned neo-Nazi group National Action’ ed it as a “racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic organisation” which promotes a “vile ideology”.

Patatas, Thomas and fellow defendant Daniel Bogunovic, 27, are alleged to have been members before and after its ban.

Prosecutor Barnaby Jameson told jurors at Birmingham crown court the trio believed in “White Jihad”.

He said: “This case is about a specific type of terror. It is a terror fuelled by hatred and division.

“It is a terror born out of fanatical and tribal belief in white supremacy,
spread by a small cell of fanatics.

“It is a terror that regards anyone who falls outside a cult of violent white racial supremacy as ‘sub-human.’

“Those that fall into the ‘sub-human’ category are primarily blacks, Jews and Asians.

“Others include gays, communists and feminists. The cult had particular venom for female Labour MPs perceived as sympathetic to migrants.

A court heard how the pair were obsessed with white supremacy (Image: SWNS.com)

“It is a terror that can be summarised in two words: ‘White Jihad’ – a white holy war.

“The world into which this case will take you is a world in which any right-thinking person would wish did not exist.

“It is a world beyond casual racist abuse. It is a world of banner-carrying para-militaries aping Hitler’s SS.

“It is a world of Swastikas and the burning crosses of the Ku Klux Klan. It is the world a group called ‘Nation Action’.

“It is the world of a group so extreme and violent the government banned it.”

Mr Jameson said Patatas and Thomas’s son was born in late 2017 – nearly a year after National Action was banned.

He told the jury: “The couple have a small male child. One of his middle names was ‘Adolf.’

“Given the child was born almost a year after the ban, you may think the use of the name ‘Adolf’, even as a middle name, was of significance.”

Jurors were told about a photo of convicted National Action member Darren Fletcher posing with Patatas’s baby while making a Nazi salute.

Mr Jameson said: “Fletcher was a vehement Nazi.

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“In 2014 he went on stage at an extreme right event dressed in KKK robes hanging a golliwog from a noose.

“He placed the footage on YouTube. That stunt earned him a conviction for stirring up racial hatred.

“He was a close friend of Thomas and Patatas.

“The case ultimately is about a group that, in a convicted member’s own words, shed one skin for another.

“When National Action was banned it simply rebranded and continued in the shadows. It put on disguise after disguise.

“It is a group of vehement Neo-Nazis, glorifying Hitler and the Third Reich.

“Openly and aggressively Nazi, it is anti-black, anti-Semitic, anti-Islamic and anti-gay.

“National Action is the only fascist group to be banned since World War II.”

The court heard how the defendants were in close contact with National Action members Alexander Deakin, 23, and Mikko Vehvilainen, 33.

They were also allegedly associated with “zealot” Jack Coulson, 19, who branded the killer of Labour MP Jo Cox “f ** legend”.

He wrote on Facebook about Thomas Mair: “He’s a hero. We need more people like him to butcher the race traitors.”

Patatas and Thomas were arrested at their home under terrorism legislation in January.

The couple and Bogunovic, from Leicester, deny being members of a proscribed organisation.

Thomas also faces a charge relating to possessing items which could be used to commit a terrorist act.

Jurors were told Bogunovic was convicted of stirring up racial hatred after defacing a university with National Action stickers.

The trial continues.

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