A neo-Nazi couple who posed in Ku Klux Klan robes and named their baby after Adolf Hitler have been jailed.
Adam Thomas and Claudia Patatas were found guilty of being members of the extreme right-wing organisation National Action, which was banned in 2016.
Thomas, 22, was today handed a six-and-a-half-year sentence at Birmingham Crown Court, while Patatas, 38, got a five-year jail term.
Adam Thomas and Claudia Patatas have been jailed for belonging to National Action
The couple adorned their home near Banbury, Oxfordshire, with Nazi and Ku Klux Klan flags
Judge Melbourne Inman QC, sentencing Patatas, said: ‘You were equally as extreme as Thomas both in your views and actions.
‘You acted together in all you thought, said and did, in the naming of your son and the disturbing photographs of your child, surrounded by symbols of Nazism and the Ku Klux Klan.’
The couple both wept and held hands in the dock as they were sentenced, while Thomas repeatedly shook his head.
Both had been involved in what the judge called the ‘desecration’ of civic memorials with National Action stickers, including one in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
The judge said: ‘You went there, defacing a memorial for those who died in the war protecting this country from the Nazis.’
He told Thomas: ‘Your home with Patatas was a veritable shrine to extreme racism.
‘You and she gave your child the middle name Adolf and you were photographed on a number of occasions with the child, with you in KKK garb.’
He told Thomas, the only defendant to give evidence at trial, that his views had been ‘so extreme’ his only recourse had been to claim to jurors he had ‘deliberately exaggerated, to shock’.
‘That was rightly rejected by the jury,’ the judge said.
Four other members of the neo-Nazi group were jailed including Daniel Bogunovic (left) and Joel Wilmore (right)
Darren Fletcher (left) and Nathan Pryke (right) were both handed five-year jail terms
Turning to Patatas, Judge Inman QC, said: ‘I have seen no shred of remorse.’
He told her: ‘On one occasion, you and Thomas said, if required, you each would be willing to murder a mixed-race child.
‘These are not idle words. The vile regime you and Thomas worship, and which you wish to impose on this country, did – and would do – exactly that.
Taking account of her one-year-old child, the judge said: ‘As an act of mercy, I reduce your sentence from six to five years.’
Also jailed were Daniel Bogunovic, 27, of Leicester, Darren Fletcher, 28, of Wolverhampton, Joel Wilmore, 24, of Stockport, and Nathan Pryke, 27, of Cambridge.
The court heard Fletcher recorded a sick video showing him teaching his toddler daughter how to do a Nazi salute.
He also pleaded guilty to five breaches of a criminal anti-social behaviour order and was sentenced to a total of five years in prison.
Thomas was pictured with his baby while wearing KKK robes. A banner also hung in their home
The court heard Bogunvic belonged to the ‘Inner’ group on the encrypted chat platform Telegram. He was jailed for six years and four months.
Wilmore was sentenced to five years and 10 months behind bars, while Pryke was handed five years and five months.
Judge Melbourne Inman QC said: ‘National Action is a terrorist organisation.
‘It’s aims and objectives are the overthrow of democracy in this country by serious violence and murder, and the imposition of a Nazi-style state which would eradicate whole sections of society by violence and murder.’
A jury at Birmingham Crown Court heard Thomas and Patatas gave their child the middle name ‘Adolf’ and had Swastika scatter cushions in their home.
Photographs recovered from their address also showed Thomas cradling his new-born son while wearing the hooded white robes of a Ku Klux Klansman.
Former Amazon security guard Thomas and Patatas, a wedding photographer originally from Portugal who also wanted to ‘bring back concentration camps’, were found guilty after a seven-week trial.
The white supremacist couple stockpiled an arsenal of weapons at their home and intended to wage a ‘holy war’ against black people, Jews, Asians and homosexuals, the court heard.
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.
Daniel Bogunovic, 27, of Leicester, a leading member in National Action’s Midlands chapter, was also convicted of membership after standing trial with Patatas and Thomas.
He was described in court on Friday as a ‘committed National Action leader, propagandist and strategist’, within the group’s Midlands cell.
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.
Fletcher, 28, of Wolverhampton, Wilmore, 24, of Stockport, Greater Manchester, and Pryke, 26, of March, Cambridge, all admitted membership of the banned group prior to the trial.