Couple Named Their Baby ‘Adolf Hitler’, Goes to Jail

A British court has recently sentenced a neo-Nazi couple who named their baby son after Adolf Hitler. The couple was sent to prison as they also belong to a group, which is banned under anti-terror laws of the country. 23-year-old Adam Thomas was sentenced to six and a half years in prison and his Portuguese partner 38-year-old Claudia Patatas to five years in prison.

The couple was among the six other people sentenced for membership of National Action, which in 2016 became the first right-wing group to be banned under anti-terror laws.

In his sentencing by judge Melbourne Inman at Birmingham Crown Court said the group had horrific goals. Inman also said, National Action wanted “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 such violence and mass-murder”.

The judge also said the couple gave their child the name “Adolf, had a long history of violent racist beliefs. You acted together in all you thought, said and did, in the naming of your son and the disturbing photographs of your child by symbols of Nazism and the Ku Klux Klan”.

A police search of the home, the couple shared found uncovered machetes, knives and crossbows, one kept just a few feet from the baby. Extremist themed documents and details, which include pendants, flags and clothing, emblazoned with symbols of the Nazi era and National Action were also recovered. Among the items recovered there was a swastika-shaped pastry cutter and some swastika scatter cushions.

The photographs recovered from their house showed Thomas cradling his newborn son while wearing the Ku Klux Klan white robe. The couple’s close friend, Darren Fletcher, who is also a member of the banned group National Action, was also jailed for five years for the same crime. 28-year-old Fletcher had taught his daughter to give a Nazi salute.

After the sentence, the investigative officer of West Midlands Police, said, “These sentences are the culmination of two years of painstaking work in the West Midlands and across the country to recognise and understand the threat of National Action. They had researched how to make explosives, they had gathered weapons and they had a clear structure to radicalize others. Unchecked they would have inspired violence and spread hatred and fear across the West Midlands”.