A Queensland neo-Nazi caught with an Adolf Hitler face mask and a copy of the Mein Kampf has been jailed for brutalising his housemate in a five-hour ordeal over a missing swastika T-shirt.
The housemate was threatened with a bat and beaten in an inner-city East Brisbane home in May 2019.
Both have been jailed for at least 18 months.
On the day of the assault, Halcrow accused his housemate of stealing the anti-Semitic T-shirt which depicted a Nazi swastika, prosecutor Michael Gawrych said.
The court heard the pair stole the housemate’s possessions stored in a cupboard and threw them in a bin before entering the bedroom.
The terrified housemate cowered inside when Halcrow and Menzies stormed the room, screaming: ‘Where is the shirt?”
They kicked in his bedroom door and beat him as they tried to find the offensive shirt.
At the height of the brutal assault, Menzies thrust his thumb into a wound on the victim, ripping open the stitches and causing “immense pain”, the court was told.
The victim managed to call the police, but when officers arrived, Menzies warned him to stay hidden, or he would “crack his skull open”.
Read the article by Robyn Wuth in The Canberra Times.