A reformed neo-Nazi whose crimes were dramatised in the hit movie Romper Stomper has revealed he is “disgusted” by his past actions, after coming to his senses in prison.
A reformed neo-Nazi whose crimes were dramatised in the Russell Crowe movie Romper Stomper has warned the young men joining the latest crop of neo-Nazi groups that they are wasting their lives following the “frauds” leading the gangs.
Andrew Martin Kirby, 49, told the Herald Sun he was now deeply ashamed of his involvement in two notorious Melbourne skinhead gangs, The Guard and Brothers in Arms in the late ’80s and ’90s.
Kirby will later this month be released from parole in Queensland, three years after he walked from prison.
“I’ll be off an order for the first time since 1986; this will be the first time I am a free man,” he said from his home in Gympie.
“I’m ashamed of myself, ashamed and disgusted, and I have to live with the guilt and remorse about who I was,” he said.
Kirby said he was sickened to see another wave of neo-Nazis active in Melbourne, and said the leaders were preying on impressionable young followers.
This week, a young mum and her toddler were accosted by a man making a “heil Hitler” salute in Caulfield, prompting Jewish leaders to warn some members of the community felt increasingly under siege from the threat of extremist groups.
Read the article by Craig Dunlop in the Herald Sun.