Right-wing leader Thomas Sewell told a security guard to “dance monkey” before he allegedly king-hit the man outside Nine Network’s building.
Sewell, 29, leader of the European Australian Movement, faced Melbourne Magistrates Court on Tuesday after pleading not guilty to assault, affray and recklessly causing serious injury over the March 2021 incident.
He is accused of punching a security guard in the head several times, outside Nine Network’s headquarters in Melbourne.
He visited the office on March 1 with a cameraman and demanded to speak to someone from A Current Affair, just hours before it was due to air a segment about neo-Nazi groups featuring Sewell.
Sewell claimed ACA was showing his group to be a terrorist organisation and said the program had not contacted him for comment.
A video of Sewell speaking to camera inside the building was shown to court, where he said ACA staff were “cowards” for refusing to meet him.
The security guard then walks over and puts his hand on the camera lens, instructing the two men to stop filming and leave.
The guard, who appeared as a witness on Tuesday, told the court he showed Sewell and the cameraman an area outside where they were permitted to film, but they instead filmed near the door.
Read the article by Emily Woods in The Canberra Times.