A former Adelaide private schoolboy has become one of the most prominent figures in Britain’s biggest far-right extremist organisations, which has been accused of spreading neo-Nazi views.
Alek James Yerbury, 27, who attended Trinity College, Gawler, is considered a rising star of Patriotic Alternative, which has been accused of being a white supremacist organisation and whose leaders include some people who openly support Adolf Hitler.
Mr Yerbury, who said he finished Year 12 at the Anglican college, north of Adelaide, in 2012, sparked angry scenes in Hull, in Britain’s northeast, last weekend, after addressing a far-right rally in attire similar to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, the effect heightened by his short moustache and haircut.
In a November 2021 report, the Hope Not Hate British charity described the group as “the largest and most active fascist movement” in the country with leaders having links to Nazi groups that “enabled new and potentially dangerous networks to flourish”.
The UK protest, during which Mr Yerbury wore a buckled full-length brown trench coat, railed against housing of “illegal migrants up and down the country”.
Standing in front of placards that claimed “stop the invasion” and “you pay, migrants stay”, he also criticised “the establishment” and a country “run by parasites”.
His social media shows similar public speeches across Britain, including one in Leeds, Yorkshire, 315km north of London, in December last year. Another speech was on the “struggle against Marxism”.
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