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		</div><p>An alleged neo-Nazi terrorist couple accused of being members of a banned group kept an “extensive” cache of serrated machetes, crossbows and other weaponry at home, a court has heard.</p>
<p>Adam Thomas, 22, and his partner, Claudia Patatas, 38, also had a greetings card on the sideboard of their living room which featured Ku Klux Klan (KKK) figures and read <i>“May all your Christmases be white”</i>.</p>
<p>In a kitchen drawer, police officers found a pastry-cutter shaped like a Swastika and a photograph showing the couple’s infant son in his crib, next to a cushion bearing the Nazi party symbol.</p>
<p>Birmingham Crown Court has already heard that the couple gave their child the middle name Adolf, which the prosecution alleged was in honour of infamous Nazi leader Hitler.</p>
<p>Thomas and Patatas, both of Waltham Gardens, Banbury, Oxfordshire, are on trial accused of being members of the extremist racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic group National Action, which was banned in December 2016.</p>
<p>Co-defendant Daniel Bogunovic, 27, of Crown Hills Rise, Leicester, is also in the dock facing the same membership charge.</p>
<p>Thomas is facing a separate charge of having a terrorist document, The Anarchist Cookbook, which contained bomb-making instructions.</p>
<p>On Thursday, jurors heard that police searches of the couple’s home in January 2018 found two machetes, one with a serrated 18in (46cm) blade, in the first-floor bedroom where their baby son slept.</p>
<p>Underneath the couple’s bed was an axe found in a sheath, Barnaby Jameson QC, prosecuting, added.</p>
<p>Another photo was alleged to show Thomas in camouflage gear and a mask, brandishing the machete at home for the camera.</p>
<p>The court heard details of a makeshift target range in the back garden where old clothing was found with holes in, which the Crown have said match those made by crossbow bolts.</p>
<p>One of two crossbows discovered at the address was also found under the couple’s bed, just a few feet from the baby’s crib.</p>
<p>A Nazi dagger bearing the Swastika on its hilt was also removed from the address, which also contained pendants, flags and clothing emblazoned with the symbols of the Nazi-era SS as well as National Action.</p>
<p>Mr Jameson said: <i>“Why, members of the jury, was there such an extensive degree of weaponry in this particular house and in this case the parental bedroom?</p>
<p>“Why is it these clothes appear to be covered in holes made by crossbow bolts?</p>
<p>“Why was it necessary for anybody in the garden of the address to be firing a crossbow and crossbow bolts into the clothes you’ve seen?”</i></p>
<p>The search also uncovered a digital copy of The Anarchist Cookbook, version 2000, on a laptop, which contained chapters headed “Making plastic explosive”, “Letter bombs”, and <i>“Molotov cocktails”</i>, among others, the jury heard.</p>
<p>There were also press cuttings in the lounge relating to far-right mass-murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, jurors were shown an alleged photo of Thomas cradling his newborn baby, wearing the hooded white robes of the Ku Klux Klan.</p>
<p>At Bogunovic’s address, police found a large number of stickers and images relating to National Action, contact details for other group members and, in his bedroom ,a Nazi flag.</p>
<p>Following the group’s ban, the prosecution alleged National Action tried to “shed one skin for another” in order to evade the law and that the three defendants, were part of a successor organisation called the TripleK Mafia.</p>
<p>The Crown’s case is that the group was still National Action in all but name, but merely went through a “re-branding” exercise to evade scrutiny by the authorities.</p>
<p>All three defendants deny wrongdoing and the trial, set to last four weeks, continues.</p>
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