Simon Hickey loses parole application in Supreme Court
An electrician known as the Nazi Sparky has made a bid for freedom but the State Parole Authority fears he might “engage in violent extremism”.
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An electrician has lost his fight for freedom after the Supreme Court determined the State Parole Authority was within its rights in its concerns he might “engage in violent extremism”.
Simon Hickey was sentenced to an 18-month jail term for using a prohibited weapon without a permit in Lismore District Court in January 2022.
The Brisbane man was set for parole the following month on February 12, but the State Parole Authority revoked the parole order the day before because he was known to be a “terrorism-related offender” and “may engage in violent extremism”.
Hickey - who became known as the Nazi Sparky in 2017, after his business sponsored neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer - represented himself in the Supreme Court of NSW before Justice Peter Garling, and presented four submissions.
These submissions arose from arguments made by the Commissioner of Corrective Services to the State Parole Authority, all asserting that material relied upon in the decision to revoke his parole were false or misleading.
The first instance was that posts to a site called ‘Stormfront.org’, an online white nationalist forum, could not have been made by Hickey, from Stretton, because they were found on a public forum under a pseudonym, but tendered “no evidence to demonstrate the falsity he alleged”.
The second submission, similarly, was that photos of the Christchurch terrorist posted on Facebook could not have been concluded to be from him or of his work.
The third submission was that the material provided by the State Parole Authority regarding the neo-Nazi website ‘Daily Stormer’ could not establish that the Daily Stormer website had any connection to violent extremism.
Hickey’s final submission was that the material provided to the authority that he had created entitled ‘How the Left Destroyed Australia’ should not be taken into account because it was “completely political”.
Justice Garling, in his reasons, noted that “the plaintiff has not established any evidence that the information before the SPA was false, misleading or irrelevant.
“Rather, the plaintiff attacks submissions made by the Commissioner, or conclusions drawn, apparently, by the SPA from that material.”
Justice Garling dismissed Hickey’s application to set aside the decision made to revoke his parole.
His current term of imprisonment is due to end in November 2022.
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