Sydney neo-Nazi had a ‘shrine to the Third Reich’ in his room: prosecutor

A neo Nazi was seen smiling while leaving a Sydney courtroom after he sentenced to a two-year intensive correction order for intimidating a Jewish man and spray painting anti-Semitic symbols at a university.

A neo-Nazi repping white supremacist tattoos on the back of his head had what a prosecutor described to a court as a “shrine to the Third Reich” in his room.

Christopher Carrig, 20, smiled and laughed as he walked out of Burwood Local Court on Tuesday after avoiding full-time jail for intimidating a Jewish man, calling him a “Goy” and a “f**got”.

Months earlier, he went on a spray-painting rampage with his partner Taylor Bayly, vandalising Macquarie University with neo-Nazi symbols.

Carrig was charged with destroy or damage property in company, face blackened or disguised with intent to commit an indictable offence, intimidation and unlawful entry on inclosed lands.

Bayly was charged with destroy or damage property in company, face blackened or disguised with intent to commit an indictable offence and possessing graffiti implement.

Agreed facts revealed just after midnight on February 25 the pair, along with three unidentified people, had their lower half of their faces covered.

Taylor Bayly was sentenced to a 15 month community correction order for spray-painting Nazi symbols at Macquarie University.

The group tagged 24 locations within the university, including the swastika, four inverted hammers, the NSN acronym, statements such as “Nazi Rule”, “F**K 167”, “F**K Antifa Scum”, and “Hail Hitler”.

In a separate incident, Carrig was outside the Macquarie Centre when he approached and filmed Jewish man Dov Grauman who was sitting on a bench and wearing a Kipper.

Taylor Bayly leaving Burwood Local Court on Tuesday, December 3.

Carrig said “I found a Jew wearing TNs” before later calling him a “Goy” and a “f**got” before demanding his TNs and attempting to “coax him away ... to the bush ... for a chat”.

Mr Grauman feared he was going to be assaulted or stabbed for being Jewish.

Carrig later said the “Jews controlled the media” and it was “pretty low for a Jew to be waiting for a bus”.

“Why don’t you just call Uncle Goldstein and ask him to bring you a BMW,” Carrig told Mr Grauman according to the agreed facts.

Mr Grauman refused to kiss Carrig’s shoes and apologise for wasting his time.

Carrig later uploaded an edited version of the video to Telegram.

Police identified an X, formerly Twitter, handle used by Carrig which included a past derogatory Nazi caricature of a Jewish male.

Christopher Carrig was sentenced to a two-year intensive correction order for intimidating a Jewish man and spray-painting Nazi symbols at Macquarie University.

A Nazi-symbol tattooed under the ear of Christopher Carrig.

A search warrant at Carrig’s home in July saw police find several rooms in his house with white supremacy stickers and flags and his door having an “oversized swastika” on the bottom half and “14” on the upper half.

Agreed facts revealed Carrig’s room was “wall to wall” covered with black and white photographs of German soldiers from WWII, some of whom were committing atrocities.

His roof was covered in several Nazi flags and portraits of Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich were displayed on a shelving unit.

Christopher Carrig seen leaving court on an earlier appearance.

Carrig’s lawyer Rylie Hahn-Hamilton acknowledged her client’s offending was a community concern and “should not be tolerated”.

She later admitted some of the offences crossed the threshold for imprisonment, however, appealed for a community-based order.

Ms Hahn-Hamilton concluded that her client had made positive steps in the right direction, including addressing his mental health and engaging with Mission Australia.

However, the prosecutor submitted that Carrig “clearly has an ideology”, he remained active with the National Socialist Network and “his room was more or less a shrine to the Third Reich”.

The court heard Carrig had received Nazi paraphernalia from his late mother who was found inside a property on Menzies Rd, Marsfield in July.

He was ultimately sentenced to a two-year intensive correction order while he was also ordered to compensate Macquarie University with $1222.50.

Bayly was sentenced to a 15 month community correction order and also ordered to compensate the university with the same amount.

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