A Lake Macquarie man who allegedly displayed offensive antisemitic symbols on his boat has been refused bail after a prosecutor said he lacked insight into the seriousness of the charge he is facing.<\/p>\n
Warning: This story contains descriptions of Nazi symbols and antisemitic language<\/strong><\/p>\n Police were called to a home at Swansea, south of Newcastle, on December 6, allegedly finding symbols on a boat parked there.<\/p>\n After further investigations the home was searched on Tuesday and Jake John Dearie, 32, was charged\u00a0<\/p>\n Mr Dearie stands accused of displaying Nazi symbols in a public place, offensive behaviour and breach of bail.<\/p>\n He applied for release today in Newcastle Bail Court.<\/p>\n The court heard in addition to Nazi symbols and an image of Adolf Hitler on the boat, a sticker with an antisemitic slur was allegedly displayed across the back.<\/p>\n Magistrate Elizabeth Bushby told the court the boat allegedly had professional decals or stickers depicting reversed or partially-reversed swastikas, and a “Hitler-looking Nazi” shouting an offensive phrase.<\/p>\n Commonwealth prosecutor Frank Farah told the court bail should not be granted.<\/p>\n “It is a serious and blatant example of this offending,” he said.<\/p>\n “It doesn’t appear to be any appreciation of how serious this offending is.”<\/p>\n Mr Farah said the symbols were “blatant” and noted the timing of the alleged offences in the context of recent events.<\/p>\n “I think he says in relation to the symbols that they’re controversial. I think it’s a bit more than controversial, especially in the circumstances of what’s happened in the last few days,” he said.<\/p>\n Mr Dearie’s solicitor, Isabel Reed, said her client had “no prior offences of this kind” and had a back injury, leaving him in pain.<\/p>\n He was already on bail for domestic violence and driving offences, and today that bail was formally revoked.<\/p>\n Magistrate Bushby said the material was “antisemitic symbolism” done by a professional.<\/p>\n She said Mr Dearie had not proven that bail was justified.<\/p>\n Offences relating to the display of prohibited symbols, including Nazi symbols, in a public place carry a maximum prison term of five years.<\/p>\n The matter is due to return to court on January 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lake Macquarie man who allegedly displayed offensive antisemitic symbols on his boat has been refused bail after…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":453100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,207872,42480,281,31034,207871,50,7207],"class_list":{"0":"post-453099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-bail-revoked","10":"tag-charged","11":"tag-court","12":"tag-jewish","13":"tag-nazi-symbols","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115734661262701403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}