A Victorian magistrate has found Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell not guilty of offensive behaviour after the 32-year-old led a white supremacist rally through Ballarat in 2023.

Mr Sewell has been fighting a single charge in the Ballarat Magistrate's court during a multi-day hearing.

Mr Sewell was charged after a rally in Ballarat on December 3 2023.

In videos shown to the court, Mr Sewell was heard launching into a white supremacist and inflammatory monologue before leading roughly 30 men in black in a march through the city streets.

The National Socialist Network member, who represented himself in court, has not denied the event took place, or that he led it, but said that the conduct was political and not offensive.

Mr Sewell was the only member of the group of 30 men who did not wear

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