The threats from a white supremacist troll were specific, violent and recorded on a phone's message bank. But police still did not lay charges.
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The man who left the phone threats was Nathan Sykes, a lieutenant of Australia’s most prominent white supremacist, Jim Saleam. Mr Saleam founded the right-wing group National Action, and was previously jailed for property offences, fraud and planning the attempted murder of anti-Apartheid activist and African National Congress diplomat Eddie Funde.
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