Man with ‘shrine to Third Reich’ in bedroom and girlfriend avoid jail over Sydney university Nazi vandalism

Christopher Carrig, who was also sentenced for targeting a Jewish man at a bus stop, kept framed pictures of Nazi leaders in his bedroom

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A young couple have been spared jail for spraying hateful neo-Nazi graffiti across a major university campus despite a court being told they have links to a known white-supremacist group.

Christopher Carrig, 20, and his girlfriend, Taylor Bayly, 20, were sentenced on Tuesday over the vandalism spree at Macquarie University in the early hours of 25 January 2024.

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