<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell has been committed to stand trial over an alleged attack on an Aboriginal protest site.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sewell, 33, beamed into Melbourne Magistrates Court via video link on Thursday morning after being charged over the Camp Sovereignty incident.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It's alleged Sewell led the group that stormed the site after an anti-immigration protest in the Melbourne city centre in August.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/tropical-cyclone-narelle-to-cross-western-australia-coast-massive-rain-dump-on-perth/42610621-ed26-47bb-a0d6-44c4c1e527e5"><strong><span>Cyclone expected to deliver massive 'rain dump', flash flooding to Perth</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The men, dressed in black, allegedly held down occupants of the Indigenous camp before kicking and punching them.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Three people were injured, with one woman requiring staples in her scalp to close a wound, the court was previously told.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sewell on Thursday formally pleaded not guilty to five charges relating to the incident, including violent disorder, affray and unlawful assault.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/neo-nazi-leader-thomas-sewell-to-stand-trial-over-alleged-camp-attack/71e24233-07c0-4a60-ae06-8c482429df4a" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He was originally charged with more than 20 offences but prosecutors withdrew most of the charges during Thursday's hearing.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Magistrate Donna Bakos found the evidence against Sewell was of a sufficient weight to support a conviction.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sewell only spoke briefly to confirm his plea of not guilty before he was committed to stand trial in the Victorian County Court.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Co-accused Nathan Bull appeared in court where he too pleaded not guilty to offences of violent disorder, affray, assault by kicking and failing to state his name or address.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Bakos also committed Bull to trial and extended the two men's bail to a County Court directions hearing date in April.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Fellow accused Timothy Holger Lutze, Augustus Coolie Hartigan and Ryan Williams will each contest their charges in a Magistrates Court committal hearing set down for May.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Blake Cathcart, who was also charged over the alleged campsite attack, has pleaded guilty to charges of violent disorder and assault with a weapon.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He will face a plea hearing in the County Court in August.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>There are a further seven co-accused who are either contesting the charges at a committal hearing or at trial in the County Court, while Jaeden Johnson pleaded guilty in February.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><strong><span>NEVER MISS A STORY:</span></strong></em><span> </span><em><span>Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.</span></em></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><ul><li><em><strong><span>Download the 9NEWS App here via</span></strong></em><span> </span><a href="https://apps.apple.com/au/app/9news/id1010533727" target="" title=""><em><strong><span>Apple</span></strong></em></a><span> </span><em><strong><span>and</span></strong></em><span> </span><a 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