A man accused of being a “fanatical” neo-Nazi terrorist allegedly posed for a photo with his newborn baby while wearing the hooded white robes of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a court has heard.

Adam Thomas, 22, and his partner Claudia Patatas, 38, gave their child the middle name Adolf, which the prosecution has alleged was in honour of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court were for the first time on Monday shown the image, along with another photo showing Thomas holding a swastika flag next to a smiling Patatas, who is holding their baby in the couple’s lounge.

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Jurors also saw an image showing alleged National Action members Adam Thomas and his partner Claudia Patatas with their new born baby, posing with a Swastika flag at their home. (West Midlands Police/PA)

Another image, from what barrister Barnaby Jameson QC called the “Thomas-Patatas family album”, allegedly showed Thomas at home in a KKK robe brandishing a machete in front of a Confederate American flag.

Thomas and Patatas, of Waltham Gardens, Banbury, Oxfordshire, are on trial accused of being members of the far-right terrorist group National Action, which was banned in December 2016.

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A photo of Thomas wearing a face mask and brandishing a knife for the camera, recovered from a mobile phone found at the couple’s home. (West Midlands Police/PA)

Co-defendant Daniel Bogunovic, 27, of Crown Hills Rise, Leicester, is facing the same charge.

A host of Nazi and far-right memorabilia, and National Action flags, badges and banners, were found at the couple’s home, as well as what prosecutors described as an “extensive” collection of weapons, including crossbows, an axe and knives.

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A crossbow found in the couple’s bedroom, during police searches. (West Midlands Police/PA)

The couple also allegedly had a poster stuck to their fridge reading “Britain is ours – the rest must go”, and has a Swastika pastry-cutter in a kitchen drawer.

Thomas faces a separate charge of having a terrorist document, the Anarchy Cookbook, which contained bomb-making instructions.

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Claudia Patatas arriving at court (Aaron Chown/PA)

Mr Jameson QC showed jurors a series of photographs including one, found on a memory card at the house, showing Patatas holding her baby, standing next to Darren Fletcher holding a swastika flag and performing a Nazi-style salute.

Jurors previously heard that Fletcher, 28, of Kitchen Lane, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, previously admitted membership of National Action and was a “close friend” of Thomas.

Describing another image, said to show Thomas in the hooded robe with his child, the prosecuting barrister said: “The suggestion is that is Mr Thomas and his child, whose middle name is Adolf.”

Turning to an image of a hooded man with a machete, he added: “There is a strong inference, and you’ll appreciate this when you look inside the Thomas and Patatas house, that that was taken inside their home, and that the person in the robes was Thomas.”

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Darren Fletcher, who has admitted being a member of banned far-right terrorist group National Action, posing with alleged member Claudia Patatas and her baby at home. (West Midlands Police/PA)

It was alleged last week that in a message to another “vehement Nazi”, Patatas said: “All Jews must be put to death,” while Thomas told his partner, in a separate conversation, that he “found that all non-whites are intolerable”.

Two cushions bearing the swastika were found during police searches of the couple’s home after their arrest for alleged terrorism offences in January.

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The Swastika scatter cushions found on the sofa at Thomas’ and Patatas’ home. (West Midlands Police/PA)

A greetings card on the sideboard of the couple’s living room featured KKK figures and read: “May all your Christmases be white.”

It emerged in court that counter-terrorism officers from Prevent had visited the couple’s home in October last year “due to concerns Ms Patatas may be involved in the extreme right wing”.

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An image allegedly showing Thomas wearing a hooded Klansman robe, brandishing a machete in front of a KKK flag at his home. (West Midlands Police/PA)

Following National Action’s ban, the prosecution alleged the group tried to “shed one skin for another” to evade the law and that the three defendants were part of a successor organisation called the TripleK Mafia.

The Crown’s case is that the group was still National Action in all but name, and went through a “rebranding” exercise to evade scrutiny by the authorities.

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Pictures of two machetes found on the floor of the couple’s bedroom during police searches. (West Midlands Police/PA)

Mr Jameson said: “The Crown say all the defendants in this case along with those that have pleaded guilty or been convicted were cut from the same National Action cloth.

“They were fanatical, highly motivated, energetic, closely linked and mobile.

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A Swastika pastry cutter found in a kitchen drawer during searches of the couple’s Oxfordshire home. (West Midlands Police/PA)

“And they all had, we say, a similar interest in ethnic cleansing, with violence if necessary, and the evidence in this case, we say, speaks for itself.”

All three defendants deny wrongdoing and the trial, set to last four weeks, continues.