Alleged Holocaust denier arrested after 'keeping British girls in cellar for nine months' pictured for first time

(Credit: LBC/Adam Solomons)

The man arrested on suspicion of keeping six young British children in his wine cellar for nine months has been identified as a conspiracy theorist and alleged Holocaust denier.

Tom Landon, 54, was reported to social services by neighbours who heard children's voices from his home in Obritz, northern Austria.

When anyone approached, they reportedly became silent.

Inspectors found Landon and his 40-year-old partner, plus the five young children between seven months and five years of age.

Obritz deputy mayor Erich Greil told the Sunday Times: "He’s not from here and has only been Obritz for a short time.

"Before that, he apparently lived in England. I think he worked in the IT sector."

The official said Landon could speak English and German.

He has ties to the German Reichsburger movement, which recently had a coup attempt on the German state foiled by authorities.

A neighbour said: "Of course we knew the suspect.

"He also wanted to buy our cellar last year but nobody really knew anything about what was going on."

Mr Greil added that the children do not appear to have been mistreated and were seen walking around the town two weeks beforehand.

Josef Fritzl kept his daughter Elisabeth locked in a cellar in Amstetten, 100 miles away in Lower Austria, for 24 years.

He forced her to have seven children between 1984 and 2008.

(Link to original story at: https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/tom-landon-austria-cellar-british-children-alleged-holocaust-denier/)

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

He wouldn't been caught on both things if he was a Muslim

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

So how much did he post at /pol/?

I don't know. But if cunnyposting grinds to a halt or slows down, ar least we know why.

 

[Nick Gars]

OK...

Wait, what? So were they "kept" in the cellar (implying that they were tied/locked in a room and mistreated), or has the cellar been converted into a bedroom (never had a wine cellar, but I assume it wouldn't be terribly comfortable)?

Why is is there now only five children? What happened to the sixth?
Are they his children?
Why did you bring up Josef Fritzl?

Who fucking wrote this?

Yeah, the fact none of them were mistreated and apparently had some kind of freedom at some level makes this really fucking weird. The Fritzl comparison seems really forced considering the primary crime they seem to care about is fucking "Holocaust denial".

Everything about this story is fishy and suspect.

 

[byuu]

Yeah, the fact none of them were mistreated and apparently had some kind of freedom at some level makes this really fucking weird. The Fritzl comparison seems really forced considering the primary crime they seem to care about is fucking "Holocaust denial".

Everything about this story is fishy and suspect.

You have Austria and children in cellars.
Who isn't immediately reminded of Fritzl?

 

[teriyakiburns]

This is the British we're talking about

Read it again. This all took place in Austria.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

So he kept a 7 month old in his cellar for 9 months? Where did these children come from?

Are you implying life begins at conception?

 

[byuu]

Read it again. This all took place in Austria.

And reported by a British outlet.
The Austrians just arrested a Brit "on suspicion of keeping six young British children in his wine cellar for nine months"

 

[teriyakiburns]

And reported by a British outlet.
The Austrians just arrested a Brit "on suspicion of keeping six young British children in his wine cellar for nine months"

The argument I was responding to was talking about british authorities covering things up. It has literally nothing to do with the story.

 

[ArthuriusMartyrius]

Well shit, I legitimately expected someone, ahem, of a different appearance.

 

[Homegrown Homophobia]

What in the fuck is with Austria and hosting freaks who keep people locked up in dungeons?

 

[Übertroon]

Yeah, the fact none of them were mistreated and apparently had some kind of freedom at some level makes this really fucking weird. The Fritzl comparison seems really forced considering the primary crime they seem to care about is fucking "Holocaust denial".

Everything about this story is fishy and suspect.

Sounds like he was trying to homeschool the children, and the authorities disagreed with that decision.
The article even mentions the children were out in public from time to time.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Sounds like he was trying to homeschool the children, and the authorities disagreed with that decision.
The article even mentions the children were out in public from time to time.

They're claiming these were British kids and the question obviously is where were the parents? This Daily Mail article has video of the cellar and yeah that'd be pretty damn creepy to be living in. Maybe there is more to the story and we're just getting the argument from biased prosecutors but unless they're making claims up out of thin air it's pretty hard to rationalize.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

If you deny the holocaust you are literally a serial killer.

 

[Bonesjones]

They're claiming these were British kids and the question obviously is where were the parents? This Daily Mail article has video of the cellar and yeah that'd be pretty damn creepy to be living in. Maybe there is more to the story and we're just getting the argument from biased prosecutors but unless they're making claims up out of thin air it's pretty hard to rationalize.

I notice they only show the parts that look like a World War era bomb shelter, that is clean and organized. Also a kitchen that is clean and organized and also has space for atleast 8 people in front of a window. It looks like a few other rooms they gloss over, probably because they don't look quite as creepy.

 

[CowPox]

These fucking anti semites giving us rapist pedophelic kidnappers a bad name.

 

[Looney Troons]

What in the fuck is with Austria and hosting freaks who keep people locked up in dungeons?

From what I’ve gathered, you buy a plot of land, it’s yours. Where I need to go through the city to get building permits to build a rape dungeon on the property that I “own” in the US, you can do whatever the fuck you want in Austria. Soil must be good for digging and supporting structures too

 

[JackoVerde]

its kind of weird how his holocaust denial comes up first.
dude kept woman in captivity for nine months.

thats like if I said, Gay democrat man Jeffrey dahmer killed and canabalized five men

 

[CuzinEd]

Of course they have to play up the fact that he was an evil holocaust denier. That shows that anyone who denies the holohoax isn't just evil for that alone. They are also pedophiles.

 

[indigoisviolet]

Yeah, the Mail is casting this as "prepper neglect" rather than a kidnap rape dungeon. Like he's trying to climatise his family to living in a fallout shelter. They also refer to him as a "conspiracy theorist" obsessed with the collapse of society rather than zeroing in on any details, which would make sense in context more than if he just had funny ideas about the jews.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

It used to be you could discern whether this meant he was a faggot or not.

It's got to be a female because otherwise he'd be charged with stealing a bunch of kids, right?

But why wasn't she charged for keeping her kids in the basement?