A British national with neo-Nazi connections, who has resided in Australia for the past 15 years, is facing deportation due to allegations of disseminating hateful content online. The Daily Mail has uncovered details about Kayn Adam Charles Wells, a 43-year-old father, whose Australian visa was revoked on Monday as part of a crackdown on hate speech by authorities.

Wells was apprehended on December 3 at his Caboolture residence, located north of Brisbane, following accusations that he posted antisemitic material on the social media platform X across two separate accounts between October 10 and November 5 of this year.

Authorities reported discovering several weapons, including swords adorned with swastikas, axes, and knives, during a search of his home.

He faces charges of using a carriage service to menace, harass, or offend, along with three counts related to the public display of prohibited Nazi symbols.

Initially released on bail, Wells was scheduled to appear in court on January 7. However, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has announced that Wells is now being held in an immigration detention center instead.

He was released on bail and was due to next face court on January 7 next year, but Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has confirmed he has instead been taken to an immigration detention centre. 

Wells will be offered the chance to leave the country voluntarily or otherwise face deportation to the UK.  

‘He came here to hate – he doesn’t get to stay,’ Burke said on Wednesday. 

‘If you come to Australia on a visa, you are here as a guest. 

‘Almost everyone on a visa is a good guest and a welcome guest in Australia, but if someone comes here for the purposes of hate, they can leave.’

The Daily Mail can reveal Wells – who was known as ‘Adam’ until he legally added ‘Kayn’ to his name in late 2020 – has been in Australia for more than a decade after becoming a permanent resident in 2013. 

He spent several years living in northern NSW with his Australian wife, Kellie, and their son, before the family moved to Queensland around 2018. 

His arrest is one of many Australian authorities have made during a widespread crackdown on visa holders allegedly spreading hate rhetoric within the community.

Posts from his since-suspended X account reveal Wells made comments claiming: ‘There is no Aboriginal culture.

‘It’s not a culture. Born here means Australian. Not skin colour,’ one post reads.

Videos posted online also show him axe throwing and shooting gel blasters with his son in the backyard of the family’s rented Caboolture property in 2020.

But his wife, Kellie Wells, told the Daily Mail her husband is not a neo-Nazi and is instead a mentally-ill man who has been swept up in the government crackdown. 

Australian Federal Police said Wells was arrested prior to the Bondi Beach massacre, following a week-long operation by National Security Investigations teams to target individuals using far-right paraphernalia and other illegal symbols.

It is alleged Wells used two different accounts on X, formerly Twitter, to display the Nazi swastika and other offensive content on several occasions between October 10 and November 5, 2025.

Police allege the social media platform blocked Wells’ main account, which led to the creation of a second handle that he used to continue to post offensive, harmful and targeted content.

It is also alleged he used the X to ‘espouse a pro-Nazi ideology with a specific hatred of the Jewish community, and to advocate for violence towards this community’.

But Ms Wells says her husband is not affiliated with neo-Nazis and officials have failed to take into consideration her husband’s individual circumstances.

She said her husband was viciously attacked in January by a group of eight teenage boys while he was working as a carpark cleaner in Morayfield, north of Brisbane. 

Ms Wells said the schoolboys threw rubbish at him, then kicked and beat him while he was on the ground, before hitting him over the head with a metal bar. 

She said her husband was left with head injuries and psychological trauma – including PTSD – and was unable to work after the attack as his old job was triggering and his employer could not find another alternative position to give him. 

The family applied for work cover, but it was denied, leaving Wells isolated at home while his son went to school and his wife worked to cover their bills.  

From that point, Ms Wells said her husband’s personality radically changed as he spiralled into depression and turned to online communities for social support.

‘This isn’t someone who is pro-Nazi – he really isn’t. He has no associations with neo-Nazis. This is a case of a man with mental illness,’ she said.

‘These kids almost killed him. He had no income all year. He went down a really bad path in his brain. 

‘He didn’t even have social media until that point. He is quite socially anxious. He doesn’t have any social connections really besides me and our son. 

‘What he was trying to do was find people who would listen to him.’ 

Ms Wells said her husband isn’t a violent person and never had extreme views prior to the attack.

She said the sword with a Nazi symbol allegedly found at their home was a plastic weapon her husband found in a carpark and brought home because he is a sword collector. 

She condemned anti-Semitism, saying it is ‘horrific’ and something ‘we need to stand against as a society’, but explained her husband’s vitriol extended beyond a specific group of people due to his mental state. 

‘It was more of a PTSD outburst. He went for everyone online,’ she said.

‘He is more dangerous to himself than anybody else.’

Ms Wells said she was shocked to receive a call on Monday that her husband had been taken into custody by immigration officers who had been waiting for him to report to the bail office. 

As Australians, she said she and her 14-year-old son are now facing the prospect of having their family torn apart or having to upend their lives to move overseas while they have no money and are still waiting to be allocated a legal aid lawyer to get advice. 

Ms Wells said the government failed to help her husband when he was the victim of a brutal attack and they feel further let down by the system.

‘Before the attack, he was just a normal guy. Always socially withdrawn [but] nothing dangerous,’ she said.

‘I wouldn’t have been with him for 15 years if he had been. I love him to pieces. The counsellor and everyone agree this [behaviour online] has stemmed from the attack.

‘He is not a violent man. This is a broken man. The system says you can’t fight back because they are children. He did the right thing and didn’t fight back.

‘I’m a mess. I can’t believe this is happening to our family.’

The Daily Mail has contacted Burke’s office for comment. 

Authorities have been cracking down on visa holders who breach character requirements, with South African neo-Nazi Matthew Gruter sent home earlier this month after attending an antisemitic rally in Sydney’s CBD. 

The clampdown is set to become even more strict, with the Albanese government this week vowing to take a tougher approach on hate speech and make it easier to cancel visas in the wake of the Bondi Beach attack.

Burke is pushing for increased powers to revoke visas, especially for those who have a history of displaying hate symbols, taking part in hate speech or vilification.

‘Effectively, we will be making it easier for the Australian Federal Police to successfully bring charges against those who use and display hate symbols,’ he said.

‘We’ll also be making changes to the Customs Act so that, as well as it being unlawful for them to be held in Australia, it is easier for them to be intercepted at the border if they’re seen there.’

Wells was charged under the government’s existing visa revocation laws after his visa was cancelled earlier this month.

On Tuesday, Burke said the government was exploring the ‘method and the motivation’ behind the Bondi Beach terror attack.

He explained the attorney-general, police, justice portfolios, a senior group of officials from the home affairs along with state and territory premiers’ department had met early this week.

The group discussed the enforcement of strict gun control measures, as well as hate speech policies that the national cabinet agreed to following the Bondi massacre.

‘We’ll now be drafting instructions for the Commonwealth components of legislative changes,’ Burke said.

‘Some of those drafting instructions will be issued tomorrow. Others will be immediately after Christmas.

‘The Hate Crimes Database and the National Firearms Register are both being accelerated to be able to provide the best possible information both to the public generally and to the authorities that issue gun licences.’

The deadly attack at Bondi Beach unfolded as hundreds of people gathered for the Chanukah by the Sea event just before 7pm on December 14.

Naveed Akram, 24, and his 50-year-old father Sajid allegedly opened fire with military-grade weapons on hundreds attending the first day of the Jewish festival.

During the nine-minute attack, 16 people, including gunman Sajid, were killed, and 42 others were injured.

The victims include 10-year-old Matilda; Edith Brutman, 68; Dan Elkayam, 27; Boris Gurman, 69, and his wife Sofia, 61; Alex Kleytman, 87; Yaakov Levitan, 39; Peter Meagher, 61; Reuven Morrison, 62; Marika Pogany, 82; Rabbi Eli Schlanger, 41; Adam Smyth, 50; Boris Tetleroyd, 68; Tania Tretiak, 68; and Tibor Weitzen, 78.