First picture of Brit, 54, arrested after six children were rescued from basement

A man arrested after six children were found in a basement in a village in Austria has been pictured for the first time.

Alleged Holocaust denier Tom Landon was arrested by police after he reportedly attacked two social workers with pepper spray in the Austrian village of Obritz.

Landon is a British conspiracy theorist and the author of several self-published books which The Times says denounce the country’s government.

Police had been warned by neighbors who heard children’s voices coming from inside the building, which was fitted with multiple surveillance cameras, the Daily Mail reported.

Officers were called and entered the basement and found Landon inside with his 40-year-old partner and children, aged between seven months and five years.

Erich Greil, the deputy mayor, told the 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 industry.”

The family is believed to have lived in a network of tunnels beneath Obritz, and Herr Greil added that he “wanted a basement for every child”.

Landon has self-edited his own books — including titles Red Sow, Dirty Justice, The Judas Principle and The Destructive Effect of Information Technology on Human Intellectual Development, the Daily Mail reports.

His books online date back to 2009 and he is believed to belong to a Reichsburger, a group of right-wing extremists who believe the German Reich still exists as it did before WWII and that the current German state is insignificant.

Landon was arrested and released the same evening but is expected to face charges of resisting law enforcement.

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