Disgraced former participant agent Ricky Nixon has been condemned for branding a postman he bashed ‘an unlawful immigrant who cannot communicate English’ on a podcast after being discovered responsible of his assault.
Nixon appeared on Sam Newman’s You Can’t Be Critical podcast on June 5 a day after he was discovered responsible of assaulting postie Behroz Kahaliqi throughout a parcel supply gone fallacious.
The 61-year previous appeared within the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court docket on Thursday the place his lawyer Sai Ranjit tried to keep away from Nixon’s rant to Newman being performed in courtroom.
The recording heard Nixon take goal at his sufferer, who the courtroom heard had been fully harmless of any fallacious doing.
‘He is allegedly an unlawful immigrant. Whether or not he’s or is not I do not care,’ Nixon stated.
In a collection of untamed claims, Nixon claimed Mr Kahaliqi couldn’t keep in mind the incident and recommended he himself had been the sufferer of a police conspiracy.
He additional falsely claimed Mr Kahaliqi had since been sacked by Australia Publish.
‘(Australia Publish) have not commented as to why they sacked him, however it might be a exceptional coincidental that they sacked the corporate he works for, and sacked him – they have been a contractor,’ Nixon informed Newman.
Disgraced participant agent Ricky Nixon exterior a Melbourne courtroom on Thursday
Nixon informed Newman to not trouble asking Mr Kahaliqi for his aspect of the story as a result of he would not have the ability to perceive him.
‘He’d communicate uncommunicatable English and also you would not perceive a phrase he stated. So that you’re losing your time,’ stated Nixon.
The courtroom heard Nixon additionally took goal at Justice of the Peace Vincenzo Caltabiano himself, who discovered Nixon responsible of illegal assault and discharging a missile after a contested listening to on June 4.
‘The Justice of the Peace said yesterday that “I discover the sufferer as a reputable witness and that Mr Nixon’s statements are inconsistent”,’ Nixon informed Newman.
‘There have been six witnesses – one was the sufferer. The opposite 5 witnesses all said on file that Nixon didn’t punch him. Ricky threw him out on the footpath, which I admit to, threw a parcel out onto the footpath.
‘He claims I threw the parcel at him. The Justice of the Peace says that he believes him, not me that I threw the parcel at him … but there is no proof.’
The courtroom heard Nixon claimed Mr Kahaliqi referred to as his now estranged companion Melissa Huynh a ‘c***’ and ‘s***’ and was compelled to defend himself from an assault instigated by the offended postie at his Port Melbourne dwelling on March 10, 2022.
Justice of the Peace Caltabiano dominated Nixon was not performing in self-defence and assaulted the postman regardless of no risk to his personal security.
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The Justice of the Peace lashed out at Nixon for his podcast rant.
‘It has a quite disagreeable tone,’ Mr Caltabiano stated.
‘I acknowledge the accused particular person might not settle for a discovering towards them, however to exit and make allegations of the character explicit that this particular person couldn’t communicate English when he clearly gave proof in a transparent method in courtroom with out the help of an interpreter … it doesn’t replicate nicely on Mr Nixon in any respect.’
The prosecution referred to as on Mr Caltabiano to jail Nixon together with a neighborhood corrections order.
‘Mr Nixon’s feedback through the podcast … that Mr Kahaliqi assaulted him, he is an unlawful immigrant … should not primarily based actually and fully at odds with the proof heard through the course of this listening to and at odds along with your honour’s rulings,’ she stated.
‘To re-characterise the proof to make Mr Nixon look set-up or in some way exhausting completed over by the system whereas the identical time vilifying Mr Kahaliqi, who’s the sufferer on this matter, exhibits a whole absence of regret for his offending, a whole lack of perception into the offending and the affect that the offending has had on others.’
The courtroom heard the prosecution believed Nixon had ‘restricted’ prospects of rehabilitation.
‘Mr Nixon himself has indicated publicly that he doesn’t view neighborhood work hours as a type of punishment and it is for these causes … we are saying the extra acceptable sentence can be a time period of imprisonment adopted by a CCO,’ the prosecutor stated.
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Ricky Nixon exterior a Melbourne courtroom on Thursday
Earlier than the podcast was performed, Nixon’s lawyer had tried to recommend media consideration about his consumer’s postie assault amounted to further curial punishment.
It was a submission slapped down by the prosecution.
‘The feedback that he is put into the general public realm are in my submission no totally different to if he made feedback to the media ready exterior courtroom,’ she stated.
Mr Ranjit admitted his consumer had no regret for behaviour.
In pleading for mercy, Mr Ranjit claimed Nixon had been enterprise anger administration counselling and wanted to be free in the neighborhood to proceed his travels interstate on soccer membership fundraisers – an exercise the courtroom heard Nixon takes cost for.
Mr Caltabiano sentenced Nixon to an 18-month neighborhood corrections order that included him performing 150 hours of unpaid neighborhood work and psychological well being remedy.
Nixon instantly indicated he supposed to enchantment the choice, describing the sentence to his lawyer as ‘a joke’.
