Disgraced former player agent Ricky Nixon has been convicted for calling a mailman he attacked “an illegal immigrant who can’t speak English” on a podcast after being found guilty of his assault.
Nixon appeared on Sam Newman You can not be serious on June 5, a day after he was convicted of assaulting mailman Behroz Kahaliqi during a package delivery gone wrong.
The 61-year-old appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday, where his lawyer Sai Ranjit attempted to prevent Nixon’s rant against Newman from being played in court.
In the recording, Nixon is heard pointing at his victim, who, the court heard, was completely innocent of any crime.
“He’s supposedly an illegal immigrant. Whether he is or not, I don’t care,” Nixon said.
In a series of wild claims, Nixon claimed that Kahaliqi could not remember the incident and suggested that he himself had been the victim of a police conspiracy.
He further falsely claimed that Mr. Kahaliqi had He has since been fired by Australia Post.
“(Australia Post) has not commented on why he was sacked, but it would be a remarkable coincidence if the company he works for was sacked and he was sacked – they were a contractor,” Nixon told Newman.
Disgraced player agent Ricky Nixon outside a Melbourne court on Thursday
Nixon told Newman not to bother asking Kahaliqi her side of the story because he wouldn’t be able to understand it.
‘He spoke incommunicable English and you wouldn’t understand a word he said. “Then you’re wasting your time,” Nixon said.
The court heard that Nixon also took aim at Magistrate Vincenzo Caltabiano himself, who found Nixon guilty of unlawful assault and firing a missile after a contested hearing on June 4.
“The magistrate stated yesterday that ‘I find the victim to be a credible witness and that Mr. Nixon’s statements are inconsistent,'” Nixon told Newman.
‘There were six witnesses, one was the victim. The other five witnesses officially testified that Nixon did not punch him. Ricky threw it to the sidewalk, which he admittedly threw a package onto the sidewalk.
—He claims I threw the package at him. The magistrate says he believes him, not me, that I threw the package at him… but there is no evidence.
The court heard Nixon claim Kahaliqi called his now ex-partner Melissa Huynh a ‘c***’ and a ‘s***’ and was forced to defend himself from an attack instigated by the angry courier at his Port Melbourne home on March 10th. , 2022.
Magistrate Caltabiano ruled that Nixon was not acting in self-defense and assaulted the postman even though there was no threat to his own safety.
Ricky Nixon’s relationship with ‘the St Kilda schoolgirl’ aka Kim Duthie (right) in 2010 affected his career as a player agent.
Nixon claimed to have recently broken up with his last girlfriend, Melissa Huynh.
The judge lashed out at Nixon for his rant on the podcast.
“It has a rather unpleasant tone,” Mr. Caltabiano said.
‘I recognize that the accused person may not accept a finding against them but go out and make allegations of a particular nature that this person could not speak English when they clearly gave evidence clearly in court without the aid of an interpreter. …does not reflect well on Mr. Nixon.’
The prosecution asked Caltabiano to jail Nixon in combination with a community corrections order.
“Mr. Nixon’s comments during the podcast… that Mr. Kahaliqi assaulted him, that he is an illegal immigrant… are not based on fact and are completely at odds with the evidence heard during the course of this hearing and in disagreement with your honor’s decisions,” he said.
“Recharacterizing the evidence to make Mr. Nixon appear deceived or somehow mistreated by the system and at the same time vilifying Mr. Kahaliqi, who is the victim in this matter, shows a complete absence of remorse for his offense, a complete lack of knowledge about the crime and the impact the crime has had on others.’
The court heard that the prosecution believed Nixon had “limited” prospects for rehabilitation.
“Mr. Nixon himself has publicly indicated that he does not view community service hours as a form of punishment and it is for those reasons… we say the most appropriate sentence would be a prison sentence followed by a CCO,” the prosecutor said.
Nixon is friends with Sam Newman, who continues to indulge his rants on his podcast
Ricky Nixon outside a Melbourne court on Thursday
Before the podcast played, Nixon’s lawyer had tried to suggest that media attention on his client’s postal assault amounted to extra curial punishment.
It was a presentation rejected by the prosecution.
“The comments he has made publicly, in my view, are no different than if he were to make comments to the media waiting outside the court,” he said.
Ranjit admitted that his client had no remorse for his behavior.
In asking for leniency, Ranjit claimed that Nixon had been receiving anger management counseling and needed to be free in the community to continue his interstate travel to raise funds for football clubs, an activity for which the court heard Nixon charges. .
Mr. Caltabiano sentenced Nixon to a