Disgraced player agent Ricky Nixon spared jail despite bitter Sam Newman podcast rant - as his own lawyer makes brutal admission

Disgraced former player agent Ricky Nixon has been condemned for branding a postman he bashed 'an illegal immigrant who can't speak English' on a podcast after being found guilty of his assault. 

Nixon appeared on Sam Newman's You Cannot Be Serious podcast on June 5 a day after he was found guilty of assaulting postie Behroz Kahaliqi during a parcel delivery gone wrong.

The 61-year old appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Thursday where his lawyer Sai Ranjit attempted to avoid Nixon's rant to Newman being played in court. 

The recording heard Nixon take aim at his victim, who the court heard had been completely innocent of any wrong doing. 

'He's allegedly an illegal immigrant. Whether he is or isn't I don't care,' Nixon said. 

In a series of wild claims, Nixon claimed Mr Kahaliqi could not remember the incident and suggested he himself had been the victim of a police conspiracy. 

He further falsely claimed Mr Kahaliqi had since been sacked by Australia Post.

'(Australia Post) haven't commented as to why they sacked him, but it would be a remarkable coincidental that they sacked the company he works for, and sacked him - they were a contractor,' Nixon told Newman.  

Nixon told Newman not to bother asking Mr Kahaliqi for his side of the story because he wouldn't be able to understand him.

'He'd speak uncommunicatable English and you wouldn't understand a word he said. So you're wasting your time,' said Nixon. 

The court heard Nixon also took aim at Magistrate Vincenzo Caltabiano himself, who found Nixon guilty of unlawful assault and discharging a missile after a contested hearing on June 4. 

'The magistrate stated yesterday that "I find the victim as 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 all stated on record that Nixon did not 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 magistrate says that he believes him, not me that I threw the parcel at him ... yet there's no evidence.'

The court heard Nixon claimed Mr Kahaliqi called his now estranged partner Melissa Huynh a 'c***' and 's***' and was forced to defend himself from an attack instigated by the angry postie at his Port Melbourne home on March 10, 2022.

Magistrate Caltabiano ruled Nixon was not acting in self-defence and assaulted the postman despite no threat to his own safety. 

The magistrate lashed out at Nixon for his podcast rant. 

'It has a rather unpleasant tone,' Mr Caltabiano said.

'I acknowledge the accused person may not accept a finding against them, but to go out and make allegations of the nature particular that this person could not speak English when he clearly gave evidence in a clear manner in court without the aid of an interpreter ... it does not reflect well on Mr Nixon at all.'

The prosecution called on Mr Caltabiano to jail Nixon in combination with a community corrections order. 

'Mr Nixon's comments during the podcast ... that Mr Kahaliqi assaulted him, he's an illegal immigrant ... are not based in fact and completely at odds with the evidence heard during the course of this hearing and at odds with your honour's rulings,' she said. 

'To re-characterise the evidence to make Mr Nixon look set-up or somehow hard done over by the system while the same time vilifying Mr Kahaliqi, who is the victim in this matter, shows a complete absence of remorse for his offending, a complete lack of insight into the offending and the impact that the offending has had on others.'

The court heard the prosecution believed Nixon had 'limited' prospects of rehabilitation. 

'Mr Nixon himself has indicated publicly that he does not view community work hours as a form of punishment and it's for those reasons ... we say the more appropriate sentence would be a term of imprisonment followed by a CCO,' the prosecutor said. 

Before the podcast was played, Nixon's lawyer had tried to suggest media attention about his client's postie assault amounted to extra curial punishment. 

It was a submission slapped down by the prosecution. 

'The comments that he's put into the public realm are in my submission no different to if he made comments to the media waiting outside court,' she said. 

Mr Ranjit admitted his client had no remorse for behaviour. 

In pleading for mercy, Mr Ranjit claimed Nixon had been undertaking anger management counselling and needed to be free in the community to continue his travels interstate on football club fundraisers - an activity the court heard Nixon takes payment for. 

Mr Caltabiano sentenced Nixon to an 18-month community corrections order that included him performing 150 hours of unpaid community work and mental health treatment. 

Nixon immediately indicated he intended to appeal the decision, describing the sentence to his lawyer as 'a joke'.