Shortcut: The day this police officer was stabbed by an alleged child sex offender

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.

CW: This episode contains discussions of child sexual assault.

Retired Detective Sergeant John Breda narrowly escaped being murdered by an alleged child sex offender, Nick Newman, on January 26th, 2018.

It is alleged that Nick Newman was 26 when he entered a sexual relationship with a 14 year old relative of his ex wife. After the child reported Newman to the police, he had made threats of "wanting to hunt her down" as well as issuing death threats to his ex-wife and family.

He was wanted by the police on the day Breda and his team were informed of his whereabouts in a Maroubra pub.

The altercation between Breda and Newman didn't turn out well for either of them, but there's only one of them still around to tell the tale.

For reasons that will become apparent in this episode, John Breda is an enthusiastic advocate for blood donation. Please click this link to learn more about how you can contribute to blood donation.

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0:00.0	We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,
0:04.3	and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.
0:07.4	Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.
0:10.3	Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,
0:15.2	our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in
0:19.9	Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.
0:25.8	This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests.
0:29.1	So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will
0:33.8	contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian
0:38.3	true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
0:41.9	listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people.
0:47.0	The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.
0:59.0	They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.
1:07.0	Strap yourselves in for this one because it's a hell of a story from a hell of a
1:16.0	storyteller. John Breeder is the kind of bloke actors base their hero Ozzy cop
1:21.0	characters on. He's handsome, he's funny, he's charismatic, and most importantly
1:27.3	he's a very good operator. There's not much that gets past him. An alleged sex offender by the name of Nick Newman tried to get
1:35.1	past him in the beer garden of a pub in Marubra one night in 2018. It didn't end well for either
1:41.0	of them, but there's only one of them still around to tell the tale.
1:45.0	Breda has one demand of us, and that is that we use this opportunity to promote blood donation,
1:51.0	and that we remind all of you and ourselves to get in touch with the Red Cross and donate blood as soon as we all can and if possible consider becoming regular blood donors.
2:01.0	In Australia we can do that by going to lifeblood.com.
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