NATION Joyce’s bullet mailer guilty

AN elderly man who posted a bullet to Barnaby Joyce with a letter calling him a “red faced piece of s-- t” and told the Deputy Prime Minister’s parents their son would end up “very dead” has pleaded guilty.

It can now be revealed that Neville Clifford Newman, 74, used a typewriter to write the threatening letter before stickytaping a .22 calibre bullet to the middle of it and posting it between August 1 and November 6.

“bbarnaby joyce andmalcolm turnbull ? if you think you are going to give billion dollars to establish that mega coal mine in north queensland sixty minutes showed how big amess they left everywhere ( sic),” the letter starts out.

It then accuses Mr Joyce of being “so bloody corrupt” and says “you will bestopped ( sic)”.

“You are disgrace t to our countryyou ( sic) red faced piece of s** t,” it concludes.

Newman, an Armidale retiree, later used a pay phone to call Mr Joyce’s parents, Beryl and James, just weeks after their son claimed victory in the New England by- election due to the bombshell High Court ruling.

They were not home and he left a voice message saying “tell ( Mr Joyce) he is going to end up very dead that bastard, him and that Turnbull if he lets that mine go through Queensland”.

“That bastard, the way he sold us out to everybody else, he is a dog.”

Newman sat in Armidale Local Court yesterday day holding his wife’s hand as his solicitor Rod Watt said he would be pleading guilty to both matters.

He was charged with use a carriage service to menace/ harass/ offend and also stalking/ intimidating with the intention to cause fear.

Magistrate Michael Holmes said the facts were “serious” and the matter was adjourned to April 23 for sentence.

The court heard Newman’s legal team needed time to obtain medical reports for the pre- sentence report and that he was booked in for a psychologist appointment.

Facts tendered to court said that Newman, who cares full time for his sick wife, expressed “genuine remorse” for his actions which he had described as “the biggest mistake of my life”.

Newman, who has no prior criminal history, made admissions to the police on both crimes.

He told police he did not have any intention to harm either Mr Joyce or his parents, but he was “frustrated with what he perceives as the destruction of Australia by politicians”. in North