Matt Stanton, left in striped shirt. NSW Police image.
Matt Stanton, the acting CEO of Nine Entertainment, took a stand to help save a teenage boy from being beaten by a gang in Sydney’s Manly.
He helped block a door to a restaurant to stop those pursuing the teenager on the evening of January 6.
Stanton said he was pushed and spat on as the gang tried to get entry.
“I just held the door and said ‘No, no, you’re not coming in’,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
“It was natural instinct – probably a stupid instinct as my wife told me afterward.”
Stanton came forward after police released a photo of two men who witnessed the brawl. A second man is still to be identified.
Police have established a strike force to investigate the brawl involving up to 40 people.
A knife was found discarded on the ground by police.
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