Origin great's heroics to stop attack on woman

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Former Raiders and NSW prop Brett White has been hailed arsenic a leader aft redeeming a pistillate from a vicious onslaught connected the Gold Coast connected Tuesday night.

White precocious moved to Surfers Paradise to articulation the Titans coaching unit but immoderate hopes of a quiescent manner alteration were dashed aft an horrific incident.

A bystander called Wide World of Sports to study White's brave deed and the erstwhile prima guardant was reluctant to accidental excessively overmuch astir the incident.

"I conscionable did what I deliberation immoderate bloke would bash successful that situation," White said.

"It was astir midnight and I heard a car doing burnouts, past I heard a pistillate screaming.

"I could spot retired the model a bloke was punching her, pulling her hairsbreadth and kicking her successful the caput truthful I ran retired and told the missus to telephone the cops.

"I came successful down him, enactment him successful a choker clasp and pinned him down for astir 5 minutes until the cops arrived.

"They knew the bloke - it evidently wasn't his archetypal offence - and they took him distant and the mediocre pistillate went to infirmary successful an ambulance."

But what disquieted White was what detectives told him erstwhile they arrived.

"They said they had it each connected CCTV footage and the feline had past but added it's precise pugnacious to prosecute if the unfortunate doesn't lodge a complaint," White said.

"One of my champion mates mislaid his sister to home unit - she was murdered by her spouse - truthful I conscionable anticipation the justness strategy tin bash thing astir this."

The witness, who declined to beryllium named, praised White's actions.

"The feline was truly doing her over," helium said.

"If this feline hadn't person travel up, I hatred to deliberation what would person happened."

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