Stephen Paul NAYLOR
Stephen Paul NAYLOR
New South Wales Police Force
Redfern Police Academy Class # 134
Regd. # 15685
Ranks: Commenced Training at Redfern Police Academy on Monday 26 February 1973 ( aged 21 years, 4 months, 12 days )
Probationary Constable – appointed Monday 2 April 1973 ( aged 21 years, 5 months, 19 days )
Constable – appointed 2 April 1974
Constable 1st Class – appointed 2 April 1978
Final Rank: Constable 1st Class
Stations: Burwood, Five Dock – Death
Service: From 26 February 1973 to 7 December 1979 = 6 years, 9 months, 11 days Service
Awards: No Find on Australian Honours system
Born: Sunday 14 October 1951
Died: Friday 7 December 1979
Age: 28 years, 1 months, 23 days
Cause: Murdered – Pedestrian – Drive at – Off Duty
Location of event: Parramatta Rd, Burwood, NSW
Funeral date: ? ? ?
Funeral location: Rookwood Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Rookwood ( Lidcombe ), NSW
Grave location: Cremated. Ashes Scattered.
No Memorial.
Stephen is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance- BUT SHOULD BE
The Canberra Times
Saturday 8 December 1979 Page 3
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110972240
Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995),
Tuesday 11 December 1979, page 11
Youth on two murder counts
SYDNEY: A youth aged 17 had called, ” See what I can do, copper, see what I can do “, after driving toward six men and killing two of them, one a policeman, a Children’s Court was told yesterday.
The youth appeared before Mr Blackmore, SM, in the Metropolitan Children’s Court on 12 counts, including two of murder at Burwood last Friday.
Mr C. Phegan, prosecuting, said the incidents occurred after the youth left a party to sleep in his car after an earlier altercation with his host.
Mr Blackmore allowed the Press into the hearing, but ordered that the youth’s name and address not be published.
Mr Phegan asked that the charges be adjourned to Glebe Coroner’s Court on December 19, for mention.
Mr K. G. Hickey, for the youth, asked for bail for his client after agreeing to the remand date.
Mr Phegan, asking that bail be refused, said the youth had an altercation with his host at a party.
” As a result he left the party intending to sleep in his car “, Mr Phegan said.
” It is further alleged he was involved in an altercation with off-duty police officers who were joined by a number of civilians “.
Mr Phegan said the youth drove his car along the footpath on Parramatta Road. There were six men on the footpath and the youth drove towards them. Four jumped out of the vehicle’s path.
The car had hit Mr Peter Petracco, 32, and Constable first-class Stephen Naylor, 29, fatally injuring both.
The youth was remanded without bail until December 19.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110972914
Richard Baxter, FB – Support Aussie Cops, on 23 December 2011, recalls a work mate by the name of Stephen NAYLOR being attached to Burwood ( NSW ) being murdered about 1979.
First Published 8 December 2014
Updated 8 January 2025
Can’t recall the date. Approaching Christmas 1978 or 1979. Steve Naylor was wearing part uniform, attending a Christmas party at a car yard on Parramatta Rd (Burwood, Concord or Five Dock) possibly called the “Cord Car Company”. There was an altercation at the party and a young male had been ejected. He then stole a car from the yard and waited in Parramatta road for the police officer and others to come outside before driving at speed along the footpath, running the Constable down before crashing into a telegraph pole further down the road.