Ex-CFMEU heavyweight David Hanna guilty of corruptly receiving $300,000 in free work on his house

Convicted rapist and ex-CFMEU heavyweight David Hanna has been found guilty of corruptly receiving $300,000 in free work from tradies at his southeast Queensland home.

CONVICTED rapist and ex-CFMEU heavyweight David Hanna has been found guilty of corruptly receiving $300,000 in free work from tradies at his Logan home.

The 55-year-old, who was an executive at the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union and a divisional secretary with the Builders Labourers Federation at the time, was today convicted by a Queensland District Court jury of corruptly receiving a secret commission from Mirvac executive Mathew Jason McAllum, 44, in 2013.

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Hanna will be sentenced for corruptly receiving or soliciting valuable consideration to influence favour in relation to a principal’s affairs or business next week.

McAllum was today acquitted of corruptly giving or offering valuable consideration to influence favour in relation to a principal’s affairs or business, after pleading not guilty to the charge at the start of the trial.

The court heard that McAllum was working as a project manager overseeing the second stage of Mirvac’s Orion shopping ­centre at Springfield Lakes when he and another man who is now deceased approached tradies on site and asked if they wanted to do a “job on the side” – Hanna’s home.

Former CFMEU official David Hanna. Picture AAP/David Clark

A jury today found Hanna corruptly received $290,000 in free bricklaying, ­plumbing, air-conditioning, painting, tiling and interior ­design.

They found the work had not been offered by McAllum in exchange for favourable treatment on the work site by the CFMEU.

The work on Hanna’s home was invoiced to Mirvac, and in some instances, McAllum told contractors how to draft bills and emailed them plans for the job, the court heard during the trial.

The Courier-Mail can now reveal Hanna was earlier this year jailed for at least three years for raping an intoxicated woman, who was trying to get home after a night out.

He was in February convicted of several rapes of younger woman was too drunk to consent to sex in March 2017.

Hanna was also convicted of making recordings in breach of privacy after he filmed and photographed the horrific sexual assaults on the woman.

The union boss had met the woman at a bar then went home with her in a taxi after she had been kicked out of the venue for intoxication.

He knocked down her townhouse door because she had lost her keys and followed her into her home and raped her when she was “out cold”.

Hanna was sentenced to six years’ jail but will be eligible for parole in February 2022.

He was also handed a suspended sentence in December 2018 after being found guilty of destroying documents possibly relevant to the trade union royal commission in 2014.