Mahmoud ‘Mick’ Hawi’s widow no longer wants murdered former bikie’s sperm
SPERM extracted from the body of former bikie boss Mahmoud “Mick” Hawi before he was gunned down will be destroyed after his widow advised she no longer wished to proceed with an application to use it for “personal reasons”.
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SPERM extracted from the body of former bikie boss Mahmoud “Mick” Hawi before he was gunned down will be destroyed after his widow advised she no longer wished to proceed with an application to use it for “personal reasons”.
In the hours after Hawi’s death in February his wife Carolina Gonzalez — the mother of his two children — was given permission to posthumously extract sperm from her dead husband in the NSW Supreme Court.
The court allowed the retrieval after Ms Gonzalez’s legal team filed an affidavit from urologist Dr Derek Lok on February 16, which stated any post-mortem sperm retrieval procedure needed to be undertaken as soon as possible after death and within 36 hours after death.
It was being stored at an IVF facility until the court made a ruling on his widow’s pending application to use it.
This morning at the court was informed that Ms Gonzalez no longer wished to continue with the proceedings “for personal reasons”.
Justice Peter Johnson therefore ordered a hearing date be vacated and the sperm being held at the facility be destroyed.
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When making the urgent application earlier this year, an affidavit stated that Ms Gonzalez still desired having a child to her dead husband in the “near future”. She thus wanted a post-mortem sperm retrieval to be carried out.
Hawi married his high school girlfriend in 2002 and they had two sons together.
The 37-year-old was former national president of the Comanchero bikie gang. He was shot repeatedly through the driver’s side window of his black Mercedes-Benz 4WD outside Fitness First at Rockdale on February 15.
He was rushed to hospital but was pronounced dead a short time later.
Several police sources confirmed the middle-aged businessman was a “person of interest” in the case, after receiving information Hawi was possibly trying to extort $300,000 from him at the time of his death.