The Snitch: Did bikie boss Mick Hawi’s fears for troubled son come to fruition?

Are a bikie boss’s fears about his family coming to fruition? Why is it a new dawn for the DPP? And which troubled Sydney identity has had a bad start to 2025? The Snitch is here.

Anti-Israel graffiti on the windows of Chiswick Restaurant in Woollahra. Picture: Tim Hunter

Before his execution, bikie boss Mick Hawi had a series of light bulb moments where he feared his life choices would damage his family and send his children off the rails.

It appears those concerns might be coming to fruition.

Police revealed this week they had charged the ex-Comanchero national president’s eldest son, Adam, over allegations he was involved in an anti-Semitic attack at Matt Moran’s Woollahra restaurant, Chiswick, last November.

That is not the only trouble the 21-year-old is facing.

Just before Christmas, Adam was given a June hearing date in Sutherland Local Court where he is to answer to 17 domestic violence related charges, including assault occasioning actual bodily harm, stalking and damaging property.

Hawi Senior’s life was defined by two of the most disturbingly public deaths in Sydney’s history.

Police photo of Mick Hawi after the 2009 Sydney Airport killing.

Adam Hawi. Picture: Toby Zerna

The first was the 2009 Sydney Airport brawl where a Hells Angels’ bikie was beaten to death in front of shocked travellers.

The second was his own death in February 2018 when a masked assassin shot Hawi through the window of his luxury 4WD as he was leaving a southern Sydney gym.

It’s a safe bet to say these incidents impacted Adam.

Mick Hawi and wife Carolina Gonzalez.

But while researching a deep dive into Hawi’s life, Snitch became aware that the bikie had a number of significant eureka moments as to how his life choices could impact his young family.

One came after Hawi spent nine months in solitary confinement over the airport murder.

In 2012, he told a psychologist he was anxious about not being able to support his sons while in jail and how his incarceration would impact the family dynamic.

Hawi reflected on “his love for his family” and said “I spend my whole time speaking to them and my children” when not confined to his cell.

“It destroyed me,” Hawi said.

In 2008 – when Adam was five-years-old – Hawi began to feel the tension between his roles as a father and a bikie gang leader.

At the request of his wife, Caroline Gonzales, he started to distance himself from the Comancheros to “live a fathers’ life”.

NEW DAWN

Tomorrow is the dawn of a new era for the state’s prosecuting lawyers when they move into their new state-of-the-art offices across town.

However, all eyes are on how things will go with the ODPP’s new egalitarian approach with barristers and solicitors all sitting together.

Previously, the Crown Prosecutors had their own floor in their Liverpool St headquarters while the solicitors were in the cheap seats downstairs.

An artists impression of Parkline Place, Sydney, the new home of the ODPP.

Known as Parkline, the newly -constructed building is at the corner of Park and Castlereagh streets, almost equidistant between the Supreme Court and the Downing Centre Court complex.

The building’s website said it was designed as “a healthy workplace” with “mindfulness”, “personal health” and “fitness” services as well as “purified air”, “acoustic comfort” and “light flooded” floors.

So we’ll see if this will keep them out of the Civic Hotel.

BAD START

The new year hasn’t brought a clean slate for troubled Sydney accountant Filomina Kyriacou.

The Commonwealth Bank has made a move to bankrupt her by lodging an application in the Federal Court of Australia on January 17.

It continues a troubling run of outs for Ms Kyriacou.

Filomina Kyriacou.

Adam Cranston.

Last year, Ms Kyriacou and her southern Sydney accountancy firm, Wentworth Williams, were repeatedly mentioned in court as being linked to two of the country’s biggest tax fraudsters.

They were the cases of Adam Cranston and George Alex, who were found guilty of pinching $110 million and $10 million respectively from the tax office.

Ms Kyriacou and her firm were not accused of wrongdoing in those cases.

She is also being sued in the Supreme Court by the CBA over a $779,000 loan the bank claims has gone unpaid.

Late last year, Justice Nicholas Chen rejected Ms Kyriacou’s application where she submitted that she was “not mentally fit to stand trial”.