Mick Hawi’s wife to appear in court over extracted sperm

THE widow of a bikie who was gunned down outside a Sydney gym had his sperm extracted after he died. But now faces a battle to use it.

A COURT battle looms over whether a former bikie boss’s widow can use her slain husband’s sperm — which was extracted shortly after his death.

Ex-Comanchero Motorcycle Club president Mahmoud “Mick” Hawi was gunned down outside a Rockdale gym in Sydney’s south last month.

A urologist was authorised to perform a “posthumous sperm retrieval” after Hawi’s wife Carolina Gonzales made an urgent application in the NSW Supreme Court.

Ms Gonzales’ legal fight to use the sperm to have another child will begin today, as the bid is due to be mentioned in a Sydney court today.

The sperm was extracted in the presence of police and taken to a storage facility, according to Justice Peter Johnson, where it will be held “pending a future application to the Supreme Court for the use of the sample”.

Mick Hawi with wife Carolina in a 2015 picture posted to Facebook. Picture: Supplied

Mick Hawi’s wife Carolina Gonzalez at a Comanchero Christmas party cruise on Sydney Harbour. Picture: Supplied

The case is listed for directions in the Supreme Court in Sydney on Monday. Hawi married his high school girlfriend in 2002 and although they already have two sons together, Justice Johnson noted that Ms Gonzales “desired, and still desires, to have a child from the deceased in the near future”. Police are still hunting for Hawi’s killers.

She was granted permission to posthumously extract the sperm just 24 hours after Hawi was gunned down on February 15 in a surprise attack at a suburban gym, Fairfax News reported.

Ms Gonzales submitted the application to the NSW Supreme Court the day after Hawi went into cardiac arrest and later died from being shot in the face at Rockdale’s Fitness First.

Under a heavy police presence, hundreds of mourners arrived at Hawi’s funeral two weeks ago in a fleet of luxury vehicles.

Mourner's leave after the funeral of Mahmoud 'Mick' Hawi at the Fatima Al-Zahra Masjid (mosque) in Arncliffe, Sydney. Picture: AAP Image.

The funeral, held in the southern Sydney suburb of Arncliffe, was heavily monitored by police, who took photographs of every man, woman and child who arrived for the service.

A mosque official told news.com.au that he had not seen the gang members enter the mosque on a previous occasion, and that they were “from a different world”.

Of Hawi’s violent death the official said, “it’s sad that he was killed, but if you play with fire that’s what you get”.

The couple, who married in 2002, had two children before he was jailed over the 2009 Sydney Airport bikie brawl and then released on appeal in 2015.

Ms Gonzalez declared her love for her slain husband in a series of heartbreaking messages. She wrote on Facebook of her husband’s “beautiful heart” and asked for “prayers for his beautiful soul”.

In another message posted recently, she wrote: “Only I, his close friends and family know how truly beautiful his heart was.”

Hawi’s funeral. Picture: Jeremy Piper

Hawi was shot dead. Source: AAP

Hawi was shot multiple times while he sat in his luxury Mercedes 4WD outside the Fitness First gym in Rockdale.

He died in St George Hospital that night, aged 37.

Police are still hunting his killers, who were captured on CCTV fleeing the scene.