Slain bikie Mick Hawi’s widow permitted to extract sperm
Mick Hawi’s widow was allowed to extract sperm hours after he was gunned down it has emerged, as mourners gathered for his funeral today.
As hundreds of mourners arrived at a Sydney mosque for the funeral of slain bikie boss Mick Hawi, it’s been revealed his widow, Carolina Gonzales, made an urgent application in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday for a “posthumous sperm retrieval” which was authorised by a judge.
Justice Peter Johnson, in a judgment made public on Wednesday afternoon, said Ms Gonzales “desired, and still desires, to have a child from the deceased in the near future”.
Hawi married his high school girlfriend in 2002 and the pair had two sons together.
Many mourners were seen wearing black T-shirts with a photograph of their former leader printed on the back.
Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars delivered friends and family to the Al-Zahra mosque in Arncliffe on Thursday as uniformed and plain clothes police patrolled the surrounding streets.
Women in black hijabs gathered alongside heavily tattooed and stony-faced men before they silently filtered into the mosque.
Just after 1pm, more than 20 men, all dressed in black, arrived in three white limousines ahead of afternoon prayers.
One man held a framed picture of Hawi against his chest as he led the silent entourage into the mosque.
Hawi, 37, died last Thursday some five hours after he was gunned down outside a gym in Rockdale in Sydney’s south.
As national president of the Comanchero motorcycle club, Hawi was imprisoned over the 2009 bashing death of Hell’s Angels associate Anthony Zervas in a wild brawl at Sydney Airport.
He was released in 2015 and mainly flew under the radar until he was murdered a week ago.
His body will be taken from Arncliffe’s Al-Zahra mosque after prayers to be buried at Rookwood cemetery in the afternoon.
Police are still hunting for Hawi’s killers.
AAP
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