Former Comancheros boss Mick Hawi won’t face murder retrial after guilty plea to manslaughter

Amy Dale Chief Court Reporter
The Daily Telegraph
September 05, 2014 11:09AM

Mick Hawi, pictured with his lawyer after an earlier hearing, has pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter. Picture Craig Greenhill

FORMER bikie boss Mick Hawi has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a man bashed and stabbed to death during the 2009 Sydney Airport brawl.

Prosecutors indicated in the Supreme Court today that they would accept the plea to the lesser charge, after an appeals court quashed the Comanchero figure’s murder conviction earlier this year.

Hawi was granted strict $700,000 conditional bail in June, pending an expected retrial.

Anthony Zervas, the brother of Hells Angels member Pete gangs in the domestic terminal at Sydney Airport.r, was stabbed several times and struck with a metal bollard during the brawl between the warring gangs in the domestic terminal at Sydney Airport.

The now 34-year-old was president of the Sydney chapter of the Comancheros at the time of the brawl.

Hawi was convicted of murder in late 2011 after a nine-month trial and was the only one of several co-accused to be convicted of the most serious charge.

The Court of Criminal Appeal granted a retrial after Chief Justice Tom Bathurst found he couldn’t be satisfied it was Hawi who “inflicted the fatal blows to the head of Mr Zervas using a bollard”.

During the monthly Supreme Court arraignments this morning, Hawi entered a guilty plea to manslaughter.

He remains on bail pending sentencing.

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