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Joey Mawson, an Australian racing driver, has denied raping a nurse at Michael Schumacher’s home in Gland, Switzerland, on November 23, 2019. The nurse, who claims the incidents occurred after becoming intoxicated, reported the alleged assault to authorities in 2021.
The trial of Joey Mawson is ongoing at the court in Nyon, Switzerland, where both prosecution and defence have presented their cases regarding the 2019 allegations. The nurse, who had worked for the Schumacher family for six years, did not report the incident until 2021, fearing for her job following the alleged attack.
Joey Mawson has denied the allegations against him, claiming the sexual encounter was consensual and asserting that he was not aware of his own level of intoxication at the time. The Schumacher family has chosen not to comment on the case, with no representatives present during the court proceedings.
What remains unclear — It is uncertain why the nurse did not report the alleged attack until two years later in 2021.
Australian racing driver denies raping nurse at Michael Schumacher’s mansion
A racing driver has denied raping a nurse caring for Michael Schumacher at the Formula One legend’s home.
Mawson, a friend of the German racing driver’s son, is accused of raping the nurse twice in a bedroom at the 57-year-old’s mansion in Gland, near Geneva, on November 23, 2019.
The Australian racing driver, who told the judge his career is ‘on hold’, denies the allegations and has claimed that the sex was consensual.
The court in Nyon, Switzerland heard how the nurse, in her 30s, was carried to her quarters fully clothed after becoming intoxicated with vodka-based cocktails playing pool at Schumacher’s home.
When the nurse woke up, she says she was naked and allegedly could not remember what had happened the night before.
Joey Mawson is on trial for the alleged rape (Picture: Formula One)
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She then spotted blood on her bedsheets and felt pain in her vaginal and anal areas.
She broke down in tears as she recounted the alleged attack in court. She said: ‘I had worked for the family for six years and that night I had been working six days non stop. I was very tired and I had had nothing to eat.
‘When I later asked Joey if anything had happened that night, he said “Yes”. I contacted my doctor and I was then referred to another doctor at the university hospital.
‘I didn’t immediately tell the Schumacher family what had happened. I couldn’t remember anything from the night, I had to ask one of the other staff at the house.
‘They said I was drunk and that Joey had carried me to my room, I woke up naked and when I first contacted Joey to ask him if anything had happened he said “No” but then later said “Yes”.’
Joey Mawson (L) and Mick Schumacher (R) have raced eachother dozens of times becoming friends (Picture: Pixathlon/Shutterstock)
Michael Schumacher has been receiving round-the-clock care after suffering a severe traumatic brain injury in a skiing accident in December 2013. (Picture: Getty)
Prosecution read out text messages that Mawson had sent the nurse, after the alleged attack, which said: ‘I’m so sorry from the bottom of my heart.’
Mawson has admitted a ‘consensual relationship’ with the woman, and claims to have text messages to back that up.
In his testimony Mawson insisted that the nurse had been ‘flirtatious’ and had instigated kissing and that they had ‘touched each other’s genitals’.
He added: ‘She was not intoxicated, she was alert and conscious, she was flirting and she managed to get her leg on the pool table.
‘You could see from her body language she was being flirtatious. I knocked on her room and she invited me in.’
He added: ‘I hadn’t realised how drunk I actually was. It wasn’t until the next morning that I realised how drunk I had been.
‘During the night, I had assumed she was less drunk than I realised the next morning.’
Mawson told the court that the nurse had been ‘flirtatious’ and had instigated kissing and that they had ‘touched each other’s genitals’.
He added: ‘She was not intoxicated, she was alert and conscious, she was flirting and she managed to get her leg on the pool table.
‘You could see from her body language she was being flirtatious. I knocked on her room and she invited me in.’
Who is Joey Mawson?
Joey Mawson rose through the racing ranks and competing in several junior championships.
The Australian of Peruvian descent is a double champion of the Australian S5000 Championship.
He regularly competed against his friend Mick Schumacher in the MRF Challenge series, even snatching a title off him.
But he was banned from all racing for three years until 2026 after he was found to have taken a banned substance.
He blamed his girlfriend for recommending the drug Mildronate calling the period ‘the darkest hours, days and months of my life.
‘A living nightmare I couldn’t wake up from for months on end’, he said.
The 29-year-old has already completed more than two-years of the ban and wishes to return to racing, as he apologised for his mistake.
‘I love racing, my passion won’t go away. I miss it everyday so I do hope I can be back in the seat someday’, he said.
In fear of losing her job with the Schumachers, she reported the attack two years later in 2021.
The Schumacher family are not named at all and have not been invited to comment on the case.
No-one from the family was present at the time of the alleged sex attack, according to prosecutors.
The Formula One legend’s health has been shrouded in secrecy ever since his skiing accident in December 2013.
He has not appeared in public since, and his family have protected his privacy at their Lake Geneva home.
But Felix Gorner, a reporter for German broadcaster RTL, revealed Schumacher ‘can no longer communicate verbally’.
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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