Australian racer Joey Mawson has reportedly been identified as the man accused of raping a nurse at Michael Schumacher’s house.
The prosecution alleges Mawson, 29, raped the unconscious woman twice after a cocktail party at the mansion in Gland, Switzerland, in 2019, The Sun reports.
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Mawson denies the charge, claiming their relationship was close and consensual – and that they had previously shared a kiss at a Geneva nightclub.
Mawson was once a rising star of the racing world who dreamed of F1 before his form plateaued and he returned to Australia.
He was a close friend and rival of Schumacher’s son Mick – and raced against other future racing icons such as Lando Norris and George Russell.
A trial was scheduled for this week and a one-and-a-half-page indictment was drawn up by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the District of La Côte.
But Mawson, a double champion of the Australian S5000 and currently banned from racing over a doping scandal, failed to appear in court yesterday.
In his absence, the rape trial was formally opened, but then adjourned to “a date to be fixed”.
The Sun has approached Mawson for comment.
The indictment accuses him of raping one of Schumacher’s nurses while she was unconscious following a night of vodka cocktails.
It states that she was a live-in carer for Michael Schumacher, who is believed to require around-the-clock care after his tragic skiing accident.
No member of the Schumacher family is implicated in the case.
The allegations date back to 2019, with a criminal complaint filed three years ago.
On the night of November 23, 2019, Mawson was staying at the sprawling mansion on the shores of Lake Geneva, court documents allege.
He was playing pool in the billiard room with two other members of the stricken racing icon’s staff when the alleged victim joined them after a tiring shift, the indictment states.
The nurse began to feel unwell after a few drinks and needed to lie on the floor before being taken to bed by some of her colleagues, it is claimed.
They laid the nurse down “without undressing her” and left her, asleep, with the lights on, the indictment claims.
It was shortly afterwards that the driver returned to the room and twice raped her while she was unconscious, the files allege.
Neither of the other two medics who were there that evening say they saw or heard anything, and the nurse herself woke up with no memory of the night’s events.
It is understood that the nurse decided against pursuing criminal charges or informing the Schumacher family until 2022, when she was reportedly fired from the medical team.
Bild reports Mick and Mawson haven’t been in contact for “many years” – and the Schumacher family declined to comment.
The Sun has contacted the Schumacher family’s publicist for comment.
Mawson rose up through the ranks of several junior championships in Asia and Europe, where he encountered Mick Schumacher as first a rival and then a friend.
In 2019 – at the time of the alleged rape – he competed in various cups and series, making the most appearances for Team Australia in the Porsche Supercup.
After moving back to Australia, he competed in several series of the S5000 championship, which he conquered twice in 2021 and 2022.
In the midst of the third series in 2023, he was found to have used a banned supplement and was promptly suspended.
A behind-the-scenes trial slapped him with a three-year ban running from May 2023 to May 2026.
An investigating source told The Sun that Mawson went to Gland to speak with legal officials last year about the allegations.
This story first appeared in The Sun and was republished with permission.
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