Comanchero president Mahmoud "Mick" Hawi Supreme Court ordered they give him back a pair of blood-covered running shoes.

Comancharo president Mahmoud "Mick" Hawi Supreme Court ordered they give him back a pair of blood-covered running shoes.
The footwear was seized in a raid on his two-storey Bexley home in September 2007 after Hawi, 28, was charged with malicious wounding over an alleged glass attack on a 22-year-old female English tourist in the Sapphire Suite night club in Kings Cross.
Detectives found the shoes in the laundry while searching for clues to the attack, court documents reveal.But there was a twist to the case. DNA tests found the blood on the runners was not that of the female tourist but of a male. His identity, the reason that he was bleeding and how the blood found its way onto Hawi's runners remain a mystery.The case against Hawi was dismissed in the Downing Centre Local Court by a magistrate not only because the blood was that of a man, but the woman declined to travel from Britain to give evidence.Hawi's solicitor Lesly Randle then applied, and was granted, an order from the magistrate for the runners to be returned - a decision that police resisted in an appeal in the Supreme Court last year.But Justice Adams found that, even though police said Hawi was the head of the Comanchero, which they labelled a criminal organisation, they had no right to retain the shoes as they had no way of knowing if a crime had been committed.
Despite having to hand the shoes back, police have retained photographs of the blood-spattered runners and have placed the blood samples in the DNA data bank. Police have appealed for anyone with information about the blood to contact Kings Cross detectives.
On Thursday, Hawi's Bexley home was raided a second time by police. This time it was the turn of detectives from Strike Force Raptor, formed to investigate the deadly confrontation at Sydney Airport between Comanchero and Hells Angels gang members two weeks ago.