After a testy time in the witness box, Gemma Wright, the partner of struck-off nose surgeon William Mooney, donned a black motorbike helmet and made for a waiting Vespa.
After a testy time in the witness box, Gemma Wright, the partner of struck-off nose surgeon William Mooney, donned a black motorbike helmet and made a dramatic dash from a Sydney court complex onto the back of a waiting Vespa.
A major stumbling block for the 56-year-old is his arrest last year after being nabbed buying a $300 bag of cocaine from a dealer who drove to his Bondi apartment to deliver the drugs.Constable George Constantinou told the tribunal he and other officers witnessed Mooney getting out of a grey Corolla in Beach Road, Bondi, on the night of October 22, 2022. After identifying himself as a police officer, he said he saw Mooney throwing something behind his back into the gutter.
However, in a testy exchange with the Medical Council’s barrister Kate Richardson, SC, Wright said she couldn’t recall what she’d said on the night as she had panicked.When the matter came to Waverley Court in December, Mooney pleaded guilty to possession but escaped conviction when he said the drugs were Wright’s and that he was only collecting the bag of coke because he was concerned for her safety.
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