Australian Racing Driver Joey Mawson Faces Rape Trial Linked To Schumacher Family Home

Content warning: This article contains discussion of sexual assault allegations.
Joey Mawson, a 30-year-old Australian racing driver, has appeared in a Swiss court to face rape charges involving a nurse employed at the Schumacher family estate.
The alleged incident took place in 2019 at the Schumacher mansion in Gland, near Geneva, where Mawson had been staying as a guest.
Mawson previously raced alongside Mick Schumacher in European F3, and the two were team-mates at Van Amersfoort Racing and title rivals in the 2016 ADAC F4 championship.
His friendship with Mick Schumacher allowed him to stay at the family estate on multiple occasions, placing him at the property around the time of the alleged assault.
The unnamed nurse worked as part of the medical team providing on-site care to seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher, who suffered a severe head injury in a skiing accident in 2013.
The court heard the alleged victim woke up in an upstairs bedroom of the mansion lying on blood-stained sheets, reportedly unable to recall the events of the previous night.
The nurse told the court she had been informed by a colleague that she was heavily intoxicated and was carried to her room by staff after joining Mawson and others for drinks following her shift.
Mawson is accused of entering the bedroom and committing two counts of rape, charges he denies, claiming instead that he had a consensual relationship with the woman.
Mawson was quoted by the Daily Mail as telling the court: “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.”
He also told the court: “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.”
Court documents state the nurse was found to have injuries consistent with being restrained by force, following a medical examination conducted after the alleged rapes.
Mawson told the court that after learning of the nurse’s allegations, he sent her a series of apologetic text messages, describing it as the gentlemanly thing to do, including one that read: “I’m so sorry from the bottom of my heart.”
Prosecutor Xavier Christe noted discrepancies between Mawson’s trial testimony and earlier statements provided to investigators, particularly questioning his claims of memory loss given his detailed recollection of other events that evening.
The nurse’s lawyer, Patrick Michod, described his client as “a brilliant professional who was outstanding in her job,” saying she had become part of the Schumacher family’s “inner circle of trust” over six years of employment.
Michod also raised questions about the nurse’s dismissal in 2020, describing it as a “brutal dismissal” and questioning the official reason given for her termination.
No members of the Schumacher family were implicated in the case, and none were listed as witnesses at the Nyon District Court proceedings.
Mawson had initially failed to appear when the trial was first opened in October 2025, with the case adjourned after he was reported missing, before proceedings eventually resumed with both parties present.
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