A Sydney man has been found not guilty of causing his wife’s death in a buggy crash while on their honeymoon on a popular Queensland island.
Robbie Awad was charged over the death of his new bride, 29-year-old Marina Hanna, during their honeymoon on Hamilton Island in June 2022.
The pair were in a buggy, one of the island’s main modes of transport for tourists, which crashed and overturned on Whitsunday Blvd.
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Hanna sustained critical injuries and was declared dead at the scene.
The pair had been married in Sydney only 10 days earlier.
In the days after the crash, Awad said his world had been “shattered”.
“My heart is broken, and my world shattered with the tragic loss of the most beautiful girl in the world … my angel … my saint … my wife Marina Hanna,” he said in a social media post at the time.
Award, who was 30 at the time of the crash, had pleaded not guilty to driving without due care and attention causing death.
A hearing which started before Magistrate Kerrie O’Callaghan in Prosperine Magistrate’s Court on Thursday was originally listed to run for four days but was over in just one.
