Wayne Cooper: Courtroom victory for dressmaker as he is discovered not responsible of assaulting his estranged spouse ‘as she did the laundry’

Clothier Wayne Cooper has been discovered not responsible of two counts of home violence in direction of his estranged spouse Sarah Marsh.

Justice of the Peace Emma Manea discovered Cooper not responsible in a listening to at Waverley Native Courtroom, in Sydney‘s jap suburbs on Friday.

The Justice of the Peace stated she doubted Marsh’s reliability and model of occasions when the one-time mannequin claimed he allegedly assaulted her twice in 2015 and 2016 respectively.

At a listening to, Ms Marsh, Cooper’s spouse of 14 years, advised the court docket she was doing the laundry when Cooper allegedly tossed the garments into the pool, grabbed her by each arms and shoved her towards a glass door at their Tamarama residence in December 2015.

‘I used to be terrified of what was going to occur subsequent,’ she stated.

Clothier Wayne Cooper (above) is accused of assaulting his ex-wife and former mannequin Sarah Marsh. Above, he seems at Waverley Native Courtroom in Sydney’s east on Friday

Ms Marsh (above) alleged in court docket Cooper grabbed her by each arms and shoved her towards a glass door in 2015

Testifying in court docket by way of video hyperlink from a witness room, Ms Marsh claimed she developed bruises and scratches from the alleged laundry incident. 

Lower than a 12 months later, Cooper was accused of allegedly assaulting Ms Marsh throughout an argument the place he threw a toy bear at her within the former couple’s bed room.

Ms Marsh stated she began recording a video to try to deter Cooper. That recording – introduced in court docket – featured a bitter, expletive-ridden row between the pair.

‘You are always calling me a c***, always calling me names – I’m sick of it’ Cooper is heard telling his spouse. 

Cooper’s barrister, Hugh White, claimed the designer was required to take ‘cheap power’ to cease the telephone from coming into contact with him.

Ms Marsh claimed her husband had moved out his belongings from the room and he or she ultimately put in a lock on the door.

‘I had a lock on the room so I used to be capable of lock myself in,’ she advised the court docket. ‘That was my protected place.’

Cooper and Ms Marsh had been married for 14 years (pictured, Wayne Cooper together with his estranged spouse Sarah Marsh in 2011)

Taking to the witness field, Cooper denied ever getting bodily together with his spouse, telling Justice of the Peace Manea he had been provoked.

‘That by no means occurred, I by no means struck my spouse.’ he stated.

The costs got here some 18 months after Cooper furiously denied he and Marsh had ended their 25-year relationship. 

Cooper rose to notoriety within the 90s with trend labels Courageous, Wayne Cooper and Wayne.

His garments had been as soon as offered at two boutiques in Melbourne and are actually out there at Myer department shops.

Cooper’s Australian Trend Week exhibits have featured fashions together with Linda Evangelista, Eva Herzigova and Sarah O’Hare (now Murdoch) and he was a daily visitor on the truth TV sequence Australia’s Subsequent Prime Mannequin.

Cooper and Marsh’s relationship has come earlier than a court docket earlier than.  

Cooper was positioned on a two-year good behaviour bond in December 2008 after pleading responsible to assaulting Marsh simply days after she had most cancers surgical procedure.