Designer Wayne Cooper Pleads Guilty To Assault

Fashion man Wayne Cooper has admitted he shoved his wife, who had just undergone surgery for bladder cancer, and was today given a good behaviour bond in Waverly Local Court.

Fashion designer Wayne Cooper has been placed on a two-year good behaviour bond for pushing his estranged wife Sarah Marsh during a domestic dispute.

Cooper, 45, today pleaded guilty to common assault stemming from an argument on June 19 at the couple’s beachside home in Tamarama, in Sydney’s east.

Earlier, police prosecutor Sergeant Leesa McEvoy told the court Cooper pushed Ms Marsh during an argument over finances two weeks after she left hospital for gall bladder cancer surgery.

“This is not a matter that is trivial. It does involve domestic violence,” Sgt McEvoy told the court. “Mr Cooper knew his partner had undergone surgery … he was aware of that, your honour.”

Hmmm. Shoving someone who’d recently had surgery for cancer sounds like a pretty inexcusable thing to do. What was Wayne’s reasoning?

Cooper’s barrister Ian McClintock said his client was mimicking Ms Marsh when he pushed her, after she asked him how he could have allegedly pushed her on an earlier holiday.

OH! He was just pushing her for old time’s sake! Makes perfect sense.

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