Yvette Nikolic returns home as husband’s trial adjourned

YVETTE Nikolic has sprinted through Melbourne Airport, to freedom after being found not guilty of drugs charges.

The wife of former Gold Coast horse trainer John Nikolic was the first passenger off the Virgin flight from Fiji and dashed up the elevator with Tania Hyett, the partner of Yvette’s brother-in-law, Danny Nikolic, to the airport carpark.

Yvette, who was wearing denim jeans, runners and a black hoodie, with her hair pulled back in a tight ponytail, did not make any comment.

She walked free from the Suva High Court on Monday after Justice Daniel Goundar handed down his decision that she had “no case to answer”.

The drug smuggling case against John Nikolic was adjourned yesterday until the end of the month for summation.

Nikolic, who is charged with drug importation, drug possession and weapons offences, will not present a defence and the prosecution has chosen not to make closing submissions, meaning the trial will come to a close when Justice Goundar sums up at on February 28.

If found guilty, Nikolic will then be sentenced.