Staunton, who was in the Parramatta and NSW police rugby league teams, knew most of the Bandidos and some of the Comanchero from playing football against them. FORMER Kings Cross identity Bill Bayeh has been given a bond for making a threat involving a sex toy to Geoffrey Edelstens ex-wife during an ugly verbal spat recorded on a smart phone. Bill Bayeh was in 1996 sentenced to 15 years jail for heroin and cocaine dealing. I did what I did and I accept what I did. I thought "I'm going to save the world - this is great - I can be a superhero here".'. Within a day of arriving in the city he found himself in the Ifield Hotel in Fulham where the first person he met was Howard Marks, one of the most notorious drug smugglers in the world. View Bill Bayeh's profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Frank Hakim, who emigrated to Australia at the age of 20 or so, was the first prominent Lebanese criminal. Danny Karam, a nightclub bouncer who later became one of Bayeh's standover men, remembered that Bayeh was so broke in 1991 he was forced to ask him for $50. After almost a decade working in Kings Cross, the startling revelations of graft, corruption, drug dealing and prostitution are like office gossip to John. Bayeh was a major player in the Kings Cross drugs scene during the 1990s. John moved out of the Parramatta home he shared with his mother, his brothers and his sisters four years ago. They were described by a police officer at the time as the biggest drug dealers in Kings Cross. He was once asked by a music industry friend to entertain Paul and Linda McCartney for a night at the Park Hyatt Hotel when the former Beatle and his then wife Linda wanted to meet 'real people'. On his first night at Long Bay jail Staunton, who was considered at risk due to his years as a policeman, was moved from his original cell. I deserve a second chance it is the Australian way.. The Police Royal Commission and the substantial reforms that followed it stopped most corruption, making police more effective against organised criminals than in the past. BAYEH CHARGED FOR RESISTING ARREST AFTER RIPPING UP NOTE Leanne Edelsten is now an intensive care nurse at St Vincent's Hospital. ''It is clear from a number of remarks made by the sentencing judge that the sentence was intended to be punitive rather than rehabilitative,'' Judge Christie said. BACK in 1995, John Ibrahim was a brash young nightclub owner who had just come to the attention of the media when he was called before the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service. I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. It was at Baron's that Staunton impressed billionaire television mogul Kerry Packer with the hospitality he extended one evening to his visiting polo team. FORMER Kings Cross underworld identity Bill Bayeh has walked out of Sydney's Silverwater jail after serving 15 years for drug trafficking. Click on the image above to see a map of Sydney showing famous crime locations. I've never hurt anyone.'. Erin Molan defamation claim back in court, Bombshell for MP accused of child sex abuse. His friends (and there are many) call him the most wonderful person in the world. Convicted cocaine dealer Bill Bayeh and his brother Louie are old friends of the family. Many of those who came after Louis Bayeh did not last so long. Please try again later. Along the way he was called upon to keep Paul McCartney and his wife company for an evening and once shared a prison van with backpacker killer Ivan Milat. (AP) Missouri 's governor would control St. Louis police under a bill advanced . It cost me $70,000 to buy 20 per cent. FORMER Kings Cross drug czar Bill Bayeh is back in strife with the law, arrested twice in three days by police the latest for allegedly assaulting one-time model turned nurse, Leanne Edelsten. SYDNEY nightclub owner John Ibrahim was very young when he gave this first revealing interview. Please try again later. Here is an entire list of people with the Last Name El undefined. A few blocks north on Natural Bridge, a corridor that was the scene of multiple high-speed fatalities in recent years has seen speeds reduced by 9 miles an hour, Jones said citing Missouri Department of Transportation data and noting that more data was needed to see established trends. Could this really be a coincidence? In 1999 Bayeh was the subject of an attempted assassination outside a restaurant in Narwee. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. Ms Nesbitt feared for her safety and called police. JOHN Ibrahim likes to think he was destined to own a Kings Cross nightclub. ST. LOUIS - The City of St. Louis is making its largest investment in road and pedestrian safety. Accused of being part of a syndicate which virtually monopolised the drug trade in Sydneys red-light district and regularly bribed police. Its money thats all accounted for. We used to do taekwondo together. Bayeh's method was simple. You need a vibrator up your arse, Bayeh responded. Bill Bayeh was jailed for 15 years for drug trafficking in the 1990s. Kim Hollingsworth continues to risk her life to expose Eddie Gould's corruption. Bill Bayeh was jailed for 15 years for drug trafficking in the 1990s.Credit:Nick Moir. THE former king of the Kings Cross strip has returned to what he knows best: The strip club business. Don't miss out on the headlines from NSW. It's not hard to understand why. ST. LOUIS (KMOV) - St. Louis City SC spent Wednesday afternoon packing up more than 1,600 meals for Operation Food Search. After spending the previous night watching videos with friends, John is in a buoyant mood. Although wealthy, good looking and self-assured, John is, in many ways, an ineligible bachelor. Staunton had witnessed police corruption since his earliest days on the force and it was internal treachery which. 'The money, the travel and the adventure had all been thrilling. Staunton's playboy lifestyle came to a halt with his defiant appearance before the Wood Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service in June 1995. Police have attended the home of a 10-month-old baby who appeared in shocking footage sucking on and inhaling the fumes of a vape. One of those cases of stolen whisky was subsequently planted in Staunton's own car and he left the force rather than implicate anyone else. Most often he is alone because, he says, his friends are too impatient for such an unhurried pastime. 23:42 GMT 22 Jul 2019 This will not be work that we can complete overnight. According to John, the then owner was being stood over by local heavies and ripped off by his managers. So it would seem, but no, I am not, came Johns cocky reply. After a shooting in a cafe, Trevor strikes a deal with Bill Bayeh to control police raids and competition in King's Cross - Bayeh gets the "Green light" from Trevor to sell drugs, providing he does not sell to minors and there are no more drug-related shootings in the Cross. The team stuffed backpacks with meals to tide children over the weekend . Clive Small and Tom Gilling note in their book Blood Money: Back in prison Bayeh sought special treatment due to the dozen or so medications he was taking for his heart, hypertension, claustrophobia, stomach problems, hernia, sleep apnoea, memory loss, and the stress he claimed to be suffering from the number of contracts said to be out on his life.. In the mid-1960s he obtained the protection of Lennie McPherson and proceeded to provide protection himself to Lebanese and other ethnic gaming clubs. 02:50 GMT 23 Jul 2019. Friends are very overrated, he says, taking a long gulp of his coffee. These new "customers" (cops) are a bunch of noobs!To support the channel and my legal fund check out these options below:1. However, after going on a scuba trip with Ibrahim, Wendy starts to have second thoughts. He will be under as much scrutiny as anyone who runs that type of business in the Cross., Another Kings Cross detective added: We have been waiting for him to come up here when his parole conditions finished maybe for a coffee or something. But its not only police. Benny Kassab, a nightclub bouncer, quells a street brawl and earns the attention of Bill Bayeh. MAIN SOURCE: Blood Money by Clive Small and Tom Gilling; The Prince and the Premier by David Hickie. I have one drink and Im all over the place. Staunton had witnessed police corruption since his earliest days on the force and it was internal treachery which brought his career undone one night in 1987. Bayeh was wrongfully jailed for two weeks in 2012 when authorities mistakenly believed he breached parole by travelling to north Queensland. At a nearby table comedian Vince Sorrenti is shouting to a group of workmen performing noisy roadwork. Marks, known as 'Mr Nice', asked Staunton to join him at a table with Freddie Foreman, an old crook sometimes called the godfather of British crime. The Kings Cross detectives get into a confrontation with some thugs and illegally rough them up. Trevor Haken's paranoia reaches an all-new high. You just feel it. A JP had to sign the warrant necessary for a raid on suspected illegal gaming premises. In 2001 he was back in gaol for supplying heroin and cocaine and taking $180,000 - which he split with police - from brothel owners for "protection". Bill Bayeh and John Ibrahim would go on to play major roles in his life. Theres corruption going on in every section where you could do somebody a good turn or a bad turn. Staunton travelled to Atlantic City in 1989 as part of boxer Jeff 'Hitman' Harding's entourage when Harding defeated Dennis Andries for the WBC light heavyweight title. "The fatal flaw in this legislation is that it disenfranchises voters in St. Louis," Hudson said. Bayehs business partner and the venues licensee Tania Eve, who he has known for more than 30 years, was equally as vigilant on illegal behaviour, describing Love Machine as a cabaret and burlesque gentlemans club. He (the owner) was getting robbed right left and centre. He is at pains, however, to portray himself as a normal working businessman who is at a loose end during the renovation of his club. But the NSW Corrective Services Commissioner still argued against Bayeh's release yesterday. Bayeh, 56, who was portrayed in Underbelly: The Golden Mile, spent 15 years in prison for cocaine and heroin trafficking. Thats where you belong, John says. Joe Dooley leaves the King's Cross police and enrolls at Goulburn Academy. Hakim expanded his contacts among police and became a general intermediary between them and the underworld. Whilst Fowler denies he is involved in corruption, he is shown covert video footage of him accepting a bribe. Convicted drug dealer Bill Bayeh has been released on parole after 15 years in prison for heroin trafficking in Sydney's Kings Cross. Russell Townsend, described in Royal Commission evidence as an alleged drug dealer, is a friend and gym partner. Trevor Haken's alcoholism takes a toll on his marriage and his ability to manage police corruption. Their building also backs onto the street. In the first part of the interlocutory hearing, barrister Dauid Sibtain, acting for Mr Ibrahim and Pan Macmillan, said Mr Domican's answers to questions about ALP branch stacking in a 1984 BBC interview supported the inferences of criminality in his clients' book. It was one of the first of what was to become a common form of violence and intimidation by Lebanese gangsters. The Reverend Fred Nile described him in parliament as Mr Fixit, an acknowledgement of the power he had acquired through his vast range of contacts in the Lebanese community, the police force, and elsewhere. Our Spectrum News app is the most convenient way to get the stories that matter to you. He died in 2005, and over 400 people attended his funeral at Redfern. Sydneys very small. An old, sloping billiard table is the living rooms centrepiece, closed in on two sides by leather couches. Bayeh was likewise associated with the strongman Tom Domican. Neither proved to be true and he launched legal proceedings, suing for up to $750,000 in damages from the state. I knew I wanted to be in the nightclub and restaurant industry.. He was accompanied by his brother Louis as he walked past a throng of television cameras and . Like a trash TV junkie he watches the commission on television at every opportunity. Later that shift Staunton was told to drive several drunk constables to nearby Moore Park where his colleagues stormed into a toilet block wielding their truncheons at 'poofters'. The city can now start the design work on the already-completed traffic studies, get that work done by the first quarter of 2024, with construction to follow. He took charge of $23million in Montreal and ferried $1million through Turkey into Pakistan wearing spray tan and a dark wig. Sydney Crime Museum is an online history of crime in Sydney, which has often affected the lives of ordinary people and popular culture as well as corrupting the processes of policing, justice and government. During the hearing, counsel for the Commissioner, Christopher Lonergan, referred to a pre-release report by Bayeh's probation and parole officer. The claims are intended to support an argument for the defence of "contextual truth" in the event the book is found to have defamed Mr Domican, which Mr Ibrahim denies. Bayeh didnt react as he was also given a $400 fine for hindering police. Thats what I think. What Bill did was illegal and unacceptable but he has apologised and served his time and now the fact of the matter is, the two of us know the streets and this is the industry we know. Violence increased partly because of the nature of the drug trade, and partly because the degree of stability once provided in the underworld by the involvement of corrupt police largely disappeared. It would allow the governor to appoint "a special . If Mr Domican is found to be entitled to any damages, Mr Ibrahim argues they should be minimised by his "bad reputation", among other factors. We looked like Martians. Commission investigator Gerry Lloyd hires Shaka, a former lieutenant to Benny Kassab, to wear a wire to expose the corrupt police working with Bill Bayeh. After being released from jail, Bayeh initially indicated he was interested in opening a fruit shop. Staunton was born in the back of a taxi on London's Fulham Palace Road in 1958 and moved to Australia with his Irish Catholic family when he was seven. We didnt fit in. Kim Hollingsworth organises a strip show for a police charity. She is preparing a guest list for the opening of the club and is using a computer in an anteroom off Johns bedroom. I want to be left alone. When gang violence breaks out in King's Cross, John Ibrahim is placed under pressure to clean up the streets. Kim Hollingsworth's colourful past comes back to haunt her. The inmate who took his place was severely bashed by three other prisoners because Staunton's name card had been left on the outer door. Of his now-shelved fruit shop plans, he said: It didnt happen. The employees would be responsible for any charges the police laid. I came in there and cut it all out. As his drug operation grew, Bayeh and his family indulged in the good life. Mr Ibrahim alleges Mr Domican has a reputation among "members of the Australian general public over the age of 35", NSW Police and the legal community, the building industry, and the pubs and clubs industry as a violent criminal, a standover man, and an associate of underworld figures. There is not much we can do if he is running a legal business, said a police source. But for all his street savviness, Bayeh had pushed things too far. Bill Bayeh - a major character in last year's Underbelly TV series - will start a new career as a fruit and vegetable seller. Corrupt King's Cross detectives Trevor Haken and Jim Egan go too far when arresting a pack of drunks, sparking calls for a royal commission into the NSW Police. The claims are the subject of Mr Domican's part-heard interlocutory application before Justice Michael Wigney to have parts of Mr Ibrahim's and Pan Macmillan's defences struck out. I have gotten what I wanted out of the Cross. All around the world, first and second generation immigrants often form a higher proportion of criminals than of the general population. Mr Agius persisted: Isnt it the case that you and your brother have filled the gap to the extent to which Mr Bill Bayehs industry has contracted?. He faced a parole board hearing for the first time today and the board heard Bayeh has been a model prisoner. It would be easy for Bill to go the wrong way but he is doing the right thing, she said. They were assisted in this by new laws, such as those enabling them to seize assets that were the proceeds of crime, and institutions, such as the New South Wales Crime Commission (which had been created in 1986), which unlike the police can force people to give evidence. It typifies Johns blithe attitude to life. 'You Australians are a hard lot,' Trump said to him. Ten years ago Kings Cross was the only suburb open late. His establishments included the Lasers amusement parlour, Porky's strip club, the Penthouse snooker room and the Cosmopolitan cafe - most of which were used as drug distribution centres - as well as brothels and shops across the western suburbs. More like evidence of a botched Police intimidation and harassment campaign!Subscribe to my Telegram channel - https://t.. On Monday, Missouri senators held a hearing on a bill to remove some of Gardner's authority. If the police came knocking, the cashiers would pretend they were simply running an innocent entertainment business. Follow the action from the third Test between India and Australia in Delhi in our live blog. Today the War on Drugs continues to affect many lives in ways ranging from the trivial to the profound. John is still smarting from the cuff across the ears doled out by the Commission when he was hauled into the St James Centre in October to answer questions about his Kings Cross connections. Mayor Tishaura Jones . Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. The at-times vicious NSW parliament bear pit is headed for extinction, with a victorious Gladys Berejiklian vowing to clean up the chamber and apply higher standards to the states politicians; the Premiers secret campaign weapon; Labor and Liberal campaigns analysed; and, how the NSW result works in the PMs favour. Between those opposite ends of the law Staunton found himself somewhere in the middle as a private investigator and problem-solver for Sydney's underworld. Perhaps the best known gang of the late 1990s was the extremely vicious Dannys Boys, led by Danny Karam, who engaged in knee-cappings and drive-by shootings, including one of Lakemba Police Station in 1998. Walks free from Silverwater prison after minimum 15-year term for drug trafficking expires in July 2011. Danny Karam, a nightclub bouncer who later became one of Bayeh's standover men, remembered that Bayeh was so broke in 1991 he was forced to ask him for $50. 'The corrections staff had no idea at all, not a clue, and the frustrations of many a long-serving inmate were relieved.'. Aware that he is being investigated by the Wood Royal Commission, Dennis Kelly dobs in Jim Egan to investigators. On Wednesday, Mayor Tishaura Jones signed the St. Louis Safer Street bill (BB120), utilizing $40 . By Crime is an essential part of the city's history. 'I've accepted everything I've done in life. 'I've met the good, the bad, and the ugly, the famous and the infamous, and for what it's worth, there's good and bad in all of them. She also said the city was in the early stages of looking at if the city should staff a non-police traffic enforcement unit. In the course of them doing their job theyve got to stickybeak everywhere, he says. 9NEWS reports the 56-year-old reportedly became involved in a heated argument with Leanne Nesbitt, now an intensive care nurse, outside St Vincent's Hospital last night at about 6.30pm. Debbie Webb leaves King's Cross police and allies herself with her husband Greg Locke and politician John Hatton. Youve got to know whats happening. You cant not be there and see whats going on. Benny Kassab suspects that he has a rat in his ranks. Judge Terrance Christie says it was significant that the Serious Offenders Review Council supported Bayeh's release, and that it was not common for a first-time hearing. His defence claims that, in about 1997, following Bill Bayeh's arrest on drug charges, for which he was ultimately jailed for 15 years, Louis Bayeh continued to take payments for "protecting" strip clubs and other businesses in the area. Learn More. In custody from 1996, Bayeh was sentenced to 20 years in jail, with a non-parole period of 15 years, a sentence which the panel at yesterday's parole hearing agreed was at the higher end of the sentencing options. The 55-year-old sat, seemingly impassive, as his fate was decided, mumbling a barely audible ''thank you, God bless you'' as Judge Terence Christie of the NSW Parole Authority granted him parole after 15 years behind bars. In 1998, after disposing of Danny Karam, drug dealer Michael Kanaan devises a plan to murder John Ibrahim and his bodyguard, Kiwi Steve, in order to divert attention. I have always stayed away from the drugs and the gambling and prostitution. "It is to be inferred that [Mr Domican] had been retained by Louis Bayeh to intimidate [Ibrahim] in order to protect Mr Bayeh's share of the protection market in Kings Cross," documents filed by lawyers for Mr Ibrahim claim. Staunton was first stationed at inner-city Redfern where he witnessed policing practices which quickly made him question his choice of employment. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. S03:E03 - Kingdom Come . It was owned by the father of one of his friends and he lied about his age to get the job. In 1983 the Australian Federal Police tapped over 7,000 of Hakims conversations: 26 corruption investigations involving police ensued. Police were surprised to hear Bayeh was going back into business in the Cross. And when he speaks, the people around him listen. It is a thirteen-part series loosely based on real events that stemmed from the mile-long nightclub/ red light district in the Sydney suburb of Kings Cross, also known as the "Golden Mile", between 1988 and 1999. Every job I got was eventually going to lead me to where I am now. Twenty years later Staunton was locked up in a Canadian prison for his role in an international drug cartel which moved 25 tonnes of cannabis resin worth $1billion. I bumped into them on the street and we shook hands, he said with a smile. In a statement of claim filed last year, the Irish-born former political and building industry figure claims Mr Ibrahim's book implies he "was willing to be hired to kill people other than the Ibrahims"; "is a violent criminal who took part in gang wars"; conducted illegal gambling; and was involved in the supply of heroin. Ill show you how to do it, she tells John. One reason is that energetic and ambitious men who have difficulty obtaining legitimate opportunities turn to illegal ones. Staunton was adept at solving legal problems for his associates and became well-known on the Sydney nightclub and music scene. I think this place is like every other place, I dont see any difference., Of his time in prison, he said: I wasnt treated very human 15 years in jail. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. S03:E06 - Women in Uniform. Smart and casual, he exudes a faint air of wealth. Dennis Kelly fights off competition from Gerry lloyd and Sid Hillier for the role of Police Commissioner. However, Haken and Egan, along with drug dealer Bill Bayeh, set up an elaborate "sting" for their own profit. I dont need to tell anyone how I got them. On his rise as a businessman in Kings Cross, John is more forthcoming. Bill Bayeh arrested after nurse assault . It was a very different image of Bayeh from that of his heyday. While construction of those projects wont start until sometime in 2024, city officials confirmed that theyre separately looking at bringing back red light traffic camera enforcement in the nearer term and are in the early stages of exploring a non-police unit to address traffic enforcement. Some nights John goes fishing off the rocks. They should never have let you out, youre a criminal.. Judge Christie noted the Commissioner's opposition, but said the Probation and Parole Service and the Serious Offenders Review Council supported Bayeh's release. Bill Bayeh and John Ibrahim would go on to play major roles in his life. Mr Ibrahim's lawyers claim in court documents that Mr Domican, a former ALP figure, accompanied Louis Bayeh to a meeting at the Cosmopolitan Cafe in Kings Cross, where the latter allegedly told Mr Ibrahim, "Who do you think you are, trying to take over the Cross?". We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Cleverly avoiding direct involvement in violence himself, Bayeh hired a number of standover men, including Karam, a former Lebanese commando, and a group of Tongan martial arts experts to intimidate the other dealers in the Cross into leaving or agreeing to be on Bayeh's payroll. A fruit vendor gives him two nectarines for free. Bill Bayeh leaving the Wood Royal Commission after his arrest for supplying drugs.Credit:Nick Moir. I just had to waste time and plod along until I got there. Forget Melrose Place, the Royal Commission is a better soapie, he grins. Anything else was probably a waste of time. In seeming retaliation, Johns attitude on the witness stand remained one degree short of insolence. But when he's bad he's better!'. He was also filmed on 12 occasions preparing some 1500 caps of cocaine, valued at $90,000. Were working to restore it. Bayeh was a major player in the Kings Cross drugs scene during the 1990s. I paid the majority of it later. Followed categories will be added to My News. The wars over but the wars still inside the people. And that flag should be saluted any time. 2023, Charter Communications, all rights reserved. I cant sing, I cant dance. In the TAB John is asking around after his friend when he gestures to a tall skinny man and says quietly: The worst thing you can be in the Cross is a KX (a protected Commission witness) because everyone knows who you are.. Debbie Webb joins the fraud squad, but is snubbed due to her whistleblower reputation. That way you can train whoevers in your room to do it, she responds with a smile. Staunton later worked inthe Modus Operandi Unit of the Criminal Investigation Branch, with the Highway Patrol and the Tactical Response Group (TRG). I learned how to read, I learned how to write. While the club is being renovated John keeps up a fitness regimen, working out at the City Gym on Crown St more than four times a week. He asked them to force out smaller operators, including Sam Ibrahim and Russell Townsend, although it is unclear exactly how much of a role the police played in this. Various prohibitions have caused many citizens to engage in criminal behaviour over the subsequent years, most commonly illegal gambling and drinking. Mr Domican is suing Mr Ibrahim and his publisher Pan Macmillan Australia for damages in the Federal Court over his best-selling 2017 memoir, Last King of the Cross, claiming the tell-all book wrongly paints him as a hitman, violent criminal and a drug dealer. He drove a prison van to and from court for a year when the Bandido and Comanchero gangs faced trial for the 1984 Milperra massacre, at which six bikies and a teenage girl were killed. Bayeh, 56, was allegedly involved in an argument with Mr Edelsten's ex-wife Leanne Nesbitt, who is a nurse at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney. In July 1993 Bayehs Ermington home, where his children were sleeping, was the subject of a drive-by shooting. On that occasion, Bayeh was accused of tearing up a handwritten drug code when he was searched by police outside the same coffee shop. Its not money thats been laundered. Tanned, fit and small in stature, John has full lips, sleepy eyes and a subtly engaging persona. ', Staunton says loyalty means everything to him. Yet in his own surroundings, the streets of Kings Cross, John is charming. Described by a police officer at the time as the biggest drug in. Is charming I knew I wanted to be in the course of them doing job... 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