Frank Hakim, who emigrated to Australia at the age of 20 or so, was the first prominent Lebanese criminal. Hakim got him a job as debt collector with Lennie McPherson, and Bayeh went on to open a gaming club at West Ryde with Hakims approval and then became a major standover man and Kings Cross drug dealer for many years. From the Earl Place door to the Tunnel nightclub John can wave at the Kings Cross detectives. "I just want to make a living like everybody else," said Bayeh. He was shot three times but survived. 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'. Then the tapes and video footage played in the Wood Royal Commission effectively put Bayeh away. This resulted in the outbreak of a minor ''gang war'', culminating in the 1993 shooting of his brother Louis Bayeh by a rival dealer. Bayeh, who now lives in the Sydney CBD with his 35-year-old fiance Leyla Yavuz, wants it known that he has no grudge against the two men mainly responsible for his very public demise and eventual jailing, Royal Commissioner James Wood and Council Assisting the Royal Commission John Agius. Hakim expanded his contacts among police and became a general intermediary between them and the underworld. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. For more information please click here. Smart and casual, he exudes a faint air of wealth. New South Wales Corrective Services Commissioner Ron Woodham opposed Bayeh's parole, saying he was just presenting a facade as a naive man. But eventually he saw the writing on the wall, pleading guilty in November 1998 to charges of conspiring to supply commercial quantities of heroin and cocaine between December 1, 1995, and July 24, 1996. In a recorded interview, Bayeh admitted to a confrontation but denied pushing her or saying anything about a vibrator or dildo. Forget Melrose Place, the Royal Commission is a better soapie, he grins. Kim Hollingsworth organises a strip show for a police charity. Wanting more from life than a nine to five job he joined the NSW Police Force in 1978 when he was 19. BAYEH CHARGED FOR RESISTING ARREST AFTER RIPPING UP NOTE Leanne Edelsten is now an intensive care nurse at St Vincent's Hospital. The band supports a small triangular leather pouch, inside of which is family shit. John, it seems, is inclined to oversimplify the details of his existence. Later John confides: All these people, weve been together since we had nothing. He was shot three times but survived. ST. LOUISOn the heels of one of the most deadly years for traffic in the history of the city of St. Louis and a weekend that saw five people killed in a pair of traffic accidents, Mayor Tishaura Jones on Wednesday signed a board bill that commits to spending at least $40 million in federal funds on traffic calming and street redesign measures. At a nearby table comedian Vince Sorrenti is shouting to a group of workmen performing noisy roadwork. He is vehement when he says he does not deal drugs. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. His sentencing was adjourned so psychiatric evidence can be gathered. Bayeh was wrongfully jailed for two weeks in 2012 when authorities mistakenly believed he breached parole by travelling to north Queensland. But the parole authority agreed to release him anyway, saying his 15-year sentence was lengthy compared to crimes of a similar nature. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. 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. Bill Bayeh and John Ibrahim would go on to play major roles in his life. The Republican-led House on Wednesday gave initial approval to the legislation. Sometimes when we finish work at three or four in the morning and weve still got too much energy to burn we bring a change of clothes, get changed and we come down to the gym and have a workout, he says. He asks Haken to do something about it because I aint making nothing. John moved out of the Parramatta home he shared with his mother, his brothers and his sisters four years ago. It cost me $70,000 to buy 20 per cent. He was recorded instructing one of his standover men to tell a fellow drug dealer, Russell Townsend, that he ''cannot sell the nose thing any more and if he will not he will get a beating'' and warning another that there would be ''big bang bang soon''. We have already seen with Robert Trimbole an example of how the Italian mafia came to Australia. I went back home for three days (last year) with Charlie Staunton. 'Before I'd taken the job with Bram, I'd investigated the possible penalties,' he writes. I'd know the stakes and reaped the rewards. John is reticent to discuss the fight that left him hospitalised for three months with a stab wound in the stomach. Staunton writes of helping solve problems for drug dealers Bill Bayeh, who distributed cocaine and heroin in Kings Cross, and international trafficker Bruce 'Snapper' Cornwell. Bill and Louis Bayeh fight off threats to their drug dealing empire. Speaking outside the hearing, one of Bayeh's other brothers said he was pleased at the result. I knew I wanted to be in the nightclub and restaurant industry.. We were supposed to be there a week but we couldnt stand it so we left after three days. The sun is shining and John is sparkling with good humour. Youve got to know whats happening. I didnt want to be there at one stage.. Among Staunton's close friends was John Ibrahim, with whom he travelled to England, Austria and Lebanon on one trip. Weve got so many favours owing to us weve lost count.. Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. 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 have always stayed away from the drugs and the gambling and prostitution. 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. It didnt end well. In order to stake his claim to power in King's Cross, Danny "DK" Karam hires a group of young thugs. John has only been to his parents country of birth, Lebanon, once. 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". When it reopens on Thursday it will have a new image and a new name: Earl Place 1. Youll find we are very boring. Former Kings Cross underworld figure and convicted drug dealer Bill Bayeh is to be released on parole. 'I'm not running from anything I've done. It would allow the governor to appoint "a special . 'There was no point in complaining about my sentence. 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. 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. Not long afterwards John dropped out of school. St. Louis police gather at the scene of a shooting in the 1800 block of Cass Avenue on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022, where police say a man was shot in the chest. The legislation authorizes more than $40 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to pay for traffic calming and street redesign. Bayeh also paid off a number of corrupt Kings Cross detectives, including the former detective Trevor Haken, who later rolled over and gave evidence in the Wood Royal Commission. In 1999 Bayeh was the subject of an attempted assassination outside a restaurant in Narwee. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Soon, Kassab becomes Bayeh's "fall guy", holding the money and drugs from Bill's deals. In 1988, a young, skinny boy named John Ibrahim from the outer-suburbs arrives in King's Cross to seek his fortune after being expelled from school, which results in a chance meeting with Sydney crime boss George Freeman. 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. Russell Townsend, described in Royal Commission evidence as an alleged drug dealer, is a friend and gym partner. Ive got the best education money could buy. The relationship with Bill Bayeh was severed on the day John appeared before the Commission and heard a conversation between supergrass Trevor Haken and Bayeh, taped at Birkenhead Point Tavern in December 1994. In 1983 the Australian Federal Police tapped over 7,000 of Hakims conversations: 26 corruption investigations involving police ensued. Trevor Haken's alcoholism takes a toll on his marriage and his ability to manage police corruption. Walks free from Silverwater prison after minimum 15-year term for drug trafficking expires in July 2011. Believe it or not I did very well at school but it just wasnt for me. Don't miss out on the headlines from NSW. But when he's bad he's better!'. I just want to get on with my life, he said. As a member of the TRG he sustained permanent injury during a pitched battle with louts during the so-called Bathurst Riots at the 1985 Motorcycle Grand Prix. They should never have let you out, youre a criminal.. Infrastructure work is very complicated. Johns club The Tunnel is still in chaos after more than a month of renovations but he remains optimistic. 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. 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'. But the NSW Corrective Services Commissioner still argued against Bayeh's release yesterday. Staunton was sentenced to nine and a half years and served three in Canadian prisons where French was spoken more widely than English. 'The corrections staff had no idea at all, not a clue, and the frustrations of many a long-serving inmate were relieved.'. He describes winning almost $100,000 at Randwick one day and how he and Bill Bayeh turned over millions of dollars a year with a bookmaker. The hearing has been adjourned to May 14. No one really knew that I didnt know what I was doing, except me.. Impressed by Ibrahim, Freeman offers him a job as a bouncer. Please try again later. Crime is an essential part of the city's history. Dennis Kelly fights off competition from Gerry lloyd and Sid Hillier for the role of Police Commissioner. And that flag should be saluted any time. An old, sloping billiard table is the living rooms centrepiece, closed in on two sides by leather couches. Having obtained the HSC via correspondence, she enrolls in a detective's course at Goulburn Police Academy. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. THE former king of the Kings Cross strip has returned to what he knows best: The strip club business. 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. He paid police to protect at least 24 gaming clubs and often entertained police officers. However, he appeared quite street-savvy and capable of verbal manipulation at all levels.''. Convicted cocaine dealer Bill Bayeh and his brother Louie are old friends of the family. I want to move on with my life. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. I bluffed well for a long time when I was 18. Get hyperlocal forecasts, radar and weather alerts. Today the War on Drugs continues to affect many lives in ways ranging from the trivial to the profound. In seeming retaliation, Johns attitude on the witness stand remained one degree short of insolence. Young waitress Kim Hollingsworth turns to prostitution after she discovers her abusive boyfriend Trent has stolen money from her. Later that year Detective Inspector Tony Lauer led a raid on Hakims Redfern office and found just over a gram of heroin on Hakims person. His principal once told him he would wind up dead or very rich. Wrongfully jailed for two weeks in 2012 when authorities mistakenly believed he breached parole by travelling to north Queensland. Traffic violence tears families and communities apart and to those who say that they feel scared on our roads: I hear you, Jones said. Parents in our city, like myself, are asking ourselves, how can we teach our teenagers how to drive in a city where the rules of the road can feel more like suggestions. /news/article/bill-bayeh-arrested-after-nurse-assault/l48mi2g48 Aldermanic Board President Megan Green said traffic education and enforcement would be a priority for the next session of the Board when new members are seated after the April elections. Bill Bayeh leaving the Wood Royal Commission after his arrest for supplying drugs. 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. At 15 John was stabbed during a brawl in the Cross. The Independent Commission Against Corruption rejected the claim, and Bob Bottom pointed out at the time that the detectives accused by Hakim were in the vanguard of anti-corruption efforts. 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. Tom Domican, left, is suing John Ibrahim for defamation. Bill Bayeh was jailed for 15 years for drug trafficking in the 1990s.Nick Moir The court heard Mr Domican accompanied Mr Bayeh, who has since served 15 years in prison for drug trafficking, around the area and "regularly stood outside" the premises where Bayeh's business dealings took place. Ive never sold drugs. 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. Staunton had been secretly recorded handing money to the corrupt cop Trevor Haken on behalf of Bayeh and spent the next 11 and a half months in prison. Trevor Haken's alcoholism takes a toll on his marriage and his ability to manage police corruption. If they dont salute, they are a bastard they no good soldier at all. 2015 Sydney Crime Museum. Not content with his position, Kassab begins distributing drugs secretly. There was not much point in me going to school. It turned out McPherson already had a direct relationship with the club, and sent a group of men to throw the new machines into the street. 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. Judge Christie noted the Commissioner's opposition, but said the Probation and Parole Service and the Serious Offenders Review Council supported Bayeh's release. Neither proved to be true and he launched legal proceedings, suing for up to $750,000 in damages from the state. Our Spectrum News app is the most convenient way to get the stories that matter to you. On Wednesday, Mayor Tishaura Jones signed the St. Louis Safer Street bill (BB120), utilizing $40 . California Consumer Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information, California Consumer Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. 23:42 GMT 22 Jul 2019 It took decades to build the infrastructure that we use every single day. The comments below have not been moderated, By Bayeh didnt react as he was also given a $400 fine for hindering police. The document also alleges Mr Domican threatened an illegal poker machine supplier with violence in 1990 if he wasn't given money and access to the machines; and was sentenced to two months' hard labour in 1988 for possessing an unlicensed pistol. One of his techniques was quite unusual. The view from Johns Dover Heights home is breathtaking. Ms Nesbitt said nothing as Bayeh, now 57, greeted her from his outdoor table at the Five Boroughs coffee shop on Darlinghurst Road. The 55-year-old emerged with a tuft of white hair at the front of an otherwise black head of hair and was wearing a black hooded top and jeans as he walked through the gates at 9.14am (AEST) today. If you're a friend of mine you're there forever.'. But on his release from prison his power was much weakened. Its a remarkable return to form for the Golden Mile, now run by Bayehs former driver John Ibrahim. New King's Cross beat constable, Wendy Jones, quickly crosses paths with John Ibrahim and the attraction is mutual. "The fatal flaw in this legislation is that it disenfranchises voters in St. Louis," Hudson said. John was 19 when he became part-owner of the Tunnel but he had already armed himself with a formidable collection of contacts and friends. You need a vibrator up your arse, Bayeh responded. Bayeh was arrested in 1996 for dealing heroin and cocaine from the once-notorious Cosmopolitan Cafe in Kings Cross. Former Sydney drug kingpin Bill Bayeh has been granted parole after more than a decade in jail. The parole authority believed Bayeh had served a lengthy prison sentence compared to other sentences for crimes of a similar nature. ST. LOUIS (KMOV) - St. Louis City SC spent Wednesday afternoon packing up more than 1,600 meals for Operation Food Search. St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones signed the St. Louis Safer Streets bill Wednesday. Louis Bayeh swears revenge on Benny Kassab's boys Shaka and Norm Korbage for shooting up his house. 'I'm a happy man,' the grandfather-of-four says. I deserve a second chance it is the Australian way.. she said. She grumbles because she arrived early to work on the list but was unable to get into the room. Everybody knows everybody. A friend embarks on a monologue about the imprudence of talking to the press and John quiets him with a simple Thatll do. Bayeh was a major player in the Kings Cross drugs scene during the 1990s. I know everyone involved in the nightclub industry and they all know me. Even his late nights out are not wild ones, says John. Premier vows to raise standards of states pollies, Liberals used Daley video to their advantage. Taken into custody in 1996 on leaving the witness box at the Wood royal commission into police corruption. The argument erupted after intensive care nurse Leanne Nesbitt passed Bayeh on her way to work at St Vincents Hospital about 6.40pm on a Sunday in February 2015. 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. 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. 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. 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. In every station you get two or three corrupt coppers. Billy Bayeh was talking to Trevor Haken because he knows I have the respect in the Cross to wipe them out. Respect and a cache of favours awaiting repayment. Youve got a tape going, havent ya? Bayeh then jumped from his seat, according to the facts presented at the court. A restaurant burned by unreliable workers has bluntly advertised what theyre looking for on a sign hung outside their front door. John is dismissive about the context in which his relationships with colourful Kings Cross identities are viewed. You cant not be there and see whats going on. Staunton was again brought unstuck by an undercover cop and was arrested in January 1997 by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He hated it. When Bill's business suffers as a result, tensions rise between Bill and his brother, Louis Bayeh. 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. His first job after school was in the clearing department with the Commonwealth Bank where he fantasised about stealing pallets of cash. 'They did, however, break more laws than any of my friends outside the force.'. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. Daily Mail Australia is appealing after a court ruled the online publication had defamed Erin Molan in an article and tweets which falsely portrayed her as racist. I came in there and cut it all out. It's not hard to understand why. His garage houses two jet skis. ELECTION WRAP. Former Kings Cross underworld boss Bill Bayeh has walked free from prison after 15 years behind bars. 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. Most often he is alone because, he says, his friends are too impatient for such an unhurried pastime. Accused of being part of a syndicate which virtually monopolised the drug trade in Sydneys red-light district and regularly bribed police. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. 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. Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Bram and Manfred had never told Staunton the details of their business but US and Canandian authorities alleged they had trafficked 25 tonnes of Pakistani hashish worth about $1billion. Convicted cocaine dealer Bill Bayeh and his brother Louie are old friends of the family. He was arrested in 1996 after giving evidence at the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption. He was accompanied by his brother Louis as he walked past a throng of television cameras and . We used to do taekwondo together. They were abandoned after the Missouri Supreme Court cited constitutional and due process questions. So it would seem, but no, I am not, came Johns cocky reply. John believes the shockwaves caused by the Commission have only just begun. You just feel it. Follow the action from the third Test between India and Australia in Delhi in our live blog. 'I do not have a thousand morals,' Staunton writes on page one of The Good Bloke. Hed been cruising its streets since he was a schoolboy, piling into a car with a group of friends looking for action. A major player in last year's Underbelly TV series, Bill Bayeh was jailed for dealing heroin and cocaine from the once-notorious Cosmopolitan Cafe in Kings Cross. Then click on any blue marker to find out more. All times AEDT (GMT +11). All you need to do is get your foot in the door, John says. Jones hopes the end result of that work will resemble what has unfolded on a corridor not far from the site of the bill signing on the 3100 block of North Grand. If you dont own a business there (Kings Cross) you could not understand how much its affected it, he says. Under the bond for the Ms Nesbitt incident, Bayeh must continue psychological treatment for a year, Magistrate Graeme Curran told Downing Centre Local Court, noting both matters were at the lower end of seriousness. Like a trash TV junkie he watches the commission on television at every opportunity. It was a very different image of Bayeh from that of his heyday. He received compensation for his injuries but will not say how much, just that it wasnt a lot. ''It is not every day the Serious Offenders Review Council recommends that the parole authority consider the release of a serious offender at the first eligible date,'' he said. In Kings Cross because there were so many people there was a bigger majority. The clubs turned over close to $6m in the six years its been there. Police unions have rallied around Missouri Senate Bill 78, which would reinstate a Civil War-era system of state oversight. But she then stopped and turned to confront him about comments hed made some weeks earlier, sparking an argument that was recorded on her phone. Another hobby is jetskiing. 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. What else am I going to do? he laughs. 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. I dont think anyone expected he, would be involved in a business here. In return for the bribes, the police would tip off Bayeh about raids on his premises. The employees would be responsible for any charges the police laid. The next night Packer sent a minion to reward Staunton with an envelope full of $100 notes. Sergeant Jim Egan and Trevor Haken devise a plan to swindle money from the federal police. All rights reserved. Later, John hitches up his T-shirt to reveal his smooth, hairless abdomen. Bill Bayeh was jailed for 15 years for drug trafficking in the 1990s.Nick Moir Mr Ibrahim also alleges Mr Domican opened his coat to display his gun while telling associates he would "take care" of a rival drug dealer on a Saturday night in 1993. Bayeh was in court for sentencing on another matter, for allegedly hindering police in a separate incident three days before the February 2015 assault. Some nights John goes fishing off the rocks. 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. February 24 2023, 9:21 a.m. St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones . Ive done my time many times over for my charges. Soon afterwards he spoke with news.com.aus Editor-in-Chief Kate de Brito, revealing an ambitious young man who wanted to rule Kings Cross. Every job I got was eventually going to lead me to where I am now. One of the tensest moments of the hearing came when Redditt Hudson, a former St. Louis police officer working on diversion and alternative sentencing in Gardner's office, repeated accusations that the bill is a racist attack. Barrister Sue Chrysanthou, acting for Mr Domican, queried how allegations of branch stacking were relevant to the imputations raised before the court. It is a rental property, the owner a widow and friend of the family. The Liberal candidate in Kogarah says he capitalised on Opposition Leader Michael Daleys anti-migrant remarks to secure an 8.4 per swing in the primary vote in the Labor stronghold; Mr Daley takes the family to lunch; Bill Shorten says lessons must be learned; and, Labor women praise the Premier. 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. It is crisscrossed with scars. However, the operation goes awry. 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