2015 Sydney Crime Museum. The band supports a small triangular leather pouch, inside of which is family shit. 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. Concerned, the NSW Police form Strike Force Lancer to stop him. Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. The clubs turned over close to $6m in the six years its been there. Russell Townsend, described in Royal Commission evidence as an alleged drug dealer, is a friend and gym partner. This is my opinion, sir, believe me on my babys life. But the relationship went through a rocky patch in 1985 when Hakim gave permission for certain men to put gaming machines into an ethnic club. Various prohibitions have caused many citizens to engage in criminal behaviour over the subsequent years, most commonly illegal gambling and drinking. Egan and Haken organise a deal with Kassab that if Shaka and Norm turn themselves in at the Bankstown Police Station, they will get off lightly. Why not, I grew up here, he said when asked why he had returned to Kings Cross. Bayeh initially claimed ignorance over the recordings and tried to explain his considerable assets by claiming they were the proceeds of gambling wins. With another club in Surfers Paradise, also called The Tunnel, he wanted to free up his commitments in Sydney. 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. In order to stake his claim to power in King's Cross, Danny "DK" Karam hires a group of young thugs. Its all who you know. 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. Convicted cocaine dealer Bill Bayeh and his brother Louie are old friends of the family. Later, John hitches up his T-shirt to reveal his smooth, hairless abdomen. They were described by a police officer at the time as the biggest drug dealers in Kings Cross. All the old forces of the King's Cross drug trade have been imprisoned and corrupt police have been cleaned out of the New South Wales police. 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. Bananas, they go off very quick.. Theres nothing about alcohol that does anything for me. Missouri's governor would once again have control over St. Louis police under a bill advancing in the state House. Bill Bayeh arrested after nurse assault . Thats the business were in. More than once he was cut by the teachers cane. FORMER Kings Cross underworld identity Bill Bayeh has walked out of Sydney's Silverwater jail after serving 15 years for drug trafficking. 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. 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. I've never hurt anyone.'. Staunton was again brought unstuck by an undercover cop and was arrested in January 1997 by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. 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". Learn More. 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''. You have to be where all the action is. Former Sydney drug kingpin Bill Bayeh has been granted parole after more than a decade in jail. We do the same things every day. On Monday, Missouri senators held a hearing on a bill to remove some of Gardner's authority. 02:50 GMT 23 Jul 2019. His older brother, Louis Bayeh, was also jailed in 1997 for perverting the course of justice. 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. Spoils of crime Bayeh's Gladesville home. While there seems to be no shortage of female friends in Johns life, he says he is not prepared for a serious commitment. It's being paid for with the American Rescue Plan Fund. Long-time observers of the Cross say it was typical of the shameless bravado Bayeh then projected as he cruised the famous red-light district. King's Cross detectives Graham "Chook" Fowler and Neville "Scully" Scullion are called to testify to the Wood Royal Commission. He bought a delicatessen in Cleveland Street Redfern, close to the headquarters of the Gaming Squad and became a Justice of the Peace. Young waitress Kim Hollingsworth turns to prostitution after she discovers her abusive boyfriend Trent has stolen money from her. The Good Bloke by Charles Staunton is published by Pan Macmillan and is available from Tuesday, July 23, for $32.99. Neither proved to be true and he launched legal proceedings, suing for up to $750,000 in damages from the state. You need a vibrator up your arse, Bayeh responded. This will not be work that we can complete overnight. Followed categories will be added to My News. 'On the whole, I loved most of my decade in the New South Wales Police Force,' he writes. John moved out of the Parramatta home he shared with his mother, his brothers and his sisters four years ago. Debbie Webb leaves King's Cross police and allies herself with her husband Greg Locke and politician John Hatton. FORMER king of the Kings Cross strip, convicted drug dealer Bill Bayeh, has returned to what he knows best strip clubs. Stephen Gibbs for Daily Mail Australia, The Good Bloke by Charles Staunton is published by Pan Macmillan and is available from Tuesday, July 23, for $32.99. Kim Hollingsworth's colourful past comes back to haunt her. Judge Christie noted the Commissioner's opposition, but said the Probation and Parole Service and the Serious Offenders Review Council supported Bayeh's release. Hit the names to obtain what you want to know. Not all of the target areas will receive funding, Board of Public Service President Rich Bradley said, adding that work will be prioritized on available funding. When Bill's business suffers as a result, tensions rise between Bill and his brother, Louis Bayeh. The legislation authorizes more than $40 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to pay for traffic calming and street redesign. John is out on the balcony bantering with his female assistant, a longtime friend. Policing in the 1960s and 1970s: a memoir. Former Kings Cross underworld boss Bill Bayeh has walked free from prison after 15 years behind bars. All around the world, first and second generation immigrants often form a higher proportion of criminals than of the general population. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. After almost a decade working in Kings Cross, the startling revelations of graft, corruption, drug dealing and prostitution are like office gossip to John. Most often he is alone because, he says, his friends are too impatient for such an unhurried pastime. 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. Follow the action from the third Test between India and Australia in Delhi in our live blog. 'You Australians are a hard lot,' Trump said to him. 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 running from anything I've done. My brother Sam and I have always been pretty healthy. Smalltime bouncer Benny Kassab has an audacious plan to become King of the Cross. However, Louis Bayeh uses his own police contacts to successfully oppose bail for the duo, causing Kassab to look like a liar. 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. We didnt fit in. Staunton, whose international criminal partners knew him as 'The Prince', has now written about his colourful life in a book called The Good Bloke. Mayor Tishaura Jones . "The fatal flaw in this legislation is that it disenfranchises voters in St. Louis," Hudson said. JOHN Ibrahim likes to think he was destined to own a Kings Cross nightclub. I have always stayed away from the drugs and the gambling and prostitution. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. 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. Smalltime bouncer Benny Kassab has an audacious plan to become King of the Cross. He chose to begin business in the Cross because in a different suburb I wouldnt make the same money. 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. In the mid-1960s he obtained the protection of Lennie McPherson and proceeded to provide protection himself to Lebanese and other ethnic gaming clubs. You cant not be there and see whats going on. Once I was in, the club paid for itself. 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. Thats where you belong, John says. 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. Its a remarkable return to form for the Golden Mile, now run by Bayehs former driver John Ibrahim. 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. We used to do taekwondo together. Former nightclub boss John Ibrahim claims that Tom Domican, the man he is accused of defaming as a "violent criminal", was hired to intimidate him during the late 1990s by the brother of former Kings Cross drug kingpin Bill Bayeh. I put everything we made back into the club. 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. MAIN SOURCE: Blood Money by Clive Small and Tom Gilling; The Prince and the Premier by David Hickie. Theyve got everything you and I have.. ''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. 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. When John changes into a sports singlet for the gym he reveals a worn band which he wears around the top of his arm. He supplied the drugs to those working on the front desks of his businesses, who would sell them in return for a cut of the profits. Louis Bayeh was himself sentenced in 1997 to four years jail for perverting the course of justice. 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. In 2001, he was sentenced to another three years after pleading guilty to demanding money with menaces from two brothel keepers and for supplying cocaine and heroin. What else am I going to do? he laughs. He is also talking about the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service and the heavy toll it has exacted from Sydneys red light district. /news/article/bill-bayeh-arrested-after-nurse-assault/l48mi2g48 Bill Bayeh and John Ibrahim would go on to play major roles in his life. New King's Cross beat constable, Wendy Jones, quickly crosses paths with John Ibrahim and the attraction is mutual. Impressed by Ibrahim, Freeman offers him a job as a bouncer. We flew from Amsterdam straight to Lebanon. 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. John was 16 when he first started working on the door of Images nightclub at Parramatta. As a young constable Charlie Staunton dreamed of one day becoming commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force. Could this really be a coincidence? His sentencing was adjourned so psychiatric evidence can be gathered. Click on the image above to see a map of Sydney showing famous crime locations. The parole authority believed Bayeh had served a lengthy prison sentence compared to other sentences for crimes of a similar nature. Like a prince in plain clothes John, 25, is slouched in a chair at a Victoria Rd cafe talking to three friends about his club, The Tunnel, which is undergoing renovations. According to a defence lodged by Mr Ibrahim in November, Mr Domican - who had an attempted murder conviction overturned by the High Court - was in the "very frequent company" of Bill Bayeh in 1993 and 1994, "when he was eating, drinking, walking around and conducting business in the Kings Cross area". Kim Hollingsworth organises a strip show for a police charity. Get hyperlocal forecasts, radar and weather alerts. A telescope is trained on the water. John has only been to his parents country of birth, Lebanon, once. If they dont salute, they are a bastard they no good soldier at all. Debbie Webb joins the fraud squad, but is snubbed due to her whistleblower reputation. They were abandoned after the Missouri Supreme Court cited constitutional and due process questions. Bill Bayeh - a major character in last year's Underbelly TV series - will start a new career as a fruit and vegetable seller. 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. 'Before I'd taken the job with Bram, I'd investigated the possible penalties,' he writes. In seeming retaliation, Johns attitude on the witness stand remained one degree short of insolence. In 1999, he was sentenced to a 15-year minimum term - backdated to 1996 - which expires on July 17. It's not hard to understand why. While at John Morony jail near Windsor Staunton and another inmate used their music industry contacts to organise a concert for the prisoners. ''He is going to work for a fruit man,'' he added. They are proof of a violent youth but John says simply: Theyre my scars. These new "customers" (cops) are a bunch of noobs!To support the channel and my legal fund check out these options below:1. 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. Id like to think (Im a good judge of character) but then everybody thinks they know something about something. 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. Hed been cruising its streets since he was a schoolboy, piling into a car with a group of friends looking for action. I have gotten what I wanted out of the Cross. At a nearby table comedian Vince Sorrenti is shouting to a group of workmen performing noisy roadwork. Not long afterwards John dropped out of school. Of his now-shelved fruit shop plans, he said: It didnt happen. John believes the shockwaves caused by the Commission have only just begun. You get an education at school but it doesnt help you when youre out dealing with people. As his drug operation grew, Bayeh and his family indulged in the good life. A JP had to sign the warrant necessary for a raid on suspected illegal gaming premises. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. A local bum holds the door open when he sees John, who has been known to sling him a $50 note. Accused of being part of a syndicate which virtually monopolised the drug trade in Sydneys red-light district and regularly bribed police. He was shot three times but survived. SYDNEY nightclub owner John Ibrahim was very young when he gave this first revealing interview. 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. I dont need to tell anyone how I got them. On his rise as a businessman in Kings Cross, John is more forthcoming. S03:E03 - Kingdom Come . Aware that he is being investigated by the Wood Royal Commission, Dennis Kelly dobs in Jim Egan to investigators. I just want to make a living like everybody else, said Bayeh. Bayeh is also keen to point out there will be a zero tolerance to drugs at the venue. In 1983 the Australian Federal Police tapped over 7,000 of Hakims conversations: 26 corruption investigations involving police ensued. What they do for their living and what they do for their business is none of my business. Some nights John goes fishing off the rocks. Mr Ibrahim claims he took over the "business of protecting businesses" from the Bayehs, prompting the Cosmopolitan Cafe meeting at which Mr Domican was present. Sydney was founded by criminals who for years formed a majority of its population. Dressed in beige jeans and a blue and white checked shirt, John is the quintessential young eastern suburbs entrepreneur. As John cruises up and down Darlinghurst Rd looking for a friend, he is greeted with casual waves. Smart and casual, he exudes a faint air of wealth. S03:E06 - Women in Uniform. We used to kick box together. His classroom became the streets of Kings Cross and like any student, some lessons were hard to learn. Today the War on Drugs continues to affect many lives in ways ranging from the trivial to the profound. 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. However, the operation goes awry. Later John confides: All these people, weve been together since we had nothing. But its not only police. 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