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. All times AEDT (GMT +11). You get an education at school but it doesnt help you when youre out dealing with people. St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones signed the St. Louis Safer Streets bill Wednesday. Who can deny that his life is often stranger than fiction? Until last year he was involved with a girl whom he had been dating for 10 years. After almost a decade working in Kings Cross, the startling revelations of graft, corruption, drug dealing and prostitution are like office gossip to John. 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. Then the tapes and video footage played in the Wood Royal Commission effectively put Bayeh away. 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". 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?. Instead of learning how to read books, youve got learn how to read people and see what they want from you. On Wednesday, Mayor Tishaura Jones signed the St. Louis Safer Street bill (BB120), utilizing $40 . Cigarettes make me dizzy, he admits. FORMER Kings Cross identity Bill Bayeh has been given a bond for making a threat involving a sex toy to Geoffrey Edelsten's ex-wife during an ugly verbal spat recorded on a smart phone. More than once he was cut by the teachers cane. Download it here. Bill Bayeh has bought a share in iconic strip joint Love Machine, with the refurbished venue set to open again later this month It's a remarkable return to form for the Golden Mile, now run by Bayeh's former driver John Ibrahim. Staunton later worked inthe Modus Operandi Unit of the Criminal Investigation Branch, with the Highway Patrol and the Tactical Response Group (TRG). Bayeh was likewise associated with the strongman Tom Domican. I did what I did and I accept what I did. Dressed in beige jeans and a blue and white checked shirt, John is the quintessential young eastern suburbs entrepreneur. Former Kings Cross underworld boss Bill Bayeh has walked free from prison after 15 years behind bars. 'The Ten Commandments are a reference point, and thus my life is not complicated, no matter how hard I have tried to make it so. 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. 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Former Kings Cross underworld figure and convicted drug dealer Bill Bayeh is to be released on parole. Within a year the new leader, Michael Kanaan, and some 50 others associated with the gang had been arrested. To an outsider, the life of John Ibrahim is surreal. /news/article/bill-bayeh-arrested-after-nurse-assault/l48mi2g48 It feels good that Im given the chance to just walk anywhere I want, he said. Barrister Sue Chrysanthou, acting for Mr Domican, queried how allegations of branch stacking were relevant to the imputations raised before the court. Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. MAIN SOURCE: Blood Money by Clive Small and Tom Gilling; The Prince and the Premier by David Hickie. At 15 John was stabbed during a brawl in the Cross. We will abide by every single rule here and will be running a 100 per cent clean establishment, he said. Here is an entire list of people with the Last Name El undefined. They split and she lives overseas, although he still wears her ring on his wedding finger. Staunton was again brought unstuck by an undercover cop and was arrested in January 1997 by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He was arrested in 1996 after giving evidence at the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption. If you dont own a business there (Kings Cross) you could not understand how much its affected it, he says. Neither proved to be true and he launched legal proceedings, suing for up to $750,000 in damages from the state. Successful criminals who were not arrested often died. If you're a friend of mine you're there forever.'. 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. If they dont salute, they are a bastard they no good soldier at all. Drawn to the Cross from Sydney's western suburbs in the late 1980s, Bayeh developed a serious gambling problem that left him drowning in debt. 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've accepted everything I've done in life. This had hardly ever happened before there was an unwritten law among Sydneys criminals that family was to be kept out of business disputes. In 1999 Bayeh was the subject of an attempted assassination outside a restaurant in Narwee. While behind bars Staunton secured protection from Canadian bikies through his old friend Felix Lyle and managed to regularly speak on the phone to Bayeh, who was in an Australian prison. Don't miss out on the headlines from NSW. While still in the force he met underworld figure Louis Bayeh, his brother Bill, a young John Ibrahim and his older sibling Sam - a 'fearless criminal'. 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. Akela Lacy. 'The money, the travel and the adventure had all been thrilling. Bill Bayeh was in 1996 sentenced to 15 years jail for heroin and cocaine dealing. 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. On that occasion, Bayeh was accused of tearing up a handwritten drug code when he was searched by police outside the same coffee shop. ST. LOUIS - The City of St. Louis is making its largest investment in road and pedestrian safety. Yeah, I am the leader in some ways. Theyve got everything you and I have.. 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. S03:E03 - Kingdom Come . 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. 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 1987 Hakim was gaoled for six and a half years for his involvement in bribing Corrective Services Minister Rex Jackson to release prisoners early. The victim was transported to the . With a combination of manipulation, violence and a crude but highly effective business strategy, Bayeh developed a 24-hour-a-day operation that effectively monopolised the Kings Cross drugs market in the early '90s, feeding the red-light district's seemingly insatiable appetite for cocaine and heroin. Coles has announced it has scrapped a major Covid-19 requirement for all its staff. 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. 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. She grumbles because she arrived early to work on the list but was unable to get into the room. 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. S03:E06 - Women in Uniform. she said. Then you go home, have a shower and sleep very well.. 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. In order to escape conviction, Trevor volunteers to become a "supergrass" and expose corruption in King's Cross. However, his paranoia is justified as he discovers the Commission has a lot of incriminating evidence against him. He and a colleague had recovered a BMW stolen from television host Kerri-Anne Kennerley and then used to steal six dozen bottles of Scotch which were hidden in the boot. It was one of the first of what was to become a common form of violence and intimidation by Lebanese gangsters. This will not be work that we can complete overnight. 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 just had to waste time and plod along until I got there. Speaking outside the hearing, one of Bayeh's other brothers said he was pleased at the result. Not long afterwards John dropped out of school. When Bill's business suffers as a result, tensions rise between Bill and his brother, Louis Bayeh. Crime is an essential part of the city's history. It is crisscrossed with scars. "I just want to make a living like everybody else," said Bayeh. Tom Domican, left, is suing John Ibrahim for defamation. His first job after school was in the clearing department with the Commonwealth Bank where he fantasised about stealing pallets of cash. Board Bill 120 funds the design and implementation of traffic calming and road improvements for completed traffic studies in the city, funds traffic calming and ADA improvements for the Grand, Union, Goodfellow, Jefferson and Kingshighway corridors, and addresses safety improvements at the top 10 city crash locations. He must also undergo regular drug and alcohol testing and psychological assessment. Theyre only people. FORMER Kings Cross underworld identity Bill Bayeh has walked out of Sydney's Silverwater jail after serving 15 years for drug trafficking. The weekend accidents, which killed one person at Morgan Ford and Bates, and another which killed four at Forest Park and South Grand, serve as tragic reminders, Jones said, while adding that the city has to do more. So it would seem, but no, I am not, came Johns cocky reply. Parole authority orders he not gamble, or frequent the Kings Cross area. He rose from working the doors of nightclubs to mixing with international music stars and rubbing shoulders with Kerry Packer and Donald Trump. Former Sydney drug kingpin Bill Bayeh has been granted parole after more than a decade in jail. If it seems sometimes that he lacks respect for the Commission, its because he does. Bill and Louis Bayeh fight off threats to their drug dealing empire. 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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. There was not much point in me going to school. There he sat ringside with boxing legends Mike Tyson and Jeff Fenech and met future United States president Donald Trump who introduced himself outside Harding's dressing room. Back before the Ibrahims had seriously staked their claim and the Wood Royal Commission exposed the corruption riddling the King Cross police command, Bill Bayeh was ''Billy the Boss''. 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. He bought a delicatessen in Cleveland Street Redfern, close to the headquarters of the Gaming Squad and became a Justice of the Peace. In 1999 Bayeh was the subject of an attempted assassination outside a restaurant in Narwee. We have already seen with Robert Trimbole an example of how the Italian mafia came to Australia. Its not money thats been laundered. Many of those who came after Louis Bayeh did not last so long. Kim Hollingsworth's police friend, Sergeant Dave, abandons her after she "dobs in" to Internal Affairs. 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. The 60-year-old is the 'good bloke' of the title and says he lives by two simple rules: Loyalty is everything, and what is morally right and what is legal are not always the same thing. Bill Bayeh was jailed for 15 years for drug trafficking in the 1990s.Credit:Nick Moir. I cant sing, I cant dance. 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. It was in everyones best interests (that I buy into the club), John says. I bluffed well for a long time when I was 18. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. We looked like Martians. Bayeh was in court for sentencing on another matter, for allegedly hindering police in a separate incident three days before the February 2015 assault. Sydneys very small. 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. ELECTION WRAP. He was also filmed on 12 occasions preparing some 1500 caps of cocaine, valued at $90,000. We used to kick box together. I have worked with some pretty funny people. Russell Townsend, described in Royal Commission evidence as an alleged drug dealer, is a friend and gym partner. King's Cross detectives Graham "Chook" Fowler and Neville "Scully" Scullion are called to testify to the Wood Royal Commission. 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. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. One reason is that energetic and ambitious men who have difficulty obtaining legitimate opportunities turn to illegal ones. Bill and Louis Bayeh fight off threats to their drug dealing empire. 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. It is a rental property, the owner a widow and friend of the family. However, the operation goes awry. 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. The 1990s saw the rise of many other powerful and violent Lebanese figures, including Louis Bayehs brother Bill. His rise from such depths was dramatic. There has been a surprising development in the trial of a disgraced former NSW Minister facing more than two dozen child sex abuse allegations. "I want to move on with my life. 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. Traffic violence tears families and communities apart and to those who say that they feel scared on our roads: I hear you, Jones said. You just feel it. Judge Christie noted the Commissioner's opposition, but said the Probation and Parole Service and the Serious Offenders Review Council supported Bayeh's release. But for all his street savviness, Bayeh had pushed things too far. Staunton was first stationed at inner-city Redfern where he witnessed policing practices which quickly made him question his choice of employment. With help from drug king Bill Bayeh and his crew, Det. 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". Narrowly escaping a shooting in Bayeh's gaming room, John receives some advice from George Freeman. 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. 'You Australians are a hard lot,' Trump said to him. Convicted cocaine dealer Bill Bayeh and his brother Louie are old friends of the family. Kim Hollingsworth organises a strip show for a police charity. 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. Yet in his own surroundings, the streets of Kings Cross, John is charming. ', Staunton says loyalty means everything to him. Youve got a tape going, havent ya? Bayeh then jumped from his seat, according to the facts presented at the court. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. John is reticent to discuss the fight that left him hospitalised for three months with a stab wound in the stomach. His rise from such depths was dramatic. These new "customers" (cops) are a bunch of noobs!To support the channel and my legal fund check out these options below:1. 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