Thats where you belong, John says. 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. I want to be left alone. While at John Morony jail near Windsor Staunton and another inmate used their music industry contacts to organise a concert for the prisoners. A local bum holds the door open when he sees John, who has been known to sling him a $50 note. Bicycle guy is a True Blue Aussie! All times AEDT (GMT +11). With help from drug king Bill Bayeh and his crew, Det. Bill and Louis Bayeh fight off threats to their drug dealing empire. 2015 Sydney Crime Museum. Spoils of crime Bayeh's Gladesville home. All rights reserved. The sun is shining and John is sparkling with good humour. These new "customers" (cops) are a bunch of noobs!To support the channel and my legal fund check out these options below:1. 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. John has only been to his parents country of birth, Lebanon, once. We looked like Martians. 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. When it reopens on Thursday it will have a new image and a new name: Earl Place 1. Dressed in beige jeans and a blue and white checked shirt, John is the quintessential young eastern suburbs entrepreneur. Please try again later. Walks free from Silverwater prison after minimum 15-year term for drug trafficking expires in July 2011. 'We also had several wonderful young ladies who were more than happy to purport to being "backing vocalists",' he writes. Trevor Haken wears a wire to a meeting with Bill Bayeh. 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. FORMER king of the Kings Cross strip, convicted drug dealer Bill Bayeh, has returned to what he knows best strip clubs. Kanaan received life sentences for three murders. Russell Townsend, described in Royal Commission evidence as an alleged drug dealer, is a friend and gym partner. It would be easy for Bill to go the wrong way but he is doing the right thing, she said. They were abandoned after the Missouri Supreme Court cited constitutional and due process questions. 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. Parole authority orders he not gamble, or frequent the Kings Cross area. One of his bouncer colleagues there was Felix Lyle, who would later become a Bandidos and Hells Angels boss. 'I'm a happy man,' the grandfather-of-four says. Akela Lacy. Get hyperlocal forecasts, radar and weather alerts. If it seems sometimes that he lacks respect for the Commission, its because he does. 6.9K views, 21 likes, 1 loves, 10 comments, 12 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from 7NEWS Sydney: Former Kings Cross kingpin Bill Bayeh has been charged. They were described by a police officer at the time as the biggest drug dealers in Kings Cross. His principal once told him he would wind up dead or very rich. Sydneys very small. ', Staunton says loyalty means everything to him. 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. Tanned, fit and small in stature, John has full lips, sleepy eyes and a subtly engaging persona. Ill show you how to do it, she tells John. Ms Nesbitt said nothing as Bayeh, now 57, greeted her from his outdoor table at the Five Boroughs coffee shop on Darlinghurst Road. Wrongfully jailed for two weeks in 2012 when authorities mistakenly believed he breached parole by travelling to north Queensland. Erin Molan defamation claim back in court, Bombshell for MP accused of child sex abuse. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. That way you can train whoevers in your room to do it, she responds with a smile. 'They did, however, break more laws than any of my friends outside the force.'. Even as he was driven away in the back of a police car in 1995, the smooth-faced 40-year-old retained a certain arrogance - holding his manacled hands up to the camera for all to see. The 1990s saw the rise of many other powerful and violent Lebanese figures, including Louis Bayehs brother Bill. Among Staunton's close friends was John Ibrahim, with whom he travelled to England, Austria and Lebanon on one trip. One of his techniques was quite unusual. Yet in his own surroundings, the streets of Kings Cross, John is charming. 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. ELECTION WRAP. The view from Johns Dover Heights home is breathtaking. Were working to restore it. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. She grumbles because she arrived early to work on the list but was unable to get into the room. There is not much we can do if he is running a legal business, said a police source. He (the owner) was getting robbed right left and centre. As John cruises up and down Darlinghurst Rd looking for a friend, he is greeted with casual waves. Russell Townsend, described in Royal Commission evidence as an alleged drug dealer, is a friend and gym partner. Bayeh pleaded guilty in March in the Downing Centre Local Court to one count of common assault over the February 2015 incident, allowing the full facts in the case to be revealed for the first time, and he appeared back in court Thursday for sentencing. 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. 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. When Bill's business suffers as a result, tensions rise between Bill and his brother, Louis Bayeh. The band supports a small triangular leather pouch, inside of which is family shit. Kim Hollingsworth organises a strip show for a police charity. Kim Hollingsworth continues to risk her life to expose Eddie Gould's corruption. Its not money thats been laundered. Until last year he was involved with a girl whom he had been dating for 10 years. Former Kings Cross underworld figure and convicted drug dealer Bill Bayeh is to be released on parole. 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. 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. 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. I am just trying to get my life back., Kings Cross underworld identity previously known as the King of the Cross. However, his paranoia is justified as he discovers the Commission has a lot of incriminating evidence against him. 2023, Charter Communications, all rights reserved. Former Kings Cross underworld boss Bill Bayeh has walked free from prison after 15 years behind bars. Hakim was used by the Gaming Squad to sign warrants for almost every raid it conducted from 1971 to 1979. 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. Most often he is alone because, he says, his friends are too impatient for such an unhurried pastime. But its not only police. New South Wales Corrective Services Commissioner Ron Woodham opposed Bayeh's parole, saying he was just presenting a facade as a naive man. In effect he was saying the detectives had engaged in noble corruption the use of illegal means by otherwise honest police to convict known criminals. 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. He asks Haken to do something about it because I aint making nothing. He was arrested in 1996 after giving evidence at the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption. It was in everyones best interests (that I buy into the club), John says. 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. 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. His garage houses two jet skis. The years have taken a toll on Bill Bayeh. Impressed by Ibrahim, Freeman offers him a job as a bouncer. 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. Don't miss out on the headlines from NSW. Louis Bayeh was himself sentenced in 1997 to four years jail for perverting the course of justice. Theyve got everything you and I have.. Political staffer Sally Rugg has ramped up her legal fight against teal independent Monique Ryan after an attempt at mediation failed. Two video games stand idly on opposite sides of the room. Ms Nesbitt feared for her safety and called police. 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. Our Spectrum News app is the most convenient way to get the stories that matter to you. February 24 2023, 9:21 a.m. St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones . Infrastructure work is very complicated. March 1, 2023, at 7:17 p.m. Missouri Governor Would Control St. Louis Police Under Bill. Everybody knows everybody. In return for the bribes, the police would tip off Bayeh about raids on his premises. In London the pair jumped the queue to get into Wimbledon when Ibrahim bought tickets for the 16 tennis fans behind them. We do the same things every day. Police unions have rallied around Missouri Senate Bill 78, which would reinstate a Civil War-era system of state oversight. Johns club The Tunnel is still in chaos after more than a month of renovations but he remains optimistic. One night he found a naked woman on the meal room table performing a sex act on herself with a police baton while his fellow officers drank cans of beer. I dont need to tell anyone how I got them. On his rise as a businessman in Kings Cross, John is more forthcoming. In order to escape conviction, Trevor volunteers to become a "supergrass" and expose corruption in King's Cross. 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. Premier vows to raise standards of states pollies, Liberals used Daley video to their advantage. I bumped into them on the street and we shook hands, he said with a smile. 'I'm not running from anything I've done. By then Staunton had bought his first Porsche and with a private investigator's licence work from major criminals and prominent law firms kept rolling in. Some nights John goes fishing off the rocks. 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. 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''. Download it here. It was difficult to believe that the greying, gaunt-faced man staring out from the audio-visual room at Silverwater Prison yesterday was the same one who once treated the streets of Kings Cross as his personal domain. 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. We were supposed to be there a week but we couldnt stand it so we left after three days. Life after prison looms for King of the Cross. I am a Muslim. It is crisscrossed with scars. 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. How is branch stacking relevant to heroin supply?" Bayeh didnt react as he was also given a $400 fine for hindering police. This was surprising because Hakim had had advance knowledge of the raid from his police sources; he later complained the drugs had been planted by Lauer. In 1999, he was sentenced to a 15-year minimum term - backdated to 1996 - which expires on July 17. 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. Its money thats all accounted for. Mayor Jones said the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department wrote more than 8,000 speeding tickets and 2,700 for signal violations, but said the city had to do more to hold reckless drivers accountable, which is why the city is looking to bring back red light cameras. The employees would be responsible for any charges the police laid. Now though, his focus is firmly on Love Machine and the entertainment game. But a group always has a dominant personality.. 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. 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. 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. MAIN SOURCE: Blood Money by Clive Small and Tom Gilling; The Prince and the Premier by David Hickie. 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'. Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. It was a very different image of Bayeh from that of his heyday. 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. Impressed by Ibrahim, Freeman offers him a job as a bouncer. '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. In 1988 they were all to be found on the Golden Mile. 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. People just dont want to go there. Debbie Webb joins the fraud squad, but is snubbed due to her whistleblower reputation. And when he speaks, the people around him listen. And sorry for the victims Ive caused trouble to.. Believe it or not I did very well at school but it just wasnt for me. Former Sydney drug kingpin Bill Bayeh has been granted parole after more than a decade in jail. "I want to move on with my life. 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. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Bill's connections and jobs at similar companies. Called to give evidence about his relationship with police and criminals including Bayeh, Staunton refused to speak and was jailed for contempt. JOHN Ibrahim likes to think he was destined to own a Kings Cross nightclub. I dont think anyone expected he, would be involved in a business here. John moved out of the Parramatta home he shared with his mother, his brothers and his sisters four years ago. 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. Tax has been paid on it.. On Monday, Missouri senators held a hearing on a bill to remove some of Gardner's authority. Theres corruption going on in every section where you could do somebody a good turn or a bad turn. We know that some of these education and enforcement mechanisms can be implemented sooner. Although wealthy, good looking and self-assured, John is, in many ways, an ineligible bachelor. Judge Christie noted the Commissioner's opposition, but said the Probation and Parole Service and the Serious Offenders Review Council supported Bayeh's release. However, Haken and Egan, along with drug dealer Bill Bayeh, set up an elaborate "sting" for their own profit. The Missouri House already passed a similar bill. 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. Because of the urgings of his friend to co-operate with the investigation, John is faced with the unenviable choice of "dobbing in" Townsend and losing the respect of Sydney's criminal underworld. Ive got the best education money could buy. I've never hurt anyone.'. Thats always kept me out of trouble the majority of the time.. Soon, Kassab becomes Bayeh's "fall guy", holding the money and drugs from Bill's deals. Benny Kassab suspects that he has a rat in his ranks. It is pretty interesting, especially given his history here.. 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. Released in 2011, Bayehs parole restrictions were such that he was not able to be in the vicinity of Kings Cross and other suburbs, including Woolloomooloo, for three years until restrictions were lifted on July 17, 2014. If you're a friend of mine you're there forever.'. After spending the previous night watching videos with friends, John is in a buoyant mood. 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?. 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. 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