Bayeh is also keen to point out there will be a zero tolerance to drugs at the venue. 02:50 GMT 23 Jul 2019. Then you go home, have a shower and sleep very well.. I want to move on with my life. S03:E03 - Kingdom Come . Bill Bayeh - a major character in last year's Underbelly TV series - will start a new career as a fruit and vegetable seller. Called to give evidence about his relationship with police and criminals including Bayeh, Staunton refused to speak and was jailed for contempt. 'I've accepted everything I've done in life. He was accompanied by his brother Louis as he walked past a throng of television cameras and . Mr Lonergan said the remark dovetailed with comments made in 1999 by Bayeh's sentencing judge, Judge Joseph Gibson, who said he did not believe Bayeh was remorseful for his crimes. A restaurant burned by unreliable workers has bluntly advertised what theyre looking for on a sign hung outside their front door. Cigarettes make me dizzy, he admits. 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'm not ashamed of anything I've done. The team stuffed backpacks with meals to tide children over the weekend . 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. All times AEDT (GMT +11). He was arrested in 1996 after giving evidence at the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption. 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. John is out on the balcony bantering with his female assistant, a longtime friend. 'You Australians are a hard lot,' Trump said to him. 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. I know everyone involved in the nightclub industry and they all know me. Even his late nights out are not wild ones, says John. 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. Its all who you know. Bayeh was in court for sentencing on another matter, for allegedly hindering police in a separate incident three days before the February 2015 assault. Smalltime bouncer Benny Kassab has an audacious plan to become King of the Cross and Tevor Haken's alcoholism takes a toll on his marriage and his ability to manage police corruption. In every station you get two or three corrupt coppers. Youll find we are very boring. Having obtained the HSC via correspondence, she enrolls in a detective's course at Goulburn Police Academy. THE former king of the Kings Cross strip has returned to what he knows best: The strip club business. Pan Macmillan's defence claims it could also be inferred Mr Domican was a violent criminal from a 2002 conviction in Western Australia after he pleaded guilty to threatening to break the neck of a police officer. 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. 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. Pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply commercial quantities of cocaine and heroin in 1995 and 1996. 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. Learn More. If the police came knocking, the cashiers would pretend they were simply running an innocent entertainment business. At 15 John was stabbed during a brawl in the Cross. 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. As John cruises up and down Darlinghurst Rd looking for a friend, he is greeted with casual waves. His principal once told him he would wind up dead or very rich. Some nights John goes fishing off the rocks. I bluffed well for a long time when I was 18. Click on the image above to see a map of Sydney showing famous crime locations. He is based in London and expects to live until he his 100. John believes the shockwaves caused by the Commission have only just begun. On Wednesday, Mayor Tishaura Jones signed the St. Louis Safer Street bill (BB120), utilizing $40 . You need to be in jail, Ms Nesbitt said, according to a NSW Police statement of facts. Ive done my time many times over for my charges. 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. A JP had to sign the warrant necessary for a raid on suspected illegal gaming premises. JOHN Ibrahim likes to think he was destined to own a Kings Cross nightclub. It primarily depicts the organized crimes in Kings Cross and the police corruption leading up to the 1995 Wood Royal Commission. 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. During a transfer Staunton found himself sharing a van with Ivan Milat, 'puzzled as to how such an insignificant wimp could have terrorised and brutally murdered so many innocent people.'. 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. There was not much point in me going to school. 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. They go home, theyve got social lives, they go out. We were supposed to be there a week but we couldnt stand it so we left after three days. 'I do not have a thousand morals,' Staunton writes on page one of The Good Bloke. Russell Townsend, described in Royal Commission evidence as an alleged drug dealer, is a friend and gym partner. 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. Youve got a tape going, havent ya? Bayeh then jumped from his seat, according to the facts presented at the court. 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. Bayeh was wrongfully jailed for two weeks in 2012 when authorities mistakenly believed he breached parole by travelling to north Queensland. 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. ST. LOUIS - The City of St. Louis is making its largest investment in road and pedestrian safety. Those who have crossed him no doubt have a different story to tell. Our contributors include the great investigators Bob Bottom and Al McCoy, and the wonderfully insightful Sydney artist Michael Fitzjames. With a wife and young family to support Staunton soon found work on the door at Baron's, an all-night bar and restaurant in Kings Cross. 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. Tax has been paid on it.. However, his paranoia is justified as he discovers the Commission has a lot of incriminating evidence against him. 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. He hated it. I dont believe in drugs, he says. Dressed in beige jeans and a blue and white checked shirt, John is the quintessential young eastern suburbs entrepreneur. I learned how to read, I learned how to write. On both levels of the house the curtains are drawn across the windows. 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. Various prohibitions have caused many citizens to engage in criminal behaviour over the subsequent years, most commonly illegal gambling and drinking. 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. THE former wife of flamboyant doctor Geoffrey Edelsten had an epic run-in with a notorious Kings Cross identity. 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. 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. 'I just wanted to get straight into it. 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.. It didnt end well. Policing in the 1960s and 1970s: a memoir. I couldnt wait to get out of there and get amongst it. 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. Ive got the best education money could buy. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. 'On the whole, I loved most of my decade in the New South Wales Police Force,' he writes. Trevor Haken's paranoia reaches an all-new high. John Ibrahim's book, Last King of the Cross. He took charge of $23million in Montreal and ferried $1million through Turkey into Pakistan wearing spray tan and a dark wig. (Spectrum News/Gregg Palermo). It typifies Johns blithe attitude to life. John was 16 when he first started working on the door of Images nightclub at Parramatta. Russell Townsend, described in Royal Commission evidence as an alleged drug dealer, is a friend and gym partner. 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. Kim Hollingsworth organises a strip show for a police charity. One of his bouncer colleagues there was Felix Lyle, who would later become a Bandidos and Hells Angels boss. Debbie Webb leaves King's Cross police and allies herself with her husband Greg Locke and politician John Hatton. If it seems sometimes that he lacks respect for the Commission, its because he does. Like a trash TV junkie he watches the commission on television at every opportunity. Upon his release Staunton was deportedand made his way to London. The clubs turned over close to $6m in the six years its been there. Theres corruption going on in every section where you could do somebody a good turn or a bad turn. ST. LOUIS (KMOV) - St. Louis City SC spent Wednesday afternoon packing up more than 1,600 meals for Operation Food Search. He faces strict parole conditions including counselling and drug testing, and has been ordered to stay away from Kings Cross. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. I thought "I'm going to save the world - this is great - I can be a superhero here".'. 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. After leaving school John began working in Kings Cross at the Tunnel Cabaret nightclub. 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. Never speak to me on the street. In it Bayeh alleges that Russell (Townsend), Sam Ibrahim and John: They got the whole street. 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. Like most organised criminals in the modern era, they focussed on selling drugs, although standing over other drug dealers and car re-birthing were also popular. Missouri's governor would once again have control over St. Louis police under a bill advancing in the state House. How is branch stacking relevant to heroin supply?" 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. Staunton, whose international criminal partners knew him as 'The Prince', has now written about his colourful life in a book called The Good Bloke. ST. LOUIS - The city of St. Louis will invest more than $60 million to try to make streets and sidewalks safer. She also said the city was in the early stages of looking at if the city should staff a non-police traffic enforcement unit. Convicted cocaine dealer Bill Bayeh and his brother Louie are old friends of the family. Spoils of crime Bayeh's Gladesville home. California Consumer Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information, California Consumer Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Yet in his own surroundings, the streets of Kings Cross, John is charming. BAYEH CHARGED FOR RESISTING ARREST AFTER RIPPING UP NOTE Leanne Edelsten is now an intensive care nurse at St Vincent's Hospital. '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. You get an education at school but it doesnt help you when youre out dealing with people. When gang violence breaks out in King's Cross, John Ibrahim is placed under pressure to clean up the streets. He asks Haken to do something about it because I aint making nothing. It would be easy for Bill to go the wrong way but he is doing the right thing, she said. His only regret is the time he spent away from his two sons, Danial and Timothy. Bill Bayeh leaving the Wood Royal Commission after his arrest for supplying drugs. There is not much we can do if he is running a legal business, said a police source. The wars over but the wars still inside the people. Well, youre the new lifeblood of the drug industry in Kings Cross, arent you? Mr Agius asked John after the tape was played. 'I'm not running from anything I've done. They should never have let you out, youre a criminal.. In seeming retaliation, Johns attitude on the witness stand remained one degree short of insolence. He neither drinks nor smokes. John is dismissive about the context in which his relationships with colourful Kings Cross identities are viewed. And when he speaks, the people around him listen. Not content with his position, Kassab begins distributing drugs secretly. Bill and Louis Bayeh fight off threats to their drug dealing empire. They split and she lives overseas, although he still wears her ring on his wedding finger. I know a lot of people in Sydney. 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. 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. Another hobby is jetskiing. 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. However, Haken and Egan, along with drug dealer Bill Bayeh, set up an elaborate "sting" for their own profit. 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". My brother Sam and I have always been pretty healthy. 'I couldn't wait,' he tells Daily Mail Australia. His rise from such depths was dramatic. The 1990s saw the rise of many other powerful and violent Lebanese figures, including Louis Bayehs brother Bill. 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. All you need to do is get your foot in the door, John says. Bill Bayeh was in 1996 sentenced to 15 years jail for heroin and cocaine dealing. Traffic violence tears families and communities apart and to those who say that they feel scared on our roads: I hear you, Jones said. It's being paid for with the American Rescue Plan Fund. But now Bill Bayeh - whose 15-year stretch behind bars may end within weeks - could be banned from setting foot on Sydney's Golden Mile. 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. 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. 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'. 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. During the hearing, counsel for the Commissioner, Christopher Lonergan, referred to a pre-release report by Bayeh's probation and parole officer. Bill has 1 job listed on their profile. An old, sloping billiard table is the living rooms centrepiece, closed in on two sides by leather couches. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. Asked if his brother would be able to stay out of trouble, he said ''of course''. I dont think anyone expected he, would be involved in a business here. He pleaded guilty to the hindrance charge earlier this month, while prosecutors dropped a second charge of resisting police. 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. Later John confides: All these people, weve been together since we had nothing. Now though, his focus is firmly on Love Machine and the entertainment game. 'Before I'd taken the job with Bram, I'd investigated the possible penalties,' he writes. 'There was no point in complaining about my sentence. I knew them all and they wouldnt have been standing over my business. 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. 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. But I still go home once a week to have a cup of tea with my mum, he says. 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. Hakim expanded his contacts among police and became a general intermediary between them and the underworld. Kim Hollingsworth's police friend, Sergeant Dave, abandons her after she "dobs in" to Internal Affairs. Newcomer Benny Kassab starts dealing drugs in competition with the Bayeh brothers. FORMER Kings Cross underworld identity Bill Bayeh has walked out of Sydney's Silverwater jail after serving 15 years for drug trafficking. I deserve a second chance it is the Australian way.. Can you turn it up a little, he jokes above the laughter of his friends. Staunton was adept at solving legal problems for his associates and became well-known on the Sydney nightclub and music scene. Staunton was sentenced to nine and a half years and served three in Canadian prisons where French was spoken more widely than English. 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. 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. "I want to move on with my life. 'The corrections staff had no idea at all, not a clue, and the frustrations of many a long-serving inmate were relieved.'. Kim Hollingsworth continues to risk her life to expose Eddie Gould's corruption. Everywhere we go we know each other. An angry Kim Hollingsworth returns to Sydney from Adelaide, intending on suing the NSW Police. 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. 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. I'd know the stakes and reaped the rewards. Later, John hitches up his T-shirt to reveal his smooth, hairless abdomen. Bill Bayeh pleaded guilty to assaulting intensive care nurse Leanne Nesbitt The Kings Cross identity got into a heated argument with her early last year Bayeh allegedly made a threat. ''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. MAIN SOURCE: Blood Money by Clive Small and Tom Gilling; The Prince and the Premier by David Hickie. Thats where you belong, John says. 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?". 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. The green tracksuited figure then stood, turned and was led back to his cell to serve the remaining 19 days before he was officially eligible for release. In order to escape conviction, Trevor volunteers to become a "supergrass" and expose corruption in King's Cross. While at John Morony jail near Windsor Staunton and another inmate used their music industry contacts to organise a concert for the prisoners. Staunton later worked inthe Modus Operandi Unit of the Criminal Investigation Branch, with the Highway Patrol and the Tactical Response Group (TRG). In London the pair jumped the queue to get into Wimbledon when Ibrahim bought tickets for the 16 tennis fans behind them. However, he appeared quite street-savvy and capable of verbal manipulation at all levels.''. However, the operation goes awry. ''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. Bill Bayeh and John Ibrahim would go on to play major roles in his life. It feels good that Im given the chance to just walk anywhere I want, he said. 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. But for all his street savviness, Bayeh had pushed things too far. When it reopens on Thursday it will have a new image and a new name: Earl Place 1. He bought a delicatessen in Cleveland Street Redfern, close to the headquarters of the Gaming Squad and became a Justice of the Peace. If they dont salute, they are a bastard they no good soldier at all. Sydneys very small. It took decades to build the infrastructure that we use every single day. I am just trying to get my life back., Kings Cross underworld identity previously known as the King of the Cross. she said. 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'. The victim was transported to the . Stephen Gibbs for Daily Mail Australia 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. I lost everything, lost my family, I lost my kids, all my money, everything. 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. Staunton writes of visits to Sha Tin races in Hong Kong, Royal Ascot in England and regular Sunday night card games with identities including then rugby league coach Phil Gould. 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. Sydney was founded by criminals who for years formed a majority of its population. Dennis Kelly fights off competition from Gerry lloyd and Sid Hillier for the role of Police Commissioner. While supporting Bayeh's release, the officer said: ''Mr Bayeh attempted to present a facade of a naive man, eager to charm and please. 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. 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. Do the crime, do the time; I just had to get on with it.'. On that occasion, Bayeh was accused of tearing up a handwritten drug code when he was searched by police outside the same coffee shop. Narrowly escaping a shooting in Bayeh's gaming room, John receives some advice from George Freeman. 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. Benny Kassab, a nightclub bouncer, quells a street brawl and earns the attention of Bill Bayeh. His older brother, Louis Bayeh, was also jailed in 1997 for perverting the course of justice. We went to state level.. Ran the Cosmopolitan coffee lounge in Darlinghurst Road, as well as an amusement parlour, strip club and snooker room. Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Theyre more important than money, John confides. Not long afterwards John dropped out of school. I have one drink and Im all over the place. So it would seem, but no, I am not, came Johns cocky reply. His period of dominance in Kings Cross was the inspiration for the third series of the TV drama Underbelly. I just want to get on with my life, he said. Smalltime bouncer Benny Kassab has an audacious plan to become King of the Cross. I've never hurt anyone.'. You cant not be there and see whats going on. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. I knew I wanted to be in the nightclub and restaurant industry.. Of his now-shelved fruit shop plans, he said: It didnt happen. But its not only police. Kim Hollingsworth organises a strip show for a police charity. 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. 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