Bill Bayeh was jailed for 15 years for drug trafficking in the 1990s.Credit:Nick Moir. Theyre only people. 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. 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. The victim was transported to the . 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. 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. FORMER Kings Cross underworld identity Bill Bayeh has walked out of Sydney's Silverwater jail after serving 15 years for drug trafficking. He was also filmed on 12 occasions preparing some 1500 caps of cocaine, valued at $90,000. He was arrested in 1996 after giving evidence at the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption. You cant not have a relationship with coppers and own a business. King's Cross detectives Graham "Chook" Fowler and Neville "Scully" Scullion are called to testify to the Wood Royal Commission. 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. I just had to waste time and plod along until I got there. View Bill Bayeh's profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. 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. I lost everything, lost my family, I lost my kids, all my money, everything. After leaving school John began working in Kings Cross at the Tunnel Cabaret nightclub. FORMER Kings Cross drug czar Bill Bayeh is back in strife with the law, arrested twice in three days by police the latest for allegedly assaulting one-time model turned nurse, Leanne Edelsten. Staunton later worked inthe Modus Operandi Unit of the Criminal Investigation Branch, with the Highway Patrol and the Tactical Response Group (TRG). 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. However, after going on a scuba trip with Ibrahim, Wendy starts to have second thoughts. 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''. Police unions have rallied around Missouri Senate Bill 78, which would reinstate a Civil War-era system of state oversight. Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. Sergeant Jim Egan and Trevor Haken devise a plan to swindle money from the federal police. I thought "I'm going to save the world - this is great - I can be a superhero here".'. One of his bouncer colleagues there was Felix Lyle, who would later become a Bandidos and Hells Angels boss. 23:42 GMT 22 Jul 2019 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. The next night Packer sent a minion to reward Staunton with an envelope full of $100 notes. Well, youre the new lifeblood of the drug industry in Kings Cross, arent you? Mr Agius asked John after the tape was played. 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. But I still go home once a week to have a cup of tea with my mum, he says. Accused of being part of a syndicate which virtually monopolised the drug trade in Sydneys red-light district and regularly bribed police. Neither proved to be true and he launched legal proceedings, suing for up to $750,000 in damages from the state. Bayeh was likewise associated with the strongman Tom Domican. A JP had to sign the warrant necessary for a raid on suspected illegal gaming premises. 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. He drove a prison van to and from court for a year when the Bandido and Comanchero gangs faced trial for the 1984 Milperra massacre, at which six bikies and a teenage girl were killed. Sydney was founded by criminals who for years formed a majority of its population. 'You Australians are a hard lot,' Trump said to him. Everybody knows everybody. I know a lot of people in Sydney. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Bill's connections and jobs at similar companies. But the NSW Corrective Services Commissioner still argued against Bayeh's release yesterday. Whilst Fowler denies he is involved in corruption, he is shown covert video footage of him accepting a bribe. 'We also had several wonderful young ladies who were more than happy to purport to being "backing vocalists",' he writes. 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. He faced a parole board hearing for the first time today and the board heard Bayeh has been a model prisoner. See more at www.tennews.com.au 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. Bill Bayeh leaving the Wood Royal Commission after his arrest for supplying drugs. 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. The Republican-led House on Wednesday gave initial approval to the legislation. Bill Bayeh arrested after nurse assault . His classroom became the streets of Kings Cross and like any student, some lessons were hard to learn. He chose to begin business in the Cross because in a different suburb I wouldnt make the same money. 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. He received compensation for his injuries but will not say how much, just that it wasnt a lot. ST. LOUIS - The City of St. Louis is making its largest investment in road and pedestrian safety. We do the same things every day. If it seems sometimes that he lacks respect for the Commission, its because he does. A friend embarks on a monologue about the imprudence of talking to the press and John quiets him with a simple Thatll do. Hakim was used by the Gaming Squad to sign warrants for almost every raid it conducted from 1971 to 1979. (AP) Missouri 's governor would control St. Louis police under a bill advanced . One of his techniques was quite unusual. S03:E06 - Women in Uniform. 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. 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. Until last year he was involved with a girl whom he had been dating for 10 years. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. It typifies Johns blithe attitude to life. 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. This will not be work that we can complete overnight. 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". So it would seem, but no, I am not, came Johns cocky reply. Youll find we are very boring. '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. 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. Like a trash TV junkie he watches the commission on television at every opportunity. 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. Theres corruption going on in every section where you could do somebody a good turn or a bad turn. Wrongfully jailed for two weeks in 2012 when authorities mistakenly believed he breached parole by travelling to north Queensland. Closed for two months after a minor liquor licensing violation, John took the opportunity to put a fresh face on the club. It took decades to build the infrastructure that we use every single day. I have always stayed away from the drugs and the gambling and prostitution. All rights reserved. His only regret is the time he spent away from his two sons, Danial and Timothy. Erin Molan defamation claim back in court, Bombshell for MP accused of child sex abuse. Convicted drug dealer Bill Bayeh has been released on parole after 15 years in prison for heroin trafficking in Sydney's Kings Cross. Akela Lacy. Later, John hitches up his T-shirt to reveal his smooth, hairless abdomen. Aware that he is being investigated by the Wood Royal Commission, Dennis Kelly dobs in Jim Egan to investigators. Speaking outside the hearing, one of Bayeh's other brothers said he was pleased at the result. 2015 Sydney Crime Museum. Bill and Louis Bayeh fight off threats to their drug dealing empire. Later John confides: All these people, weve been together since we had nothing. He bought a delicatessen in Cleveland Street Redfern, close to the headquarters of the Gaming Squad and became a Justice of the Peace. 'The corrections staff had no idea at all, not a clue, and the frustrations of many a long-serving inmate were relieved.'. 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. The clouds have finally lifted over Kings Cross after days of rain. 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. 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. FORMER Kings Cross underworld identity Bill Bayeh has walked out of Sydney's Silverwater jail . During the hearing, counsel for the Commissioner, Christopher Lonergan, referred to a pre-release report by Bayeh's probation and parole officer. 'But the morals that I have, I will not sell or give up on. Bayeh was arrested in 1996 for dealing heroin and cocaine from the once-notorious Cosmopolitan Cafe in Kings Cross. Im going to shove a dildo up your arse, he allegedly said. 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. In the mid-1960s he obtained the protection of Lennie McPherson and proceeded to provide protection himself to Lebanese and other ethnic gaming clubs. Louis Bayeh was himself sentenced in 1997 to four years jail for perverting the course of justice. Soon Staunton was moving millions of dollars in cash across continents for the Pacific Mariner Cartel in which he was known by the nickname 'The Prince'. 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. 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. It was one of the first of what was to become a common form of violence and intimidation by Lebanese gangsters. Judge Christie noted the Commissioner's opposition, but said the Probation and Parole Service and the Serious Offenders Review Council supported Bayeh's release. Benny Kassab, a nightclub bouncer, quells a street brawl and earns the attention of Bill Bayeh. 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. In July 1993 Bayehs Ermington home, where his children were sleeping, was the subject of a drive-by shooting. However, the operation goes awry. 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. He was shot three times but survived. 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. These new "customers" (cops) are a bunch of noobs!To support the channel and my legal fund check out these options below:1. They were described by a police officer at the time as the biggest drug dealers in Kings Cross. 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. Thats what I think. 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. I couldnt wait to get out of there and get amongst it. Staunton still works in security, hospitality and logistics and as a bodyguard to A-list celebrities. It is pretty interesting, especially given his history here.. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. , updated His first job after school was in the clearing department with the Commonwealth Bank where he fantasised about stealing pallets of cash. I've never hurt anyone.'. New South Wales Corrective Services Commissioner Ron Woodham opposed Bayeh's parole, saying he was just presenting a facade as a naive man. 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. "How is branch stacking relevant to gang wars? The lounge room, covered in thick white carpet, is clean but untidy, giving the impression of an archetypal boys house. John has only been to his parents country of birth, Lebanon, once. Premier vows to raise standards of states pollies, Liberals used Daley video to their advantage. Thats where you belong, John says. ST. LOUIS (KMOV) - St. Louis City SC spent Wednesday afternoon packing up more than 1,600 meals for Operation Food Search. We looked like Martians. BAYEH CHARGED FOR RESISTING ARREST AFTER RIPPING UP NOTE Leanne Edelsten is now an intensive care nurse at St Vincent's Hospital. 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. I cant sing, I cant dance. MAIN SOURCE: Blood Money by Clive Small and Tom Gilling; The Prince and the Premier by David Hickie. It was a very different image of Bayeh from that of his heyday. 'My life has been a bit more interesting than most,' Staunton writes. We eat at the same places and we go to the same clubs, he says. John is dismissive about the context in which his relationships with colourful Kings Cross identities are viewed. Police were surprised to hear Bayeh was going back into business in the Cross. Naturally this gave him advance notification of every raid, which could be passed on to those who paid him protection. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. 2023, Charter Communications, all rights reserved. Sydneys very small. We are not on the dole bludging, we want to do this right.. I have worked with some pretty funny people. Kanaan received life sentences for three murders. Soon, Kassab becomes Bayeh's "fall guy", holding the money and drugs from Bill's deals. But the parole authority agreed to release him anyway, saying his 15-year sentence was lengthy compared to crimes of a similar nature. Various prohibitions have caused many citizens to engage in criminal behaviour over the subsequent years, most commonly illegal gambling and drinking. 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. 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.'. 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. ELECTION WRAP. 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. John Ibrahim claims Tom Domican was hired to intimidate him. ''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. An angry Kim Hollingsworth returns to Sydney from Adelaide, intending on suing the NSW Police. 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. Bill Bayeh has bought a share in iconic strip joint Love Machine, with the refurbished venue set to open again later this month. 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. I want to move on with my life. If you dont own a business there (Kings Cross) you could not understand how much its affected it, he says. It is a rental property, the owner a widow and friend of the family. Kim Hollingsworth is expelled from the Goulburn Academy for failing to disclose her work as a prostitute. More than once he was cut by the teachers cane. 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. That was another episode when we said `Arent you glad to be an Australian?, Then we came home and the Royal Commission had just started.. He was accompanied by his brother Louis as he walked past a throng of television cameras and . 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. In order to stake his claim to power in King's Cross, Danny "DK" Karam hires a group of young thugs. He extended his criminal activities and eventually became known as the Lebanese godfather. John Ibrahim's book, Last King of the Cross. "The fatal flaw in this legislation is that it disenfranchises voters in St. Louis," Hudson said. Bayeh was in court for sentencing on another matter, for allegedly hindering police in a separate incident three days before the February 2015 assault. None of the principals in the Pacific Mariner Cartel was ever arrested. I am a Muslim. I came in there and cut it all out. Together, they form a ruthless gang and set about taking over the King's Cross drug trade. Every job I got was eventually going to lead me to where I am now. On Wednesday, Mayor Tishaura Jones signed the St. Louis Safer Street bill (BB120), utilizing $40 . Download it here. Smalltime bouncer Benny Kassab has an audacious plan to become King of the Cross. S03:E03 - Kingdom Come . Tom Domican, left, is suing John Ibrahim for defamation. On that occasion, Bayeh was accused of tearing up a handwritten drug code when he was searched by police outside the same coffee shop. Hakim expanded his contacts among police and became a general intermediary between them and the underworld. 'There was no point in complaining about my sentence. 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. 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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. Not content with his position, Kassab begins distributing drugs secretly. Pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply commercial quantities of cocaine and heroin in 1995 and 1996. Once you find your place you know. At 15 John was stabbed during a brawl in the Cross. Kim Hollingsworth organises a strip show for a police charity. The employees would be responsible for any charges the police laid. 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. You need to be in jail, Ms Nesbitt said, according to a NSW Police statement of facts. 'I just wanted to get straight into it. By 'The money, the travel and the adventure had all been thrilling. Ive never sold drugs. Joe Dooley leaves the King's Cross police and enrolls at Goulburn Academy. Infrastructure work is very complicated. Instead of learning how to read books, youve got learn how to read people and see what they want from you. The sun is shining and John is sparkling with good humour. He is based in London and expects to live until he his 100. He bought a $525,000 house in Gladesville, spent tens of thousands of dollars on luxury goods and showered his wife, Tanya Michael, with overseas trips and expensive gifts. A cafe lifestyle by day and at night, entry into any Sydney club he chooses to visit. 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. It's being paid for with the American Rescue Plan Fund. Narrowly escaping a shooting in Bayeh's gaming room, John receives some advice from George Freeman. Louis Bayeh Managing Director & Founder at Hills Auto Centre Toongabbie, New South Wales, Australia 40 followers 39 connections Join to connect Hills Auto Centre Marist Brother's Parramatta. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. He pleaded guilty to the hindrance charge earlier this month, while prosecutors dropped a second charge of resisting police. Former Sydney drug kingpin Bill Bayeh has been granted parole after more than a decade in jail. He asks Haken to do something about it because I aint making nothing. Political staffer Sally Rugg has ramped up her legal fight against teal independent Monique Ryan after an attempt at mediation failed. Young waitress Kim Hollingsworth turns to prostitution after she discovers her abusive boyfriend Trent has stolen money from her. 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