A restaurant burned by unreliable workers has bluntly advertised what theyre looking for on a sign hung outside their front door. You have to be where all the action is. The next night Packer sent a minion to reward Staunton with an envelope full of $100 notes. ST. LOUIS - The city of St. Louis will invest more than $60 million to try to make streets and sidewalks safer. On that occasion, Bayeh was accused of tearing up a handwritten drug code when he was searched by police outside the same coffee shop. I know a lot of people in Sydney. Ibrahim and Staunton saw some 'wonderful tennis' and even enjoyed strawberries and cream. 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. Closed for two months after a minor liquor licensing violation, John took the opportunity to put a fresh face on the club. Speaking outside the hearing, one of Bayeh's other brothers said he was pleased at the result. Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. By Why not, I grew up here, he said when asked why he had returned to Kings Cross. You need a vibrator up your arse, Bayeh responded. Youve got to know whats happening. He must also undergo regular drug and alcohol testing and psychological assessment. Life after prison looms for King of the Cross. To an outsider, the life of John Ibrahim is surreal. I dont need to tell anyone how I got them. On his rise as a businessman in Kings Cross, John is more forthcoming. He extended his criminal activities and eventually became known as the Lebanese godfather. 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. (AP) Missouri 's governor would control St. Louis police under a bill advanced . 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". It primarily depicts the organized crimes in Kings Cross and the police corruption leading up to the 1995 Wood Royal Commission. No one really knew that I didnt know what I was doing, except me.. ''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. Two video games stand idly on opposite sides of the room. It was a very different image of Bayeh from that of his heyday. 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. 9NEWS reports the 56-year-old reportedly became involved in a heated argument with Leanne Nesbitt, now an intensive care nurse, outside St Vincent's Hospital last night at about 6.30pm. Our Spectrum News app is the most convenient way to get the stories that matter to you. Staunton still works in security, hospitality and logistics and as a bodyguard to A-list celebrities. Ive done my time many times over for my charges. Walks free from Silverwater prison after minimum 15-year term for drug trafficking expires in July 2011. Yeah, I am the leader in some ways. His only regret is the time he spent away from his two sons, Danial and Timothy. John has only been to his parents country of birth, Lebanon, once. Sydney was founded by criminals who for years formed a majority of its population. 'I couldn't wait,' he tells Daily Mail Australia. If you're a friend of mine you're there forever.'. He died in 2005, and over 400 people attended his funeral at Redfern. In 1999 Bayeh was the subject of an attempted assassination outside a restaurant in Narwee. 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?". Russell Townsend, described in Royal Commission evidence as an alleged drug dealer, is a friend and gym partner. "I just want to make a living like everybody else," said Bayeh. 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. John was 16 when he first started working on the door of Images nightclub at Parramatta. Its money thats all accounted for. In 2001, he was sentenced to another three years after pleading guilty to demanding money with menaces from two brothel keepers and for supplying cocaine and heroin. , updated Bananas, they go off very quick.. 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. Bayeh was a major player in the Kings Cross drugs scene during the 1990s. The employees would be responsible for any charges the police laid. FORMER Kings Cross underworld identity Bill Bayeh has walked out of Sydney's Silverwater jail after serving 15 years for drug trafficking. And sorry for the victims Ive caused trouble to.. They split and she lives overseas, although he still wears her ring on his wedding finger. 2023, Charter Communications, all rights reserved. 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. Bayeh was given a minimum sentence of 15 years in jail for cocaine and heroin trafficking. 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''. I paid the majority of it later. Weve got so many favours owing to us weve lost count.. It was a gift from his grandparents and it keeps his enemies away. In seeming retaliation, Johns attitude on the witness stand remained one degree short of insolence. She also said the city was in the early stages of looking at if the city should staff a non-police traffic enforcement unit. He was also accused of being in the company of Melbourne underworld figure Mick Gatto. In London the pair jumped the queue to get into Wimbledon when Ibrahim bought tickets for the 16 tennis fans behind them. As a young constable Charlie Staunton dreamed of one day becoming commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force. In 1999, he was sentenced to a 15-year minimum term - backdated to 1996 - which expires on July 17. Then you go home, have a shower and sleep very well.. Russell Townsend, described in Royal Commission evidence as an alleged drug dealer, is a friend and gym partner. We used to kick box together. On both levels of the house the curtains are drawn across the windows. He asks Haken to do something about it because I aint making nothing. 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. All times AEDT (GMT +11). The Republican-led House on Wednesday gave initial approval to the legislation. Bill Bayeh was jailed for 15 years for drug trafficking in the 1990s.Credit:Nick Moir. It is crisscrossed with scars. You cant not have a relationship with coppers and own a business. But the NSW Corrective Services Commissioner still argued against Bayeh's release yesterday. In it Bayeh alleges that Russell (Townsend), Sam Ibrahim and John: They got the whole street. His rise from such depths was dramatic. Ms Nesbitt said nothing as Bayeh, now 57, greeted her from his outdoor table at the Five Boroughs coffee shop on Darlinghurst Road. Hit the names to obtain what you want to know. 'My life has been a bit more interesting than most,' Staunton writes. 'I just wanted to get straight into it. It is a thirteen-part series loosely based on real events that stemmed from the mile-long nightclub/ red light district in the Sydney suburb of Kings Cross, also known as the "Golden Mile", between 1988 and 1999. Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. 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. The Missouri House already passed a similar bill. 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. At 15 John was stabbed during a brawl in the Cross. 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. Everybody knows everybody. But she then stopped and turned to confront him about comments hed made some weeks earlier, sparking an argument that was recorded on her phone. See more at www.tennews.com.au 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. When Bill's business suffers as a result, tensions rise between Bill and his brother, Louis Bayeh. Ive got the best education money could buy. 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. 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. 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. Thats where you belong, John says. Convicted cocaine dealer Bill Bayeh and his brother Louie are old friends of the family. It took decades to build the infrastructure that we use every single day. 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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. They should never have let you out, youre a criminal.. All times AEDT (GMT +11). 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. Bill Bayeh leaving the Wood Royal Commission after his arrest for supplying drugs.Credit:Nick Moir. 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. 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. There was not much point in me going to school. This had hardly ever happened before there was an unwritten law among Sydneys criminals that family was to be kept out of business disputes. Ive never sold drugs. It's not hard to understand why. 'There was no point in complaining about my sentence. Bayeh was arrested in 1996 for dealing heroin and cocaine from the once-notorious Cosmopolitan Cafe in Kings Cross. We went to state level.. A friend embarks on a monologue about the imprudence of talking to the press and John quiets him with a simple Thatll do. Newcomer Benny Kassab starts dealing drugs in competition with the Bayeh brothers. 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. Kim Hollingsworth's police friend, Sergeant Dave, abandons her after she "dobs in" to Internal Affairs. There is not much we can do if he is running a legal business, said a police source. He is vehement when he says he does not deal drugs. Theyre more important than money, John confides. '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. I just want to make a living like everybody else, said Bayeh. Could this really be a coincidence? Theyve got everything you and I have.. I've never hurt anyone.'. What Bill did was illegal and unacceptable but he has apologised and served his time and now the fact of the matter is, the two of us know the streets and this is the industry we know. Hakim expanded his contacts among police and became a general intermediary between them and the underworld. 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. Smalltime bouncer Benny Kassab has an audacious plan to become King of the Cross. Bill Bayeh was jailed for 15 years for drug trafficking in the 1990s. 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. 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. 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. /news/article/bill-bayeh-arrested-after-nurse-assault/l48mi2g48 Anything else was probably a waste of time. While there seems to be no shortage of female friends in Johns life, he says he is not prepared for a serious commitment. 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