Frank Hakim, who emigrated to Australia at the age of 20 or so, was the first prominent Lebanese criminal. We do the same things every day. 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. He is based in London and expects to live until he his 100. "The fatal flaw in this legislation is that it disenfranchises voters in St. Louis," Hudson said. Sydney's Kings Cross identity Bill Bayeh, 58, has been fined $1,500 He was unaware of the ban from Star Casino when he entered the venue His lawyer on Wednesday told court the businessman was. Upon his release Staunton took himself to Bali then Amsterdam where he met two mysterious drug traffickers called Bram and Manfred who saw potential in him. His friends (and there are many) call him the most wonderful person in the world. Staunton still works in security, hospitality and logistics and as a bodyguard to A-list celebrities. Hed been cruising its streets since he was a schoolboy, piling into a car with a group of friends looking for action. Im going to shove a dildo up your arse, he allegedly said. 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. By A local bum holds the door open when he sees John, who has been known to sling him a $50 note. ST. LOUIS (KMOV) - St. Louis City SC spent Wednesday afternoon packing up more than 1,600 meals for Operation Food Search. And sorry for the victims Ive caused trouble to.. Staunton was again brought unstuck by an undercover cop and was arrested in January 1997 by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Bill's connections and jobs at similar companies. She also said the city was in the early stages of looking at if the city should staff a non-police traffic enforcement unit. Neither proved to be true and he launched legal proceedings, suing for up to $750,000 in damages from the state. I just want to get on with my life, he said. For more information please click here. Theyre more important than money, John confides. 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. In seeming retaliation, Johns attitude on the witness stand remained one degree short of insolence. Tanned, fit and small in stature, John has full lips, sleepy eyes and a subtly engaging persona. His classroom became the streets of Kings Cross and like any student, some lessons were hard to learn. 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. Former Kings Cross underworld figure and convicted drug dealer Bill Bayeh is to be released on parole. In Kings Cross because there were so many people there was a bigger majority. We looked like Martians. Judge Christie noted the Commissioner's opposition, but said the Probation and Parole Service and the Serious Offenders Review Council supported Bayeh's release. John Ibrahim's book, Last King of the Cross. I went back home for three days (last year) with Charlie Staunton. 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. My brother Sam and I have always been pretty healthy. There is not much we can do if he is running a legal business, said a police source. A JP had to sign the warrant necessary for a raid on suspected illegal gaming premises. It is crisscrossed with scars. Bill Bayeh - a major character in last year's Underbelly TV series - will start a new career as a fruit and vegetable seller. Bayeh was in court for sentencing on another matter, for allegedly hindering police in a separate incident three days before the February 2015 assault. Hakim expanded his contacts among police and became a general intermediary between them and the underworld. 2023, Charter Communications, all rights reserved. He was recorded instructing one of his standover men to tell a fellow drug dealer, Russell Townsend, that he ''cannot sell the nose thing any more and if he will not he will get a beating'' and warning another that there would be ''big bang bang soon''. It was a very different image of Bayeh from that of his heyday. And when he speaks, the people around him listen. Theres nothing about alcohol that does anything for me. 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In the course of them doing their job theyve got to stickybeak everywhere, he says. 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. Ill show you how to do it, she tells John. 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. "I just want to make a living like everybody else," said Bayeh. The sun is shining and John is sparkling with good humour. Trevor Haken's alcoholism takes a toll on his marriage and his ability to manage police corruption. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. An angry Kim Hollingsworth returns to Sydney from Adelaide, intending on suing the NSW Police. He received compensation for his injuries but will not say how much, just that it wasnt a lot. 'You Australians are a hard lot,' Trump said to him. Bill Bayeh has bought a share in iconic strip joint Love Machine, with the refurbished venue set to open again later this month. ST. LOUIS-On 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. Its all who you know. A restaurant burned by unreliable workers has bluntly advertised what theyre looking for on a sign hung outside their front door. He paid police to protect at least 24 gaming clubs and often entertained police officers. 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. When John changes into a sports singlet for the gym he reveals a worn band which he wears around the top of his arm. Ibrahim and Staunton saw some 'wonderful tennis' and even enjoyed strawberries and cream. Bill and Louis Bayeh fight off threats to their drug dealing empire. I just had to waste time and plod along until I got there. He was arrested in 1996 after giving evidence at the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption. Thats where you belong, John says. See more at www.tennews.com.au Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. They go home, theyve got social lives, they go out. It wasnt for me. We eat at the same places and we go to the same clubs, he says. Staunton's playboy lifestyle came to a halt with his defiant appearance before the Wood Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service in June 1995. Learn More. Bill Bayeh was in 1996 sentenced to 15 years jail for heroin and cocaine dealing. The lounge room, covered in thick white carpet, is clean but untidy, giving the impression of an archetypal boys house. 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. Kim Hollingsworth's police friend, Sergeant Dave, abandons her after she "dobs in" to Internal Affairs. Russell Townsend, described in Royal Commission evidence as an alleged drug dealer, is a friend and gym partner. I bluffed well for a long time when I was 18. The team stuffed backpacks with meals to tide children over the weekend . It is a rental property, the owner a widow and friend of the family. Former Kings Cross underworld boss Bill Bayeh has walked free from prison after 15 years behind bars. 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. 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. Theyve got everything you and I have.. However, he appeared quite street-savvy and capable of verbal manipulation at all levels.''. According to John, the then owner was being stood over by local heavies and ripped off by his managers. And that flag should be saluted any time. It was in everyones best interests (that I buy into the club), John says. THE former king of the Kings Cross strip has returned to what he knows best: The strip club business. Staunton was first stationed at inner-city Redfern where he witnessed policing practices which quickly made him question his choice of employment. Staunton, whose international criminal partners knew him as 'The Prince', has now written about his colourful life in a book called The Good Bloke. I learned how to read, I learned how to write. He was arrested in 1996 after giving evidence at the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption. John lives here with the Tunnels restaurant manager, who was first employed as a kitchen hand at the club after moving from China to Australia six years ago. He faces strict parole conditions including counselling and drug testing, and has been ordered to stay away from Kings Cross. 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. If you're a friend of mine you're there forever.'. Once I was in, the club paid for itself. Bayeh was given a minimum sentence of 15 years in jail for cocaine and heroin trafficking. It feels good that Im given the chance to just walk anywhere I want, he said. 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. These new "customers" (cops) are a bunch of noobs!To support the channel and my legal fund check out these options below:1. Its money thats all accounted for. The next night Packer sent a minion to reward Staunton with an envelope full of $100 notes. BAYEH CHARGED FOR RESISTING ARREST AFTER RIPPING UP NOTE Leanne Edelsten is now an intensive care nurse at St Vincent's Hospital. 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. Can you turn it up a little, he jokes above the laughter of his friends. In every station you get two or three corrupt coppers. 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. , updated Kim Hollingsworth's colourful past comes back to haunt her. 'I'm a happy man,' the grandfather-of-four says. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. 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. Called to give evidence about his relationship with police and criminals including Bayeh, Staunton refused to speak and was jailed for contempt. I dont need to tell anyone how I got them. On his rise as a businessman in Kings Cross, John is more forthcoming. Of his now-shelved fruit shop plans, he said: It didnt happen. He was also filmed on 12 occasions preparing some 1500 caps of cocaine, valued at $90,000. Mayor Tishaura Jones . I know a lot of people in Sydney. His sentencing was adjourned so psychiatric evidence can be gathered. 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. I knew I wanted to be in the nightclub and restaurant industry.. Today the War on Drugs continues to affect many lives in ways ranging from the trivial to the profound. Were working to restore it. Bayeh was a major player in the Kings Cross drugs scene during the 1990s. An old, sloping billiard table is the living rooms centrepiece, closed in on two sides by leather couches. Upon his release Staunton was deportedand made his way to London. Aldermanic Board President Megan Green said traffic education and enforcement would be a priority for the next session of the Board when new members are seated after the April elections. 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. Here is an entire list of people with the Last Name El undefined. While supporting Bayeh's release, the officer said: ''Mr Bayeh attempted to present a facade of a naive man, eager to charm and please. 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. Benny Kassab turns to Jim Egan and Trevor Haken for assistance in light of Shaka and Norm shooting at Louis Bayeh's house. One belongs to John, the other to a friend. Hit the names to obtain what you want to know. 'I've a million acquaintances but I've got a handful of friends. 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. If Mr Domican is found to be entitled to any damages, Mr Ibrahim argues they should be minimised by his "bad reputation", among other factors. But on his release from prison his power was much weakened. 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. Don't miss out on the headlines from NSW. Aware that he is being investigated by the Wood Royal Commission, Dennis Kelly dobs in Jim Egan to investigators. I knew them all and they wouldnt have been standing over my business. Not content with his position, Kassab begins distributing drugs secretly. The years have taken a toll on Bill Bayeh. Kim Hollingsworth continues to risk her life to expose Eddie Gould's corruption. 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