Frank Hakim, who emigrated to Australia at the age of 20 or so, was the first prominent Lebanese criminal. 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. 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?". 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. When Bill's business suffers as a result, tensions rise between Bill and his brother, Louis Bayeh. Sydney was founded by criminals who for years formed a majority of its population. With another club in Surfers Paradise, also called The Tunnel, he wanted to free up his commitments in Sydney. Taken into custody in 1996 on leaving the witness box at the Wood royal commission into police corruption. Kim Hollingsworth organises a strip show for a police charity. They should never have let you out, youre a criminal.. Ive done my time many times over for my charges. We used to kick box together. Yeah, I am the leader in some ways. 'They did, however, break more laws than any of my friends outside the force.'. Two video games stand idly on opposite sides of the room. 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. If you're a friend of mine you're there forever.'. It was one of the first of what was to become a common form of violence and intimidation by Lebanese gangsters. Asked if his brother would be able to stay out of trouble, he said ''of course''. 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. A friend embarks on a monologue about the imprudence of talking to the press and John quiets him with a simple Thatll do. 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. You cant not be there and see whats going on. Weve got so many favours owing to us weve lost count.. Mayor Tishaura Jones . Called to give evidence about his relationship with police and criminals including Bayeh, Staunton refused to speak and was jailed for contempt. 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. Smalltime bouncer Benny Kassab has an audacious plan to become King of the Cross. His sentencing was adjourned so psychiatric evidence can be gathered. Thats where you belong, John says. There is not much we can do if he is running a legal business, said a police source. Were working to restore it. These new "customers" (cops) are a bunch of noobs!To support the channel and my legal fund check out these options below:1. Hakim was used by the Gaming Squad to sign warrants for almost every raid it conducted from 1971 to 1979. 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. 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. Ive got the best education money could buy. We went to state level.. All times AEDT (GMT +11). 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. When John changes into a sports singlet for the gym he reveals a worn band which he wears around the top of his arm. However, Louis Bayeh uses his own police contacts to successfully oppose bail for the duo, causing Kassab to look like a liar. It was owned by the father of one of his friends and he lied about his age to get the job. Successful criminals who were not arrested often died. 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. 'There was no point in complaining about my sentence. Well before his death, though, he had handed on the flame to another criminal of Lebanese descent, Louis Bayeh. But a group always has a dominant personality.. We were supposed to be there a week but we couldnt stand it so we left after three days. He extended his criminal activities and eventually became known as the Lebanese godfather. Impressed by Ibrahim, Freeman offers him a job as a bouncer. Friends are very overrated, he says, taking a long gulp of his coffee. I bluffed well for a long time when I was 18. His principal once told him he would wind up dead or very rich. They are proof of a violent youth but John says simply: Theyre my scars. Cigarettes make me dizzy, he admits. The wars over but the wars still inside the people. 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. Jones said the city was working on a plan that would safeguard the privacy of the images, address due process, and where they would be placed. Good cops, bad cops, strippers, gamblers, gunmen, dealers, bouncers, dreamers and bagmen. ''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. By Debbie Webb leaves King's Cross police and allies herself with her husband Greg Locke and politician John Hatton. The Good Bloke by Charles Staunton is published by Pan Macmillan and is available from Tuesday, July 23, for $32.99. 2015 Sydney Crime Museum. Everyones miserable. Together, they form a ruthless gang and set about taking over the King's Cross drug trade. 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. 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. Now though, his focus is firmly on Love Machine and the entertainment game. Dressed in beige jeans and a blue and white checked shirt, John is the quintessential young eastern suburbs entrepreneur. Convicted cocaine dealer Bill Bayeh and his brother Louie are old friends of the family. Akela Lacy. "I just want to make a living like everybody else," said Bayeh. /news/article/bill-bayeh-arrested-after-nurse-assault/l48mi2g48 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 return for the bribes, the police would tip off Bayeh about raids on his premises. The 1990s saw the rise of many other powerful and violent Lebanese figures, including Louis Bayehs brother Bill. The team stuffed backpacks with meals to tide children over the weekend . According to John, the then owner was being stood over by local heavies and ripped off by his managers. 'My life has been a bit more interesting than most,' Staunton writes. Bayeh was a major player in the Kings Cross drugs scene during the 1990s. MAIN SOURCE: Blood Money by Clive Small and Tom Gilling; The Prince and the Premier by David Hickie. 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. It cost me $70,000 to buy 20 per cent. Bill Bayeh was jailed for 15 years for drug trafficking in the 1990s.Credit:Nick Moir. I dont believe in drugs, he says. 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''. Within a year the new leader, Michael Kanaan, and some 50 others associated with the gang had been arrested. 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. But for all his street savviness, Bayeh had pushed things too far. In London the pair jumped the queue to get into Wimbledon when Ibrahim bought tickets for the 16 tennis fans behind them. Please try again later. 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. The clubs turned over close to $6m in the six years its been there. 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. He was also filmed on 12 occasions preparing some 1500 caps of cocaine, valued at $90,000. Staunton was adept at solving legal problems for his associates and became well-known on the Sydney nightclub and music scene. "How is branch stacking relevant to gang wars? FORMER Kings Cross underworld identity Bill Bayeh has walked out of Sydney's Silverwater jail after serving 15 years for drug trafficking. It took decades to build the infrastructure that we use every single day. He pleaded guilty to the hindrance charge earlier this month, while prosecutors dropped a second charge of resisting police. Neither proved to be true and he launched legal proceedings, suing for up to $750,000 in damages from the state. People just dont want to go there. Yet in his own surroundings, the streets of Kings Cross, John is charming. It is a rental property, the owner a widow and friend of the family. Police were surprised to hear Bayeh was going back into business in the Cross. They go home, theyve got social lives, they go out. '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. The balcony gives way to a vista encompassing Sydney Heads and a massive expanse of deep blue ocean. '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. 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. He must also undergo regular drug and alcohol testing and psychological assessment. 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. 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''. I've never hurt anyone.'. Bananas, they go off very quick.. She also said the city was in the early stages of looking at if the city should staff a non-police traffic enforcement unit. 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". Forget Melrose Place, the Royal Commission is a better soapie, he grins. They were described by a police officer at the time as the biggest drug dealers in Kings Cross. He neither drinks nor smokes. And that flag should be saluted any time. An old, sloping billiard table is the living rooms centrepiece, closed in on two sides by leather couches. How can we protect people no matter how they choose to get around?. Many of those who came after Louis Bayeh did not last so long. Staunton later worked inthe Modus Operandi Unit of the Criminal Investigation Branch, with the Highway Patrol and the Tactical Response Group (TRG). 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. Some nights John goes fishing off the rocks. It is crisscrossed with scars. Dennis Kelly fights off competition from Gerry lloyd and Sid Hillier for the role of Police Commissioner. As John cruises up and down Darlinghurst Rd looking for a friend, he is greeted with casual waves. During the hearing, counsel for the Commissioner, Christopher Lonergan, referred to a pre-release report by Bayeh's probation and parole officer. John, it seems, is inclined to oversimplify the details of his existence. Narrowly escaping a shooting in Bayeh's gaming room, John receives some advice from George Freeman. Once I was in, the club paid for itself. Smalltime bouncer Benny Kassab has an audacious plan to become King of the Cross. My brother Sam and I have always been pretty healthy. 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. Ms Nesbitt said nothing as Bayeh, now 57, greeted her from his outdoor table at the Five Boroughs coffee shop on Darlinghurst Road. I am just trying to get my life back., Kings Cross underworld identity previously known as the King of the Cross. Its money thats all accounted for. So it would seem, but no, I am not, came Johns cocky reply. 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But I still go home once a week to have a cup of tea with my mum, he says. What else am I going to do? he laughs. 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. 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. JOHN Ibrahim likes to think he was destined to own a Kings Cross nightclub. More than once he was cut by the teachers cane. Speaking outside the hearing, one of Bayeh's other brothers said he was pleased at the result. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. Wanting more from life than a nine to five job he joined the NSW Police Force in 1978 when he was 19. He is based in London and expects to live until he his 100. 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. You get an education at school but it doesnt help you when youre out dealing with people. Missouri's governor would once again have control over St. Louis police under a bill advancing in the state House. Benny Kassab suspects that he has a rat in his ranks. Former Kings Cross underworld boss Bill Bayeh has walked free from prison after 15 years behind bars. Here is an entire list of people with the Last Name El undefined. Johns older brother Hassam, known as Sam, told the Royal Commission he had been helping people out, including protecting drug dealers, around the Cross for years. 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. One reason is that energetic and ambitious men who have difficulty obtaining legitimate opportunities turn to illegal ones. Walks free from Silverwater prison after minimum 15-year term for drug trafficking expires in July 2011. The parole authority believed Bayeh had served a lengthy prison sentence compared to other sentences for crimes of a similar nature. If they dont salute, they are a bastard they no good soldier at all. However, the operation goes awry. California Consumer Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information, California Consumer Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. I knew them all and they wouldnt have been standing over my business. In order to stake his claim to power in King's Cross, Danny "DK" Karam hires a group of young thugs. 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.. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. Johns club The Tunnel is still in chaos after more than a month of renovations but he remains optimistic. Upon his release Staunton was deportedand made his way to London. S03:E06 - Women in Uniform. Theres corruption going on in every section where you could do somebody a good turn or a bad turn. Bayeh, 56, who was portrayed in Underbelly: The Golden Mile, spent 15 years in prison for cocaine and heroin trafficking. 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'. None of the principals in the Pacific Mariner Cartel was ever arrested. 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.. 'I do not have a thousand morals,' Staunton writes on page one of The Good Bloke. Long-time observers of the Cross say it was typical of the shameless bravado Bayeh then projected as he cruised the famous red-light district. 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. We are not on the dole bludging, we want to do this right.. 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. Impressed by Ibrahim, Freeman offers him a job as a bouncer. Can you turn it up a little, he jokes above the laughter of his friends. Newcomer Benny Kassab starts dealing drugs in competition with the Bayeh brothers. Bicycle guy is a True Blue Aussie! Premier vows to raise standards of states pollies, Liberals used Daley video to their advantage. ', Staunton says loyalty means everything to him. 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'm not running from anything I've done. Tax has been paid on it.. Soon after that, Karam was killed by his own gang members. This had hardly ever happened before there was an unwritten law among Sydneys criminals that family was to be kept out of business disputes. The document also alleges Mr Domican threatened an illegal poker machine supplier with violence in 1990 if he wasn't given money and access to the machines; and was sentenced to two months' hard labour in 1988 for possessing an unlicensed pistol. Tanned, fit and small in stature, John has full lips, sleepy eyes and a subtly engaging persona. 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. she said. In 1983 the Australian Federal Police tapped over 7,000 of Hakims conversations: 26 corruption investigations involving police ensued. I knew I wanted to be in the nightclub and restaurant industry.. He was arrested in 1996 after giving evidence at the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption. In it Bayeh alleges that Russell (Townsend), Sam Ibrahim and John: They got the whole street. Former Kings Cross underworld figure and convicted drug dealer Bill Bayeh is to be released on parole. In the course of them doing their job theyve got to stickybeak everywhere, he says. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. Bill Bayeh was in 1996 sentenced to 15 years jail for heroin and cocaine dealing. 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