'My life has been a bit more interesting than most,' Staunton writes. Neither proved to be true and he launched legal proceedings, suing for up to $750,000 in damages from the state. 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. Click on the image above to see a map of Sydney showing famous crime locations. Impressed by Ibrahim, Freeman offers him a job as a bouncer. ', Long-time friend and former Kings Cross nightclub boss John Ibrahim sums up Staunton on the book's cover: 'When Charlie's good he's great. 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. Well, youre the new lifeblood of the drug industry in Kings Cross, arent you? Mr Agius asked John after the tape was played. If you're a friend of mine you're there forever.'. 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This resulted in the outbreak of a minor ''gang war'', culminating in the 1993 shooting of his brother Louis Bayeh by a rival dealer. This will not be work that we can complete overnight. More than once he was cut by the teachers cane. "I just want to make a living like everybody else," said Bayeh. It is a rental property, the owner a widow and friend of the family. Speaking outside the hearing, one of Bayeh's other brothers said he was pleased at the result. Johns club The Tunnel is still in chaos after more than a month of renovations but he remains optimistic. 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. Good cops, bad cops, strippers, gamblers, gunmen, dealers, bouncers, dreamers and bagmen. You need a vibrator up your arse, Bayeh responded. 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'. Those who have crossed him no doubt have a different story to tell. 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. (Spectrum News/Gregg Palermo). Closed for two months after a minor liquor licensing violation, John took the opportunity to put a fresh face on the club. These new "customers" (cops) are a bunch of noobs!To support the channel and my legal fund check out these options below:1. In order to escape conviction, Trevor volunteers to become a "supergrass" and expose corruption in King's Cross. 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. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. Friends are very overrated, he says, taking a long gulp of his coffee. Asked if his brother would be able to stay out of trouble, he said ''of course''. Staunton, whose international criminal partners knew him as 'The Prince', has now written about his colourful life in a book called The Good Bloke. 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. 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. A fruit vendor gives him two nectarines for free. 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On Monday, Missouri senators held a hearing on a bill to remove some of Gardner's authority. Debbie Webb leaves King's Cross police and allies herself with her husband Greg Locke and politician John Hatton. Once you find your place you know. He was also filmed on 12 occasions preparing some 1500 caps of cocaine, valued at $90,000. All times AEDT (GMT +11). Kim Hollingsworth is expelled from the Goulburn Academy for failing to disclose her work as a prostitute. He (the owner) was getting robbed right left and centre. We are not on the dole bludging, we want to do this right.. There is not much we can do if he is running a legal business, said a police source. Benny Kassab turns to Jim Egan and Trevor Haken for assistance in light of Shaka and Norm shooting at Louis Bayeh's house. The sun is shining and John is sparkling with good humour. Not long afterwards John dropped out of school. Staunton later worked inthe Modus Operandi Unit of the Criminal Investigation Branch, with the Highway Patrol and the Tactical Response Group (TRG). 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. My brother Sam and I have always been pretty healthy. Because of the urgings of his friend to co-operate with the investigation, John is faced with the unenviable choice of "dobbing in" Townsend and losing the respect of Sydney's criminal underworld. The band supports a small triangular leather pouch, inside of which is family shit. 2015 Sydney Crime Museum. I didnt want to be there at one stage.. Convicted drug dealer Bill Bayeh has been released on parole after 15 years in prison for heroin trafficking in Sydney's Kings Cross. Chief Inspector Dennis Kelly applies to enter the National Crime Authority in order to improve his resume in the race for police commissioner. Could this really be a coincidence? John has only been to his parents country of birth, Lebanon, once. 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. JOHN Ibrahim likes to think he was destined to own a Kings Cross nightclub. John was 16 when he first started working on the door of Images nightclub at Parramatta. Board Bill 120 funds the design and implementation of traffic calming and road improvements for completed traffic studies in the city, funds traffic calming and ADA improvements for the Grand, Union, Goodfellow, Jefferson and Kingshighway corridors, and addresses safety improvements at the top 10 city crash locations. It didnt end well. Bayeh was wrongfully jailed for two weeks in 2012 when authorities mistakenly believed he breached parole by travelling to north Queensland. An old, sloping billiard table is the living rooms centrepiece, closed in on two sides by leather couches. Tom Domican, left, is suing John Ibrahim for defamation. 02:50 GMT 23 Jul 2019. Theyre more important than money, John confides. 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. 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. But its not only police. As John cruises up and down Darlinghurst Rd looking for a friend, he is greeted with casual waves. But the NSW Corrective Services Commissioner still argued against Bayeh's release yesterday. So it would seem, but no, I am not, came Johns cocky reply. While there seems to be no shortage of female friends in Johns life, he says he is not prepared for a serious commitment. Bayeh is also keen to point out there will be a zero tolerance to drugs at the venue. /news/article/bill-bayeh-arrested-after-nurse-assault/l48mi2g48 'I'm not running from anything I've done. Coles has announced it has scrapped a major Covid-19 requirement for all its staff. Sydneys very small. Its not money thats been laundered. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. 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. John Ibrahim's book, Last King of the Cross. 'I'd weighed my options and taken the risk. Thats what I think. She also said the city was in the early stages of looking at if the city should staff a non-police traffic enforcement unit. St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones signed the St. Louis Safer Streets bill Wednesday. 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