In 1988 they were all to be found on the Golden Mile. I went back home for three days (last year) with Charlie Staunton. Staunton was sentenced to nine and a half years and served three in Canadian prisons where French was spoken more widely than English. 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. The clubs turned over close to $6m in the six years its been there. Staunton was born in the back of a taxi on London's Fulham Palace Road in 1958 and moved to Australia with his Irish Catholic family when he was seven. 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. Louis Bayeh swears revenge on Benny Kassab's boys Shaka and Norm Korbage for shooting up his house. ST. LOUIS - The City of St. Louis is making its largest investment in road and pedestrian safety. '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. 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. Wrongfully jailed for two weeks in 2012 when authorities mistakenly believed he breached parole by travelling to north Queensland. Bram and Manfred had never told Staunton the details of their business but US and Canandian authorities alleged they had trafficked 25 tonnes of Pakistani hashish worth about $1billion. They should never have let you out, youre a criminal.. In 1998, after disposing of Danny Karam, drug dealer Michael Kanaan devises a plan to murder John Ibrahim and his bodyguard, Kiwi Steve, in order to divert attention. 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. Soon after that, Karam was killed by his own gang members. Bill Bayeh leaving the Wood Royal Commission after his arrest for supplying drugs. I thought "I'm going to save the world - this is great - I can be a superhero here".'. In order to stake his claim to power in King's Cross, Danny "DK" Karam hires a group of young thugs. I bumped into them on the street and we shook hands, he said with a smile. 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. 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. As a young constable Charlie Staunton dreamed of one day becoming commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force. Ms Nesbitt said nothing as Bayeh, now 57, greeted her from his outdoor table at the Five Boroughs coffee shop on Darlinghurst Road. 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. 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. John is out on the balcony bantering with his female assistant, a longtime friend. 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. Mr Ibrahim claims he took over the "business of protecting businesses" from the Bayehs, prompting the Cosmopolitan Cafe meeting at which Mr Domican was present. After leaving school John began working in Kings Cross at the Tunnel Cabaret nightclub. "It is to be inferred that [Mr Domican] had been retained by Louis Bayeh to intimidate [Ibrahim] in order to protect Mr Bayeh's share of the protection market in Kings Cross," documents filed by lawyers for Mr Ibrahim claim. Ive got the best education money could buy. Never speak to me on the street. In 1999, he was sentenced to a 15-year minimum term - backdated to 1996 - which expires on July 17. Its not money thats been laundered. Do the crime, do the time; I just had to get on with it.'. 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. Thats where you belong, John says. Kim Hollingsworth continues to risk her life to expose Eddie Gould's corruption. I just had to waste time and plod along until I got there. In Kings Cross because there were so many people there was a bigger majority. 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. The Kings Cross detectives get into a confrontation with some thugs and illegally rough them up. My brother Sam and I have always been pretty healthy. The Good Bloke by Charles Staunton is published by Pan Macmillan and is available from Tuesday, July 23, for $32.99. 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. They were described by a police officer at the time as the biggest drug dealers in Kings Cross. John moved out of the Parramatta home he shared with his mother, his brothers and his sisters four years ago. 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. Believe it or not I did very well at school but it just wasnt for me. I have worked with some pretty funny people. A JP had to sign the warrant necessary for a raid on suspected illegal gaming premises. Smart and casual, he exudes a faint air of wealth. 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. Bayeh was a major player in the Kings Cross drugs scene during the 1990s. But the NSW Corrective Services Commissioner still argued against Bayeh's release yesterday. Daily Mail Australia is appealing after a court ruled the online publication had defamed Erin Molan in an article and tweets which falsely portrayed her as racist. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. She also said the city was in the early stages of looking at if the city should staff a non-police traffic enforcement unit. Bayeh is also keen to point out there will be a zero tolerance to drugs at the venue. He was shot three times but survived. Follow the action from the third Test between India and Australia in Delhi in our live blog. After spending the previous night watching videos with friends, John is in a buoyant mood. The argument erupted after intensive care nurse Leanne Nesbitt passed Bayeh on her way to work at St Vincents Hospital about 6.40pm on a Sunday in February 2015. 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. 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.'. Closed for two months after a minor liquor licensing violation, John took the opportunity to put a fresh face on the club. He paid police to protect at least 24 gaming clubs and often entertained police officers. He was also filmed on 12 occasions preparing some 1500 caps of cocaine, valued at $90,000. There was not much point in me going to school. People think police are machines. It was owned by the father of one of his friends and he lied about his age to get the job. "I just want to make a living like everybody else," said Bayeh. Of his now-shelved fruit shop plans, he said: It didnt happen. ''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. Bayeh was wrongfully jailed for two weeks in 2012 when authorities mistakenly believed he breached parole by travelling to north Queensland. 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. 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". Within a day of arriving in the city he found himself in the Ifield Hotel in Fulham where the first person he met was Howard Marks, one of the most notorious drug smugglers in the world. The employees would be responsible for any charges the police laid. 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. 'I've a million acquaintances but I've got a handful of friends. John has only been to his parents country of birth, Lebanon, once. People just dont want to go there. While behind bars Staunton secured protection from Canadian bikies through his old friend Felix Lyle and managed to regularly speak on the phone to Bayeh, who was in an Australian prison. Our Spectrum News app is the most convenient way to get the stories that matter to you. And sorry for the victims Ive caused trouble to.. 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