Add Category
Bill Bayeh will have to continue psychological treatment as part of the bond conditions. Picture: Dan Himbrechts/AAP
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.
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.
The argument erupted after intensive care nurse Leanne Nesbitt passed Bayeh on her way to work at St Vincent’s Hospital about 6.40pm on a Sunday in February 2015.
Ms Nesbitt said nothing as Bayeh, now 57, greeted her from his outdoor table at the Five Boroughs coffee shop on Darlinghurst Road.
But she then stopped and turned to confront him about comments he’d made some weeks earlier, sparking an argument that was recorded on her phone.
“Never speak to me on the street. You need to be in jail,†Ms Nesbitt said, according to a NSW Police statement of facts. “They should never have let you out, you’re a criminal.’’
“You need a vibrator up your arse,†Bayeh responded.
“You’ve got a tape going, haven’t ya?†Bayeh then jumped from his seat, according to the facts presented at the court.
“I’m going to shove a dildo up your arse,†he allegedly said. Ms Nesbitt feared for her safety and called police.
In a recorded interview, Bayeh admitted to a confrontation but denied pushing her or saying anything about a vibrator or dildo. His sentencing was adjourned so psychiatric evidence can be gathered.
Bayeh was in court for sentencing on another matter, for allegedly hindering police in a separate incident three days before the February 2015 assault. On that occasion, Bayeh was accused of tearing up a handwritten “drug code†when he was searched by police outside the same coffee shop.
He pleaded guilty to the hindrance charge earlier this month, while prosecutors dropped a second charge of resisting police.
Bayeh didn’t react as he was also given a $400 fine for hindering police. 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.