The Snitch: Sanaa Mehajer starts charity to help women affected by DV
A year after leaving a volatile relationship with a bikie enforcer, Salim Mehajer’s Sanaa has started her own charity to help women impacted by poverty and domestic violence.
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It’s been tough times recently for jailbird property developer Salim Mehajer but we bring better news about one of his glamorous sisters.
A year after leaving a volatile relationship with a bikie enforcer, Sanaa Mehajer has started her own charity to help women impacted by poverty and domestic violence.
The youngest of the Mehajer clan, Sanaa ended her short marriage to Nomads bikie gang figure Moudi Tajjour with an apprehended violence order.
According to reports at the time, Tajjour blasted his new wife with vile verbal abuse, and pulled her hair when she tried to get out of the car during one particularly terrifying argument.
No charges were laid, and Tajjour did not admit fault.
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The conflict first emerged during the pair’s honeymoon in Southeast Asia and continued when they returned home. Sanaa moved back into her parents’ home in Lidcombe and took out an AVO. She has kept a comparatively low profile ever since and spent time in Lebanon.
This week her new charity — Girls on a Mission — burst on to social media platforms.
According to the website, GOAM is an emergency resort for women affected by domestic violence and poverty, and provides maintenance, healthcare products and legal aid support.
She has taken a different path to her brother, Salim, who this week walked from Cooma jail after spending 11 months inside for electoral fraud.
Well done and good luck to her, we say.
FAST JUSTICE
It’s the police’s new secret weapon in fighting crime: fast food.
We’re told officers used a particularly unorthodox method to make a breakthrough in one of the state’s most serious and violent criminal cases recently.
They managed to coax a prison inmate to make a full confession and drop the names of at least one serious crime figure as being responsible for pulling the strings on the crime.
How did they do it?
Well, the inmate agreed to tell the police all this information if they simply ducked down to KFC and brought him back a Zinger burger meal.
Sure, we know they can be pretty tasty but it doesn’t say much about prison food, does it?
We’re even told of unconfirmed reports that the deal almost fell through when the police arrived at the jail with a small chips. A rookie error if it’s true.
We can’t identify the inmate or the details of the case at this stage because of a plethora of non-publication orders, but stay tuned if that changes.
The whole thing begs the question: What would the cops have got if they threw in a caramel sundae from Maccas?
GUESS WHO?
Which senior police officer’s romantic indiscretions have seen him sent to the force-equivalent of purgatory?
The blow-up between the officer and his now-former wife has become a favourite pub tale thanks to the grievances being aired on social media.
The Snitch is reliably informed the wife discovered her husband (allegedly) had an affair while on a work trip to the US. She vented the betrayal on Facebook in a series of bar-no-punches posts that let the world know what the officer had been accused of.
“She went to town,” one colleague remarked.
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It’s understood the public airing of dirty laundry got so out of hand it caught the eye of the Police Commissioner, members of parliament and Sydney business figures.
Given the officer’s past roles, it wasn’t uncommon for him to rub shoulders with community leaders.
While the officer’s marriage disintegrated he managed to cling on to his career — although was moved into a lower profile position.
Talented, experienced and a favourite among the rank and file, he seemed like a shoo-in for a promotion. However it’s generally accepted that won’t happen any time soon now.
BAR FIGHT
The battle for who controls the landmark Sydney Opera Bar is set to heat up next week.
Celebrity chef David Evans launched a multimillion-dollar lawsuit in the NSW Supreme Court late last year alleging rival Matt Moran won the rights to run the bar thanks to an unfair rigged tender process.
The matter is back in court tomorrow and some juicy financial details look set to come out. Stay tuned.
JURY MEMBER
We all know trials can drag on, but the strange effects they have on jury members never cease to amaze The Snitch.
One of our correspondents reported that the length of a recent trial in Central West NSW tested one juror’s mental health to the extreme.
The case was halted when he refused to participate in deliberations. The foreman passed a note to the judge that explained the situation. It read: “One juror is not participating at all and is lying on the floor sleeping and he said, ‘I am going to get my c..k out’.”
We’re a bit lost for words on this one but rest assured we will not be making a joke about a hung jury.
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