The Snitch: Ahmed Jaghbir stepped into a pair of slippers for his arrest

Police officers often swoop on homes just after dawn and drag people to the station in their sleep attire — sometimes just their underwear. But one man decided he needed to accessorise.

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It’s a little in-joke for the cops when they make an arrest. Turn up at the target’s house before the sun comes up and drag their target past the cameras in whatever they wore to bed.

Sometimes it works out and the accused will appear on the news in their underpants, sometimes it doesn’t. Which brings us to Ahmed Jaghbir and his arrest over the alleged murder of underworld figure Kemel Barakat.

A previous arrest of a suspect in his underpants. Picture: Stewart McLean

Jaghbir is on trial in a judge-alone case in the NSW Supreme Court, charged with being an accessory before the fact. The court heard that when police turned up to Jaghbir’s home in November 2017, the officers knocked on the door.

Jaghbir opened the door wearing nothing but a pair of underpants, the court heard. The police informed Jaghbir that they were at the house to arrest and charge him.

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They also asked if there was anyone else there. “My wife. Do you mind if she gets dressed?” Jaghbir replied. The officers agreed to the request.

Jaghbir then had another request: “Can I put some shoes on because I don’t want to get cold,” he court was told he said.

The officers again agreed.

Jaghbir then slid on a pair of slippers near the front door and went with the officers to the police station wearing nothing but underpants and slippers.

Who said you can’t be civilised in trying circumstances?

CAR WARS

The saga surrounding Deputy Commissioner Jeff Loy’s stolen police car has turned into a Spanish Inquisition.

Greens MP David Shoebridge sent a letter to the NSW Police Force recently, raising concerns about how the issue of the stolen 4WD was handled.

It essentially drums down to where Mr Loy’s car was parked — on private property inside his property boundary or on public land.

Deputy Commissioner Jeff Loy. Picture: Renee Nowytarger

The drawn-out affair even triggered questions on notice in parliament and a costly freedom of information request. Now the matter has been referred to the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission.

In a letter to Mr Shoebridge last week, Professional Standards Command boss Assistant Commissioner Gelina Talbot said she sent the matter to LECC for “any attention and action deemed necessary”, given Mr Loy’s rank.

First revealed by The Snitch, Mr Loy’s unmarked police 4WD was nicked from his home in Sydney’s south in April.

Miraculously, days later the car was found, with interior features intact, parked in Panania. Mr Loy’s police shirts and other police documents were inside.

This column has confirmed that investigators were told the keys were left in the unlocked car before it was stolen. Technically, under NSW road rules, it is an offence to leave a car unlocked on a public road or with the keys in the ignition.

Police say the car was parked on Mr Loy’s private property while Mr Shoebridge said there were “very real doubts” the land the car was parked on was actually private.

SWORDS AND ELVIS

There was a lot to unpack when we covered the case of Benjamin Anthony Black.

He’s an ex-private school boy who armed himself with a samurai sword and pushed a man named Elvis into the Lane Cove River.

Bizarrely, police told Hornsby Local Court all this was sparked by his dislike of the Black Lives Matter protests.

Black appeared in court on Friday, where his lawyer Paul McGirr successfully argued against a prison sentence, with the magistrate accepting that the 41-year-old never actually intended to carry out several drunken threats and had received treatment.

He was charged with using carriage service to offence, common assault, being armed with intent to commit an indictable offence.

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