The Snitch: John Ibrahim with Mim Salvato at King Kyle’s baby gender reveal

It was expected John Ibrahim would be at his best mate Kyle Sandilands’ baby gender reveal party but the man with him brought up some memories from police raids on Ibrahim’s home in 2017, The Snitch reveals.

When The Snitch’s old mate John Ibrahim was snapped arriving at radio king Kyle Sandilands’ baby gender reveal party on Friday, the media missed one detail.

The picture was published everywhere, but the captions only mentioned Ibrahim and his glamorous partner Sarah Budge. Who was the guy in the aviators with blindingly white teeth dutifully holding an umbrella to protect Ibrahim from the rain?

It was none other than Mim Salvato.

Close watchers will know that Salvato has featured prominently in the recent chapters of Ibrahim’s life.

Mim Salvato (far right) attends Kyle Sandilands’ baby gender reveal party with Sarah Budge and John Ibrahim. Picture: Matrix Media

Salvato was living in Ibrahim’s Dover Heights mansion when police raided it in 2017. He cheekily told police they couldn’t possibly conclude what kind of white powder was in a resealable bag found on a bookshelf without tasting it. He then dobbed in their other housemate as the owner.

No one was charged over it and there is no suggestion anyone did anything illegal.

Later in the search, he gave police a detailed explanation on how fertility drugs worked after the investigators found them in the fridge.

Mim Salvato talking to police officers during the raids of John Ibrahim’s house in 2017.

Headache for prosecutor

Did you hear that sound?

It was the audible groan of someone whose job just got a little harder.

And it’s coming from the Liverpool St headquarters of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

In particular, it came from the poor prosecutor working on one of the thousands of criminal cases that are set to be heard by the state’s court system.

Now before we continue, The Snitch has to confess that we have no direct evidence that this is what occurred, only that we can safely assume something like this happened because we know how these things work in the prosecutors’ office.

The poor prosecutor’s ability to put a group of alleged bad guys in jail has now been potentially impacted because a key witness in their case has just been charged with a set of criminal offences dealing with an unrelated matter.

The only other housekeeping we have to unpack is that The Sunday Telegraph’s lawyers, who do their best to keep The Snitch out of trouble, have said the person and the cases in question can’t legally be identified.

OK, down to business.

The witness is set to point the finger at some people whom they say were involved in some seriously illegal behaviour. Critical to the prosecution case is that the witness is the only person who can – or is willing – to give this evidence.

The case could fail if the jury does not believe their story. In short, they need to be received by the jury as a credible witness.

The person already had a few spiders in the closet and is set to face a few tough questions about what they like to do in their private life.

But now they are facing an unrelated set of criminal charges, the question of their credibility now has the potential to blow up further
if they get found guilty.

Buckle up.

Tom calls time

This Friday, we say goodbye to the state’s chief justice of the Supreme Court, Tom Bathurst.

He is retiring after almost 11 years in the chair and will be replaced by incoming chief justice Andrew Bell.

Chief justice Tom Bathurst is retiring.

Let’s Party

It’s the legal industry Christmas party where lawyers, judges and media types punch the time clock and cease hostilities (well, except for that one incident a few years back) to have a drink and a laugh.

But thanks to Covid, the Sir Owen Dixon Chambers’ Christmas party hasn’t gone ahead in recent years.

However, with the recent lifting of Covid restrictions, the party is now being revived to go ahead in March.

“We’re very much looking forward to it and after the last few years we’ve had I think we all need it,” barrister Winston Terracini SC said.

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