'There's no guns here': Kyle Sandilands defends John Ibrahim during police raid
Radio broadcaster Kyle Sandilands has turned up at the house of John Ibrahim to lend support to his close friend as police searched the Kings Cross identity’s luxury clifftop home.
Officers from the Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command arrived at the property about 10.30am on Tuesday when they served a firearms prohibition order.
Footage of the raid showed officers using a battering ram and then a crowbar to try and open a safe at Mr Ibrahim’s Dover Heights home, in the city’s eastern suburbs.
Their growing frustration was clear as the safe was smashed over and over again on the patio of Mr Ibrahim’s home.
While the property was searched over a period of five hours, radio personality and Mr Ibrahim’s friend Sandilands spoke to reporters outside.
“There’s no guns here, they’ve been here like 40 times,” Sandilands said.
“They’ve pulled out walls with suction caps. There’s no guns. It’s a waste of money.”
Mr Ibrahim’s lawyer Abbas Soukie told 7 News the search was an “abuse of power” and “entirely without merit”.
“Mr Ibrahim emphatically rejects any suggestion of any involvement in any illegal activity, and regards the continued and sustained harassment by the New South Wales Police as unwarranted,” the lawyer said in a statement.
A year ago police raided the property and arrested Mr Ibrahim’s son Daniel.
There were no arrests on Tuesday. Police found cash but no guns.
Later on Tuesday afternoon Sandilands and Mr Ibrahim were seen laughing together over coffee, with the police search order stuffed in the latter’s back pocket.
Mr Ibrahim has not been seen back at his Dover Heights property since.
On Tuesday night the house was being locked up by a friend who appears to live nearby.
