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    Australia's baby-faced killer Carl Williams dies in jail

    The notorious crime boss spread terror throughout Melbourne and inspired a cult TV series likened to The Sopranos



    Even when he was in the dock accused of four gangland murders, Carl Williams did not look the part. With his plump face, ruffled hair and open smile, he seemed more like a suburban family man than a ruthless crime boss who had spread terror through an Australian city.

    Over 10 bloody years, the baby-faced killer had risen from a bit player on the fringes of Melbourne's drug scene to become the kingpin of a multimillion dollar crime empire, one of the most powerful figures in Australia's underworld.

    At the height of his power, Williams revelled in his notoriety as a celebrity criminal, courting media attention and inspiring a cult television series likened to an antipodean Sopranos. But even before his downfall, he feared the violence he had unleashed would catch up with him: it was rumoured that he never ate in the same restaurant twice for fear of assassination.

    When he was arrested in 2004 and sentenced to 35 years in prison, it seemed he had at least escaped with his life. Today, his life was ended as brutally as it been lived, when he was clubbed to death with part of an exercise bicycle in the exercise yard of a high-security prison.

    Williams, dubbed the "smiling assassin", was attacked from behind by two inmates as he sat at a table in the yard. The attack was captured on CCTV but, by the time paramedics arrived, Williams was in cardiac arrest. He died at the scene.

    While Williams' family was mourning his death, his many enemies were said to be jubilant.

    A one-time labourer and high school dropout, Williams, 39, in the late 1990s snatched control of Australia's illegal drugs trade from the Moran family who had dominated the Melbourne underworld for three generations.

    Williams began his criminal career as a footsoldier in the Moran organisation. But a feud erupted with the Morans when they discovered he had been using their amphetamine labs to make his own batches and undercutting their prices. For his treachery, they ambushed him in a park and shot him in the stomach.

    While Williams told police he could not identify his attacker, the incident triggered a series of vicious and very public tit-for-tat murders. About 35 people died in the gangland war, including Jason Moran, who was shot in front of some 200 witnesses after watching his children playing at a Saturday morning football match.

    Amid the spiralling violence, Williams and his then wife Roberta seemed to revel in his role as Australia's most notorious crime figure. The vendetta inspired a hit television series, Underbelly, the third series of which is currently being screened on Australian television. Andrew Rule, who co-authored the Underbelly books on which the TV series was based, said Williams' killing was "another episode in a very violent life".

    Williams was arrested in 2004, and in 2007 admitted ordering and paying for the murder of Jason Moran, his father Lewis and his brother Mark. He also admitted conspiring to murder Mark Mallia, a drug dealer whose body was found in a burning wheelie bin in 2003. He was sentenced to 35 years.

    During a hearing at the Victoria supreme court, Williams sat behind bullet-proof glass flanked by seven security guards, laughed and showed no remorse.

    Passing sentence, Judge Betty King told him: "You are a killer and a cowardly one who employed others to do the actual killing, whilst you hid behind carefully constructed alibis.''

    She described Williams as a "puppet master" who decided whether his victims lived or died. At Barwon prison, Williams spent 18 hours a day locked in his 4m by 3m cell, watching television and playing Celine Dion and Shania Twain CDs. Meanwhile, his former wife Roberta gave a string of press interviews and posed in a bikini for a men's magazine.

    He was due to give evidence in several forthcoming trials, and his murder came hours after it was reported that police had paid $A8,000 (£4,800) for Williams' nine-year-old daughter to attend an exclusive private school.

    A letter written by the Victorian government's solicitor's office also showed that police offered to pay a $A750,000 debt that Williams' father George owed the tax office, an offer withdrawn on legal advice.

    Williams' lawyer, Rob Stary, who spoke to his client shortly before his death, said Williams was upset by the implication that he had struck a secret deal with the police.

    Stary told ABC News his client was held in solitary confinement at the prison and the only time he came into contact with other prisoners was when he exercised. "He was in the state's most secure prison environment; solitary confinement, supervised for every moment of every minute of every day, and whatever happened one would expect would have been supervised," he said.

    The police, the state coroner and the prison authorities have each begun inquiries into Williams' death. Last night, police were questioning two prisoners in the maximum security unit.


    Price of notoriety: anger at screen portrayal

    The life and violent times of Carl Williams inspired a hit television series, Underbelly, which was described as Australia's version of The Sopranos.

    The show, which was based on gang wars in Melbourne after a feud erupted between Williams and drug lords the Moran family, remains banned in the state of Victoria. There, judges have ruled that it could prejudice potential jurors in a murder trial.

    Williams, known to the police as Fat Boy, was an avid fan of the series, but was outraged at his portrayal as a bumbling, overweight imbecile.

    "I don't mind them telling the truth about me, but telling lies and painting me out like some dickhead who is brain-dead, well that's just bullshit," he wrote in a letter to his mother.

    "They're having me associating with people I've never met ... committing crimes that I've never even been suspected of – what a load of crap."
    Serves him right!

    When you play Celine Dion and Shania Twain for 18 hours a day....

  • #2
    Well thats it then , the last surviving Celine fan is a staunch member of this board , and now infamous as the last of a race of stone deaf hearing impaired warriors ,also keep your head down as the last remaining one will be sought after and a highly prized coup , no names no pack drill , but Col , dont sell your C/D collection , ya might get something for it in 40 years on ebay
    Last edited by tankie; 20 Apr 10,, 17:22.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by tankie View Post
      Well thats it then , the last surviving Celine fan is a staunch member of this board , and now infamous as the last of a race of stone deaf hearing impaired warriors ,also keep your head down as the last remaining one will be sought after and a highly prized coup , no names no pack drill , but Col , dont sell your C/D collection , ya might get something for it in 40 years on ebay
      :))
      Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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      • #4
        Maybe you should get it appraised on Antique Roadshow. Just so you know how much to ask for it
        Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

        Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by bigross86 View Post
          Maybe you should get it appraised on Antique Roadshow. Just so you know how much to ask for it
          I heard that the Col was a good friend of Arthur Negus , so maybe they can conjure up a ficticious insurance evaluation ,




          then yella belly can go n steal them


          as a BIG favor of course :))
          Last edited by tankie; 21 Apr 10,, 19:02.

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          • #6
            ^ So where were you when we needed you in the foodfight when gross was trolling fora sandwich?

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            • #7
              Dare I mention sheep yet again?
              Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

              Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.

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              • #8
                no..that would be baaaaaaaaaaad.

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                • #9
                  Thank you for dragging this down to a level I never would have been able to take it to. Well done!
                  Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

                  Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.

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                  • #10
                    No problem.

                    I'm learning new things from tankie ever day.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by indus creed View Post
                      Serves him right!

                      When you play Celine Dion and Shania Twain for 18 hours a day....
                      Well he was Victorian.

                      Just like BigFella.
                      Ego Numquam

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by YellowFever View Post
                        No problem.

                        I'm learning new things from tankie ever day.
                        Yea and its free as well

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