Carl Williams

Baby-faced Carl Williams was a convicted murderer and drug trafficker from Victoria and was the central figure in the Melbourne gangland killings. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 35 years for ordering the murders of three people and conspiracy to murder a fourth (which was unsuccessful). On the 19th April 2010 Williams was murdered while he sat quietly reading the newspaper in the maximum-security unit of Barwin prison in Victoria.

The hit television drama 'Underbelly' was based on events surrounding the Melbourne gangland wars from 1995 to 2004 and Gyton Grantley played the part of Williams in the 2008 series.

The autopsy report shows that he died almost instantly from extreme violence. The official cause of death is "head injury caused by blunt force trauma". He was struck once to the right side of the head from behind and fell to the ground and was struck again up to seven times on the left side of the head. He was then dragged face down by his attacker to his cell where he remained for 30 minutes before being found by prison guards. The weapon used was from an exercise bike seat later found in the laundry.

The entire attack was captured on cctv cameras and should have been seen immediately on the guards' screens. Prisoners in maximum security are supposed to be monitored 24/7 but the closest prison officer was in a room only 10 metres away on the telephone while it was going on -how convenient. It was not until another prisoner "Little Tommy" Ivanovic told the guard to check on Williams 25 minutes later that the murder was discovered.

Ever since the Rum Corp, crooked cops have thrived all over our country but thankfully, in recent times, undercover police work has managed to put many so-called respected pillars of the community in gaol. Carl Williams was killed on the same day that the Melbourne Herald Sun outed him as a possible police informer. Incredibly, Premier John Brumby didn't want an inquiry. He dismissed a royal commission as a waste of time and money and said that 'although Williams murder was "obviously unacceptable" the victim was a serial killer. "If I had the choice of putting tens of millions of dollars into an anti-corruption body, or putting it into hospitals, or bushfires, or more police, I'd choose the latter".

So the Rum Corp tradition of crooked cops continues in Victoria, unchallenged.