Carl Williams, aged 30 was a convicted murderer and drug trafficker from Victoria. He was the central figure in the Melbourne gangland killings and was portrayed by Gyton Grantley in the TV series Underbelly. 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 a Sunday afternoon, reading the paper in the maximum security unit of Barwon Prison he was beaten to death by another inmate.
Now an investigation into his death has revealed that the prison guards who should have been watching television monitors, were playing indoor cricket.
A fellow prisoner has been charged with his murder. The attack was recorded on the cctv cameras but there were no guards to see it. He was then dragged to his cell where he was not noticed for 30 minutes. The Department of Justice yesterday declined to comment.
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 "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."
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