Sunday 7 June 2015

Death of Carl Williams

Carl Williams was a convict who was serving life for his role in a drug and murder ring. Another prisoner, Matthew Charles Johnson has the stem of an exercise bike that he used to beat Williams to death. The above photo is a still from CCTV footage of the murder.
New details surrounding the murder of drug kingpin Carl Williams have emerged, claiming he was bashed to death in jail over fears he was being 'downloaded' by police. Williams, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for playing his part in the murder of four people, was murdered at Barwon prison in April 2010.

Reports have surfaced that Williams was being used by police as a source of information on unsolved gangland crimes in Victoria and crooks were becoming increasingly worried about what he would reveal.

Matthew Johnson in 2010. Johnson was sentenced to a minimum of 32 years in prison for the gruesome murder.
Williams, known as the baby-faced killer, was a key figure in Melbourne's brutal underworld war of the 1990s and immortalised in the popular TV series 'Underbelly'. He was a central figure in Melbourne's violent criminal war which began in the late 1990s and eventually claimed more than 25 lives, with a sentencing judge describing him as a 'puppet master' who decided who lived and who died.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2936151/Underbelly-boss-Carl-Williams-bashed-death-crooks-feared-going-reveal-killed-Melbourne-gangland-wars.html

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