Steve Williams’ disappearance: Moneylender’s $1.9m home as more Finks links emerge

The moneylender believed to have arranged Steve Williams’ final meeting with Finks bikies before he disappeared now lives in a $1.9m home and is suspected of hiring a Finks-linked debt collector.

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A moneylender who is suspected of arranging Steve Williams’ final meeting with Finks bikies before his 2005 disappearance lives in a $1.9m home, and may have allegedly hired a Finks-linked debt collector soon after Williams disappeared.

It can also be revealed the man was previously involved in a civil dispute and operates in an industry experts say is central to the underworld bikie economy.

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The revelation comes amid a new spotlight on the 2005 disappearance of Williams, a former SA Gypsy Joker boss, after The Advertiser revealed the money lender is suspected of arranging a debt collection meeting at a Gillman trucking yard to collect debts from two Finks members.

That meeting was the last place Williams was seen.

SA Gypsy Joker biker Steve Williams in BP's Hotel in Adelaide months before his disappearance in 2005.

The Advertiser’s Secrets of the Missing Joker video series uncovered how the man, a moneylender, had allegedly employed Williams, the outgoing president of the SA Gypsy Jokers, as a debt collector.

However, an Adelaide court later heard that the moneylender was alleged to be a Finks associate member himself.

A source close to the gang said that shortly after Williams’ disappearance, believed to have occurred as a result of a meeting he was sent to with Finks at the Gillman truck yard, the moneylender hired a new debt collector who was a member of the Finks and known by the nickname “Mad”.

The Gepps Cross Hotel carpark, where Steve Williams disappeared from.

The Advertiser also understands that SA Police were not tipped off about the Gillman truck yard meeting until several months after Williams’ disappearance.

Blayze Williams confirmed that her father was working for the moneylender, who met him at the Gepps Cross Hotel on the day of his disappearance.

But she does not hold him responsible for the death.

“We spent a lot of time with him when I was young,” she said.

Blayze Williams, whose Gypsy Joker bikie father Steve Williams disappeared, presumed murdered, in 2005. Picture: Brenton Edwards

“For years I held anger towards him, thinking he had something to do with it because he was the last to see him. But I let go of that animosity.

“If he ever sees this, I want him to know I don’t hold anger. I know I’ve seen things wrong for a while – it’s hard not to blame something when you’ve got nothing to blame.”

Veteran Adelaide criminologist Allan Perry said that bikies had long been associated with both moneylending.

“It remains very much an area where bikies can make a lot of money when it comes to enforcing debts,” he said.

The moneylender is not known to have been charged with any criminal offences, but was found to have been involved in a civil dispute previously.