Dhakota Williams: Gangland daughter speaks about bizarre childhood
THE daughter of slain gangland figure Carl Williams hatched a secret plan to break “daddy” out of prison.
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THE daughter of slain gangland figure Carl Williams hatched a secret plan to break “daddy” out of prison.
Dhakota Williams, 17, has revealed that as a primary school-age child, she begged mum Roberta Williams to help her father come home.
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“I remember one time I was planning it, I was like, let’s get a helicopter and we’ll put you on the roof, and you can come with us,” Dhakota told 60 Minutes.
The teenager has given fresh details about her bizarre childhood and described her pain at losing her father at age nine.
Carl was beaten to death at Barwon Prison in 2010 while serving a life sentence for murder.
“(Childhood) was like a hurricane on steroids,” Dhakota said.
The daughter of the most feared man in Melbourne was born into a life of luxury — lavish parties at Crown Casino, dresses worth $4000 and a baptism that netted $70,000 in cash gifts alone.
But the excess masked a lonely truth — most of Dhakota’s memories of her father take place in prison visiting rooms.
“I would visit my dad (in jail) and that was just like a normal thing, I just thought for me that’s just normal,” she said.
“(He said) make sure I’m going to school, brush my teeth, be nice to my mum.”
Despite facing up to some of Carl’s monstrous crimes, Dhakota remains loyal.
“I try to just put that all aside just to think of him as my dad,” she said.
“He was a good person to me. I don’t really think about the rest of it.”
And she says she’s not ashamed of the family name.
“I’m a reflection of my parents … they are good people, he was a good person,” she said.
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