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Carl Williams could’ve committed two more Melbourne gangland murders, Roberta Williams says

ROBERTA Williams has revealed that she believes her gangland ex-husband Carl was behind six murders after uncovering letters from the grave.

Carl Williams: From Beyond the Grave

ROBERTA Williams has revealed that she believes her gangland ex-husband Carl was behind six murders after uncovering letters from the grave.

Williams made the claim after winning access to Carl’s jailhouse computer, which was filled with hundreds of the letters he penned to his daughter, girlfriend and criminal associates while behind bars.

She told Channel Seven’s Sunday Night that although Williams pleaded guilty to four murder, she believes there were more.

“Maybe two ... names have come up on his computer,” Ms Williams said.

The gangland boss pleaded guilty to the murders of Lewis Moran and his son Jason, Mark Mallia and Michael Marshall.

Ms Williams also revealed that she was angered more by her husband’s infidelity than his killings.

Carl Williams outside the Supreme Court.
Carl Williams outside the Supreme Court.

The gangland boss, who rose through the criminal ranks as a drug dealer, once shot at his then-pregnant wife after she caught him with a mistress.

“I didn’t really look at the criminal side of it,” she said.

“It shocks me some things I’ve read in the computer.

“It has shocked me that he can look me in the face and be one person and I’ve read stuff and he’s another.”

In the letters, Williams said he suspected Roberta turned a blind eye to the affairs because “at the time I had a truckload of money and she could have whatever she wanted”.

He also defended his life of violent crime, writing that he was stuck in a “kill or be killed situation”.

“I simply kill people who are planning to kill me,” he wrote.

“I’m the first to admit that I wish I could turn back time and what happened never did.

I did, what I suspect, any man would do.

Roberta Williams on <i>Sunday Night</i>. Picture: Channel Seven
Roberta Williams on Sunday Night. Picture: Channel Seven

“I’m no saint but the people I killed were far worse people than I will ever be.”

Williams’ daughter Dhakota spoke of her love for her father despite her acceptance he was a killer.

The 15 year old spoke to the Herald Sun before her grandfather’s death in May about her need for resolution in the circumstances surrounding her dad’s jailhouse death in 2010.

A series of letters seen by the Herald Sun outlines Williams’ devotion to his daughter and loneliness in jail.

After winning a legal fight to gain compensation from the Victorian State Government in 2015, believed to be more than $200,000, Dhakota has been pulled out of Penleigh and Essendon Grammar, which is now suing Roberta Williams for outstanding fees.

A law banning Roberta and Carl Williams’ father, George, was enacted to stop both from claiming compensation over his murder.

He was bashed to death with the shaft of an exercise bike in Victoria’s highest security Barwon Prison in Lara.

Dhakota spoke of her love for her father despite her acceptance he was a killer. Picture: Channel Seven
Dhakota spoke of her love for her father despite her acceptance he was a killer. Picture: Channel Seven

Dhakota, who is in high school, has had a difficult transition to the state schooling system, with bullying issues over her family emerging.

An online stalker has also besieged the family with revolting pictures of Williams’ brutalised body post the attack, which was leaked online.

Both Roberta Williams and her daughter fought a legal battle to have the State Coroner hold an inquest into Williams’ death.

It was refused in 2014.

The Coroner, Ian Gray, explained that because multiple investigations were conducted into Williams’ murder, it would be a duplication of what had been established.

But Victoria Police has not laid charges against those who it suspects orchestrated the murder from outside prison.

In the paid-for interview by Sunday Night, former Purana taskforce boss Jim O’Brien said despite the love Williams had for his family, he was still a “monster”.

“I don’t dispute the fact that he probably loved his kids,” he said.

“That doesn’t excuse him from being a monster to the rest of society.”

anthony.dowsley@news.com.au

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