Workman was shot
seven times in the chest and once in the back.
The party was to celebrate the
release of Mark Aisbett, who had been charged with armed robbery.
The guest list almost was a who's
who of Melbourne's underworld and included Gangitano
and Jason Moran.
Workman and the other two
criminal heavyweights had been drinking at the Australia Hotel in Richmond
before the party.
About 4am an argument broke out
between Gangitano and another guest, Martin Paul.
As Workman walked out the front
door he was shot eight times. A guest drove him to the Alfred Hospital, where he
died a short time later.
Two witnesses later told police
they had seen Gangitano run from the porch holding a gun as Workman lay on the ground.
Another woman said she had seen Gangitano
and Paul standing at Workman's feet before someone had yelled, "Get him out
of here". She said Paul had led Gangitano
away.
The two witnesses were placed in
the witness protection program, but later retracted their statements.
When Gangitano
was murdered in January 1998, there was speculation it may have been a payback
for the murder of Workman.
Gangitano and Jason, along with
Mark John
McNamara - an aspiring trotting driver whose career was ended when he fell from
a sulky at Moonee Valley - were charged over a brawl on December 19,
1995, at the Sports Bar nightclub.
It was alleged that Gangitano
beat patrons with a pool cue until it broke while his henchmen bashed others.
It is believed the gang were at the
club to collect unpaid protection money.
Gangitano unleashed
himself, more than likely after management refused him money to keep
peace and harmony inside the venue.
A South African
tourist was repeatedly bashed with a pool cue until it broke over the man's
head.
He was then stabbed
with the broken pieces and hit with an ashtray.
Another woman had
her jaw broken.
Ten people had to be
hospitalised.
Gangitano, who
police say was wielding a pool cue and chasing another victim up the road when
apprehended, was charged with affray and granted bail.
In later evidence,
police said that a phone tap on Jason Moran's home recorded him telling a friend
on the morning after the brawl that he had "basically started it all and
that he was in the process of washing blood from his clothes."
A court hearing was
later told that Moran and McNamara were with Gangitano
during the surprise attack on Sports Bar patrons.
Gangitano,
described as ''the man in the grey suit'', beat one customer until his pool cue
snapped, then asked: ''Who's gonna be next?''
Police had to use force in arresting
Jason and he suffered a fractured skull.
He was rushed to the Royal Melbourne
Hospital and admitted.
After healing, he was granted bail.
On January 22, 1996, Jason again
terrorised patrons of a nightclub.
This time it was Chasers in Chapel
Street, South Yarra.
Jason and his de-facto Trisha Kane,
with friends, arrived at the nightclub in the early hours of the morning.
After a dispute over a chair at a
bar, Trisha began arguing with a woman referred to in court documents as Ms
Clements.
Jason told Trisha to "cut it
out" but after she called Ms Clements a "stupid bitch", the woman
threw a drink in Trisha's face.
Jason then punched Clements in the
mouth.
She stumbled backwards and was
punched to the floor where she was further punched and kicked.
Charged with recklessly causing
serious injury, Jason was again granted bail, this time with a $250,000 surety
and an 8pm to 8am home curfew.
It has been
speculated that Jason and
Alphonse Gangitano had a falling out.
Moran received a
flogging and ended up in a critical condition in hospital.
While it has never been proved who
administered the beating, the suggestion is that Gangitano was the man
responsible.
Jason recovered but was told that he
would have to give up drinking due to the long-lasting effects of two severe
beatings.
This apparently
occurred shortly before Gangitano's murder.
On January 16,
1998, 40 year-old Gangitano was found dead in the laundry of his Glen Orchard Close,
Templestowe house by his wife.
He had been shot
several times to the head.
The Age reported
nine months after the slaying that Gangitano had been surprised and had run from
the kitchen.
Wounded and fleeing
his assassin, Gangitano was then shot in the head as
he lay on the laundry
floor.
On the night of his
murder the stand over man was visited by a friend, Graham
Kinniburgh.
Apparently
Kinniburgh left the house shortly after 11pm to buy cigarettes from a local store.
Returning about 30
minutes later, he found Gangitano's de-facto wife with the body of her husband,
which she had just discovered.
Jason
was later
interviewed about the murder, his legal representation coming from disgraced
criminal lawyer, Andrew
Fraser.
The advice provided by Fraser as
usual to 'keep your mouth shut' and that he did.
Fraser was later jailed for dealing cocaine at the time of
Gangitano's
shooting.
At the January 2002
inquest into Gangitano's
death it was revealed that Jason Moran had allegedly been observed at the
Templestowe home on the night of the shooting.
Jason's mother, Judy Moran later
denied her son was involved in any way with Gangitano's murder.
"Jason worshipped Al and Al was like
my brother," she told the Sunday Herald Sun.
"None of the underworld pointed the
finger (at Jason). A witness described a tattooed bald man entering Al's house
and Jason didn't have a birthmark, let alone a tattoo."
She said she was summoned to a
meeting in Sydney and told the identity of Gangitano's killer.
"He is a small framed man with evil
eyes," she said.
On May 1, 1999, Moran was
sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment, with nine months suspended for three
years, over the assault at Chasers.
In sentencing, Judge Mervyn Kimm
described the incident as "a violent and cowardly attack upon a defenceless
young woman".
Carl Williams, a
man who was part of a father son amphetamine operation, was shot in the stomach at
a meeting with the Moran brothers at the tiny
Barrington Crescent park in the outer-western suburb of Gladstone Park
on October 13, 1999.
Jason Moran
and his
half-brother Mark had arranged to meet amphetamine
manufacturer Williams to discuss their mutual
business interests.
The Williams and
Moran
families had trafficked drugs for years and while they often did
deals when it suited, they
were also competitors for a slice of the
lucrative illegal pill market.
But the two groups were
never friends and the niggles remained. The Morans, always quick to take offence, began to
stew. At first it was a simple domestic matter: Carl
Williams' wife Roberta had previously been married to
Dean Stephens, a friend of the Morans.
The next was competition.
Williams was undercutting his rivals, selling his pills
for $8 compared with the Morans' $15.
The third was business.
Williams had supplied the Morans with a load of pills.
But he had not used enough binding material and they
were crumbling before they could be sold.
The fourth niggle was
greed. The Morans claimed ownership of a pill press and
said
Williams owed them $400,000. Carl disagreed.
The meeting provided the Moran brothers with the perfect
opportunity to remind
Williams where he stood.
Soon after they
arrived Jason Moran pulled a gun, a .22 Derringer. A
woman nearby heard a man cry out, "No Jason",
and then a single shot.
Mark Moran urged his half-brother
to finish the job but Jason replied that they needed the
big man alive if they were ever to get their money.
Williams refused to
co-operate with police after he was ambushed. When
detectives interviewed him in hospital,
Williams said he
had felt a pain in his stomach as he was walking, and
only then realised he had been shot.
His wife, Roberta, gave
more away in a later conversation with The Age,
but denied the shooting was drug related. "Mark was
yelling 'Shoot him in the head', and Jason then shot him
in the stomach," she said.
"I am told that the police documentation put
together in that brief includes a belief that the shooting was at the behest of
the former husband," her barrister, Con Heliotis, QC, made an emotional
plea for a suspended sentence later told the Supreme Court.
Dean Stephens, Roberta Williams' ex-husband,
was a close friend of the Moran family.
If the Morans thought
that shooting
Williams would frighten him, they were
horribly wrong. The wound soon healed and the drug
dealer began planning his revenge, setting off a very
public underworld war.
Years later, Bulletin journalist Adam Shand
received a call from an old school mate of Carl Williams'.
He was trying to sell a picture of Carl and Dad George, Jason
Moran and others in Fulham Prison "in happier days" before the
1999 feud erupted.
Shand wrote that those at The Bulletin were mildly interested but as usual
impecunious and not wishing to boost a trade in gangster memorabilia.
"Anyway, the bloke then went on to tell me his story for free and it was
worth a lot more than the picture.
"It seems this bloke, let's call him Paco (Spanish for peace), had grown
up with Williams in Broadmeadows and had attended the same high school.
"Paco and "Skinny" Williams had been very close.
"It was eerie speaking to Paco because he sounded just like Carl, it was
like he was channelling him.
"In the mid-1990s, Paco served 15 months in a Canadian jail after being
caught with 6 kilos of coke.
"But the Williams family did not forget Paco, sending him cards and
magazines and keeping his spirits up.
"But when he got home, Paco fell in love with one of the Moran women and
the trouble began.
"We know that in October 1999, Jason shot Carl in Gladstone Park.
"What we didn't know was that, a few weeks later, someone shot Paco in
the shoulder as he got into his car to go for a meeting.
"A second shot shattered the side window, but Paco got away with (as
they say in the movies) a flesh wound.
"He was interviewed in hospital by police and, like Carl, never seemed
to have any idea who had shot him or why.
"But he suspected Carl and began to place his own surveillance on the
Williams team.
"The Williams believed that Paco had helped set Carl up for his
shooting.
"Soon after the first attempt, Paco narrowly escaped being shot by an
assassin hiding up a tree.
"This game of battleships went on for a while with neither side scoring
any direct hits.
"Eventually, Paco decamped the state to safety.
"But then Paco, missing Carl and their shared love of fast food and
cocaine, got to thinking about the night he was shot in 1999.
"He remembered a telephone call from Jason Moran that afternoon. Jason
had reminded Paco that he should not miss the appointment and that he should not
be late.
"He told Jason he would be there as he had nothing else on that day, so
in theory Jason knew when Paco would be getting in his car.
"Setting up mates was a favourite trick of the Morans. Like the time
Mark had set up another mate, let's call him Stevo, with a large quantity of
speed.
"Stevo took the speed only to be raided by the Drug Squad the following
morning.
"They turned Stevo's house over looking for the speed but failed to
locate it.
"But they did find some hashish and busted Stevo. When asked how did the
cops learn Stevo had the gear, one walloper replied: "Remember the last
person you spoke to last night?."
"And that was Mark Moran.
"Anyway Paco starts putting this together in his head and concludes he's
been used.
"Maybe, this was one time Carl was innocent of trying to murder someone.
"It dawned on Paco that perhaps Jason had been trying to dupe him into
killing Carl.
"And while others, like Andrew Veniamin,
were on a golden promise to kill Carl, Paco would be paid in lead.
"The Morans learnt their skills from their relatives the Kanes
who ruled Melbourne in the 1970s and 80s.
"Back then, the best way to pay off a successful contract killer was to
knock him and that's how Paco would have finished up had he killed Carl, he
believes.
In January 2000,
Mark John McNamara, 35 of Ascot Vale, pleaded guilty to one count of affray over
the King St brawl.
He was sentenced to
18 months' jail, with nine months suspended for three years.
Then, on February 15,
2000, the County Court had heard character evidence from North Melbourne
Football Club captain, Wayne
Carey in a bid to reduce his infamous mate, Jason Moran's, possible sentence
for his part in the Sports Bar brawl.
Carey insisted his
friend had matured ''a hell of a lot'' during the past few years
and had waved goodbye to his drinking days.
''I know too well what the effects
of alcohol can do,''
Carey told the court.
During the hearing,
Mark Moran was ejected from the County Court after giving a false identity on
entry.
Carey told a County Court judge he had never met the infamous Alphonse
Gangitano
and did not ''have a clue'' what happened at the Sports Bar on December 19,
1995.
Moran had pleaded not guilty to his part in the wild brawl.
Under
cross-examination from prosecutor Peter Robinson,
Carey said he had never spoken to Moran about the Sports Bar.
He said he knew Moran had
been in jail, but did not know what the trouble had been.
''Have you ever spoken to him about cannabis or amphetamines?'' Mr Robinson
asked.
''Never in my life,''
Carey said.
''Does he use strong language,
fuck or cunt? Mr Robinson asked, to which
Carey said: ''Not in my presence.''
Carey said he met Moran through a mutual friend six or seven years
before and lived about
400m from his house.
They had been to one another's homes and always had a chat if they ran into each
other in the street or supermarket.
The football star
said Moran had matured in the past four or five years and appeared to have given
up drinking.
Leaning forward and
gripping the side of the witness box,
Carey said no one made him attend court to give evidence.
''I was asked
whether I was certain I wanted to do this and I said I was certain I wanted to
do this, because that's what I believe in,'' he said.
''Those are the changes that I have seen . . . I'm up here telling the truth of
what I've seen.''
Carey admitted he did not socialise with Moran regularly.
On March 6, 2000,
Judge James Duggan said Jason Moran played a key role in supporting Gangitano
who started the fight that left 13 people injured.
The judge said that
although Gangitano's
reasons would never be known, he probably would not have instigated the fight
without the support of Moran and his roommate, Mark John MacNamara.
The judge said Mr
Campbell Lawler suffered the worst injuries, including loss of vision in one
eye, after he was repeatedly struck with a pool cue and then kicked by Gangitano
and Moran.
A woman also suffered a broken jaw.
"I am satisfied
that it can only be described as an extreme example of this offence (affray). It
came completely out of the blue so far as the patrons were concerned,"
Judge Duggan said.
Moran was convicted after pleading not guilty to one charge of affray.
He
was sentenced
to serve a minimum non-parole period of 20 months.
The court was told
there were several possible reasons for Gangitano's
outburst of violence.
The judge said there was not enough evidence to show the
brawl was because the bar owner owed Gangitano
money.
He said it could have followed a row with a patron or may have been
racially based.
"The irony of
suffering a racially motivated attack in Melbourne was not lost on Mr Lawler who
remarked that, as a coloured man, he had lived through the apartheid era in South
Africa without being involved in any such episode," Judge Duggan said.
He noted Moran
suffered several skull fractures during his arrest.
The judge said the handling
by police of Moran appeared to be remarkably heavy handed and included the
waterside worker being struck on the head with a gun.
Jason - with shaved head sporting a
jagged scar - remained fearless and cocky during his time in prison, although he
turned on the charm for the female warders.
"What he did behind closed
doors, I don't know," one prison insider said, "but he did work out a
lot of problems I had with other prisoners. He never tried to bribe me.
On Thursday June
15, 2000, Mark Moran was shot dead outside his house.
Mark was murdered
outside his luxury home in Combermere St, Aberfeldie, near Essendon, at 8.30pm,
seconds after pulling up in his white Commodore ute.
In the days after
shooting it became apparent that the Moran's believed that the father son team
who they were in dispute with were responsible for killing Mark.
There were
reports of shots being fired around the North Fitzroy home of the major suspects
shortly after his death.
Shots were heard in
Rae Street Brunswick on the night of June 20, 2000 and a car was damaged by gun
fire in Brunswick Street near Rae St on the night of Marks funeral.
Carl Williams was the gunman and his
getaway driver would later be implicated in another
three murders.
Police later established
that Williams had only been waiting 10 minutes when
Moran returned. It smelled of an ambush.
On June 22, 2000,
about 500 mourners dressed in black coats and dark sunglasses gathered to
farewell Mark Moran.
Jason, granted day
leave from prison to be at the funeral at St Therese's Church in Essendon, sat
under guard with his head in his hands during the service.
He had hinted at
revenge.
"Words could
never, ever express the way I am feeling. This is only the beginning. It will
never be the end,'' ``REMEMBER, I WILL NEVER FORGET.''
Jason wrote in a
Herald Sun death notice.
Other death notices
included many from Australian Rules footballers including a former Carlton
captain who remembered them running a premiership lap in the 1980's.
Rumours abounded
that Mark may have been killed in revenge for the murder of Alphonse
Gangitano.
Many bikies attended
the funeral wearing full colours whilst in church.
Jason was embraced
by a long-haired Hells Angel.
On Friday
December 29, 2000, the
Age reported that an attempt by two of Victoria's most notorious criminals to
play Santa for their mates in Fulham prison has been foiled by Scrooge-like jail
authorities.
Or, at least, partly foiled.
Prison sources said prisoners Jason
Moran and John
Higgs, had tried to "shout" the party for their unit by having
thousands of dollars sent into the jail.
The prisoners still managed to
organise a lavish Christmas blow-out last week for fellow inmates and their
children and families at the jail, near Sale, with gifts, a Santa and $2500 of
seafood buffet, roasts and salads.
But Corrections Commissioner Penny
Armytage declared the party excessive and told the private prison's management,
Australasian Correctional Management, that future celebrations must be
significantly scaled back.
Authorities intercepted the money,
returned it, and refused the pair permission to host the party.
But organisation
was so far advanced that they allowed the event to proceed, on condition it was
paid for by each prisoner and catered by the jail's food services manager.
Higgs,
the self-proclaimed biggest amphetamine producer in Victoria, was doing six
years for his part in a massive drug ring broken after an eight-year police
investigation.
"They were big-noting,"
said a prison source.
"But that sort of largesse doesn't come without the
expectation of some sort of, let's say, mutual obligation from the other
prisoners in the future."
Prisoners in Victorian jails are
able to seek permission to host Christmas parties for their children.
Ms
Armytage confirmed that the party had been held on the Wednesday
before Christmas.
One of two parties organised by
inmates at the jail, it was attended by about 30 prisoners, more than 100
children, and prisoners' partners and family members.
Ms Armytage said prison authorities
became aware of Moran's and
Higgs' generosity and the scale of the event after
two $1000 money orders were sent to one of the prisoner's trust account.
But
food orders had already been placed.
"Prison management confirmed
they became aware of the scale of the order after it had been placed and
management exercised its discretion that it would not be paid for by any
individual prisoners, which is what had originally been proposed."
"It would only
go ahead if all the prisoners contributed and they all paid their share,"
she said.
On January 17,
2001, Darren
William Harland faced the Melbourne Magistrates' Court after he was caught
with a loaded gun while visiting Jason Moran at Fulham prison, in eastern
Victoria, the previous year.
A loaded
semi-automatic Phoenix .22 pistol was found in a bag in his car.
When asked if
it was his gun he replied: “ It wasn’t in there when we pulled up”.
A reference from
champion Melbourne footballer David
Schwarz helped him to escape jail.
Harland,
who was a water-side
worker, and an unidentified friend fled when the guards called police.
The pair were
arrested in Melbourne shortly after.
Harland,
a former VFA player for Werribee and Port
Melbourne and son of 80's Port legend 'Buster' Harland, pleaded guilty to
charges including owning an unlicensed handgun.
Schwarz's
glowing words helped convince magistrate Jenny Bowles to impose a $3500 fine and
a six-month suspended jail sentence for Harland
It was the second
time Harland has avoided jail.
Two years before he received a suspended sentence for his role
in a hotel brawl.
This Sporting
Life
By Derryn Hinch
Question time: What
is it between Australian sports stars and gangsters? Why do their worlds get so
entwined so often? And I’m not just talking about illegal bookies and fixed
cricket matches.
If some of the
things our so-called sporting heroes get away with here were even attempted in
the United States they would be banned for life.
“Broadway Joe”
Namath, the flamboyant quarterback for the Superbowl- winning New York Jets, was
forced by football authorities to close down his bar in Manhattan because
several unsavoury characters associated with The Mob were said to have been seen
drinking there.
Namath’s crime?
Somebody might inadvertently let slip that a certain player was injured and
would not be playing on a certain night. That would give the crims an edge in
the betting.
And Pete Rose,
former champion player and coach of the Chicago White Sox was actually jailed.
His crime? Betting on baseball. Of course, the White Sox don’t have the best
record in sport. They threw the World Series prompting the plaintive cry from a
kid to “ Shoeless” Joe Jackson: “ Say it aint so, Joe”.
But here in Australia it seems
anything goes.
The latest mix
between the murky world of crims and sport involves Melbourne’s star player David
Schwarz.
The Demons’ Vice
Captain provided a character reference for a man who was caught with a loaded
gun in his car in a jail car park while visiting one of Melbourne’s best-known
thugs.
And the reference
helped Darren
William Harland escape jail.
The reference was handed to Magistrate Jenny
Bowles and although it wasn’t read in court the defence lawyer said it was “
very positive”.
The magistrate said she was initially going to send Harland
straight to jail. Instead, after the
Schwarz words of wisdom she fined Harland
$3500 and gave him a suspended sentence.
Obviously
Schwarz can kick goals off the field as well as own.
But look at the
Harland case.
He was visiting Jason
Moran, one of Australia’s least savoury people.
A loaded
semi-automatic pistol was found in a bag in his car.
When asked if it was his
gun the smart-arse replied: “ It wasn’t in there when we pulled up”.
Then
when guards called police Harland
and a friend fled.
He was arrested later in Melbourne. Hardly the actions of an
innocent man.
But there are other
links between famous footballers and the Morans.
Kangaroos captain, Wayne
Carey, gave character evidence for Jason Jason
Moran,
to try to lessen his prison sentence.
You may recall
Carey became some sort of rehabilitation expert based on several vague conversations
he had with Moran when he bumped into him in the supermarket on a couple of
occasions.
Still I guess it
beats grabbing a strange woman on the breast outside a nightclub at 9 o’clock
in the morning.
Now, there is a
bigger issue here.
Does the AFL step in and ask questions about players and who
they associate with in cases like these? An American football commissioner
certainly would.
And with good reason.
Football is big
business. Football betting is big business. And I believe football must not only
be clean but be seen to be clean.
When cricket matches
can be fixed at an international level anything can happen in any sport. And
things are not helped when governing bodies - like the Australian Cricket Board
- try to shove things under the carpet.
Mark Waugh and Shane Warne would have
been banned for life in the United States and should have been expelled for at
least two years here.
But that, as they
say, is another story.
- Derryn Hinch
Lewis
and Jason Moran arranged to kill rival Carl
Williams in front of scores of guests at his daughter's May 2001
christening.
The planned public bloodbath was foiled at the
last minute when police secretly stepped in to save Williams.
Detectives set up a sting operation in which
Williams was arrested and jailed just hours before the scheduled hit.
A person deep within drug boss Tony
Mokbel's gang tipped off police that Williams was about to be murdered at
his six-week-old daughter Dhakota's christening.
The informer told a detective the Morans had
hired two Sydney hitmen to gun down Williams at a Keilor reception centre during
the christening party.
The burly drug lord was shocked when police told
him about the sickening plan.
"But then Carl showed some grudging respect
for the plan, saying it wasn't a bad one as he would have had his guard down at
his daughter's christening," a police source said.
Detectives believe the foiled plot prompted
Williams to come up with his own plan to murder Jason Moran when he least
expected it.
The Morans put a contract on Williams in 2001
after he shot dead Mark Moran.
They wanted to deliver a strong message and
decided killing Williams in front of family and friends at his daughter's
christening was a very public way of proving that point.
Police discovered the plot only three days before
it was due to be carried out.
An emergency meeting of senior officers was
called to discuss how to thwart the attack.
They decided that staking out the christening
party in the hope of identifying and catching the hitmen was too dangerous.
A plan to put a booze bus outside the christening
to deter the execution was considered.
However the meeting decided getting Williams
behind bars was the safest option.
Williams was on bail awaiting trial over a $20 million drug operation, so
another arrest would guarantee to put him behind bars and out of reach of the
hired killers.
Police command agreed to provide $100,000 to detectives so they could set up a
sting involving an undercover officer buying drugs from Williams.
An undercover officer had recently made contact with drug dealer Walter
Foletti.
Evidence suggested that Foletti was getting his drugs from Williams.
Detectives planned to use the $100,000 to get proof that Williams was Foletti's
supplier.
Police bugs recorded the undercover officer asking Foletti on May 18, 2001, if
he could provide a large quantity of ecstasy tablets in a hurry.
Later that day, Foletti told the undercover officer he had spoken to the
supplier's wife, Roberta Williams.
She said would confirm the deal the next day.
Foletti rang the Williams home at 10.20am on May 19 and asked to speak to Carl,
but was told by Roberta that her husband was still in bed.
He asked her if her husband was "organising that thing for me" and
that "the bloke is going to ring me up after 12".
Roberta Williams told him the deal was set for that day.
The undercover officer rang Foletti at noon and arranged to meet at the
McDonald's car park in Sydenham about 2pm.
He arranged to buy 8000 ecstasy tablets for $100,000.
Detectives photocopied the notes which made up the $100,000 before putting them
in a green shoebox and giving them to the undercover officer.
Foletti arrived at the car park with his nephew, Pablo Foletti, and parked his
white Jeep near the undercover officer's car.
Foletti gave a shopping bag containing 8000 ecstasy tablets embossed with the
letters XTC to the undercover officer, who handed over the shoe box stuffed with
$100,000.
As this was happening, Carl Williams rang Roberta and was recorded asking her if
the deal had been done yet.
Roberta told him she hadn't heard, but expected to soon.
Foletti rang her at 3.13pm and she told him to "bring what you've got
now", but Foletti told her it would be better if she came to him.
Roberta Williams immediately got in her dark BMW coupe and drove to Foletti's
house in the suburb of Hillside.
Surveillance police watched her leave Foletti's house three minutes later. She
was carrying a blue shopping bag.
Other surveillance police saw Carl Williams arriving home at 3.24pm in his white
Mitsubishi Lancer.
He took a call from his wife on his mobile and she told him she was at the
Watergardens shopping centre in Sydenham.
Police followed as he drove there and watched as Carl and Roberta Williams met.
After walking round the shops, they got into Carl's car.
Heavily armed members of the special operations group swooped as soon as Carl
and Roberta got in the vehicle.
Carl Williams was found with Victoria Police's $100,000 in his lap and he and
Roberta were jailed that day.
Roberta was granted bail 48 hours later, but it was 14 months before Carl got
out.
The couple were both later convicted of trafficking in a commercial quantity of
ecstasy over the drug sting that saved Carl's life.
Foletti was jailed for five years and six months.
Dhakota's christening was rescheduled for December 2003 after her father was
released.
Carl and Roberta were keen to portray themselves as a loving and law-abiding
family.
They invited the ABC's Four Corners to film the christening at Crown
casino's plush Palladium Room. They chose Crown because is had the best security
in Victoria.
Among the 120 guests was Greg Domaszewicz -- the
babysitter who was acquitted over the 1997 murder of Moe toddler Jaidyn Leskie.
Police and the underworld
expected that when Jason Moran was released from prison
he would go after Carl
Williams to avenge his brothers' killing.
But when he was freed
from Fulham Prison on
September 5, 2001, Williams was back inside on remand,
having been charged in the May with trafficking 8000
ecstasy tablets.
In
an unusual move, the parole board let
Moran go overseas because of fears for his life, while
Williams continued to recruit from a small area filled
with potential killers — Port Phillip Prison.
Once the man known as the
Runner decided to accept Carl
Williams'
offer to join his band of hitmen, they
celebrated with a quiet drink inside the prison's
Swallow Unit.
According to the Runner,
it was there that Williams
first asked him to kill Jason Moran.
Moran had been spotted in London by one of the
Williams team (the "Lieutenant" ) and,
unwisely, decided to return, even though he must have
known his life was still in danger.
Jason
(pictured left with his mother, Judy) was known as a hothead.
