The other day I suggested that the ex-Police Commissioner of Victoria, under fire for her behaviour during Black Saturday, had organised the hit on Carl Williams. My underworld sources have been squawking loud and long about it.
There has been much muddying of the waters with even a suggestion that Chopper Read had organised it due to the close relationship of him with the alleged murderer. Chopper as usual was very irreverent when asked about the murder. Chopper clearly doesn’t give a rats arse about Carl Williams but he is very clearly hinting at where to go looking for connections.
Not everyone was as concerned over Williams’ death, with veteran criminal Mark “Chopper” Read saying his first reaction to the news was to burst out laughing.
Read told Adelaide radio that he knew Carl “would end up getting it sooner or later”.
“I spat out my drink. And laughed my head off. And I thought to myself, ‘hah hah hah, another one bites the dust,” Read said of hearing the news.
He told Nova FM’s breakfast show in Adelaide that he wasn’t surprised a supposed ally may have been involved.
“If you want someone to kill you, you’ve got your friends or relatives to do it.”
He said he had never been impressed by Williams: “He was just a big, fat, wobbly-bottom kid from Footscray. He wasn’t much of a man at all. He was nothing.”
Meanwhile my sources tell me that differing bent factions inside the Victoria Police are heading for a bust up over the killing. The cronies of Christine Nixon are spinning and laying down smoke screens everywhere and those opposed to her are wanting to nail this corpse to her door.
In an interview on Channel Ten’s The Circle she was ambushed and gave a very strange answer to a direct question.
“Are you glad Carl Williams is dead?”
That’s the question embattled former police chief Christine Nixon faced today in what was billed as her first major media interview since the controversy erupted over her pub meal on Black Saturday.
Ms Nixon was appearing on the Channel 10 program The Circle, between segments about viewer makeovers, commercials for abdominal machines and fat-reducing techniques.
She was quizzed about her movements during the worst hours of the bushfire crisis and the meal on Black Saturday that has earned her so much recent criticism.
But midway through the interview the topic turned to notorious underworld figure Carl Williams, who was bashed to death on Monday in the high-security Acacia unit of Barwon Prison.
“Christine, can I ask you about Carl Williams? Are you glad that he’s dead?” asked panelist Gorgi Coghlann, to laughter from the audience and a look of bewilderment from Ms Nixon.
“Well you were the former chief commissioner of Victoria Police,” Coghlann said.
Ms Nixon diplomatically replied that her responsibility as a police commissioner was to ensure that when people committed offences they were brought before the courts and dealt with according to the law.
“Look, I think it’s disgraceful in the sense that criminals die in custody and I think that it’s a matter that will be investigated. And many, many people have made comments, and I’m not sure I add much to it.”
After which the topic quickly returned to bushfires.
The underworld money is being laid on Nixon being the one who ordered the hit and it is clear that Channel Ten has their ears to the underworld grapevine. Nixon is, of course, glad for this nice diversion from her troubles which is why Carl Williams was killed. The street isn’t happy and neither are the cop factions. there is going to be fall out and it isn’t far away.
