Chopper turns his attention to the vicious Melbourne underworld war that
began in the late 1990s and would kill more than 30 gangsters before the
police finally took back control of the streets. Chopper s experience
and insider information make him the best person to tell the shocking
story. Police investigators established that a gang of new-boy crooks
run by a chubby suburban drug dealer called Carl Williams were out to
exterminate established crime figures. Williams wanted to be king of the
manor in Melbourne and found himself in the middle of a hurricane of
mayhem and murder. The deaths caused a power vacuum within Melbourne s
criminal community as various factions fought for control and influence.
The majority of the murders remain unsolved, although police believe
that Williams was responsible for up to10 of them. On February 28, 2007,
Williams pleaded guilty to three counts of murder. In return for being
released from prison by the time he is 70, police will not charge
Williams with the other murders they believe he committed. So Carl
Williams got 35 years in jail. But years before police set up a
taskforce to tackle the murder wave, poacher-turned-gamekeeper Chopper
warned that the war was about to explode. And he predicted who would
die. He was right."
