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When up-and-coming drug dealer Carl Williams was shot in his ample tummy in 1999 in a small park in Gladstone Park no one could have predicted Melbourne was about to plunge into a decade-long underworld war.
Williams met half-brothers Mark and Jason Moran at the park to sort out a few business details, including the ownership of a pill press and a $400,000 disputed debt.
Carl Williams arrives at court with father George in April 2004.
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Without warning, Jason pulled a gun at the Barrington Crescent park and ended the debate with a bullet. When Mark suggested he finish the job by killing Williams, the ever-practical Jason said, “Then how are we going to get our money back?”
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Melbourne underworld figure Mick Gatto has opened up about his colourful past and revealed the one label he is vehemently opposed to.
Gatto, now aged 65, also insisted he was not involved in any unsolved crimes and denied ever being a cold-blooded killer, in a interview with the Herald Sun.
In 2005, Gatto was acquitted of the shooting murder of gangland hitman Andrew Benji Veniamin a year earlier in Carlton on the grounds of self-defence. I m not a hitman. I was acquitted, Gatto said.
Melbourne underworld figure Mick Gatto (pictured) has provided a rare insight into his life in an interview with the Herald Sun published on Sunday
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