'He's not that sort of person': Carl Williams daughter defends crimes
The daughter of drug kingpin and gangland killer Carl Williams has defended her father, saying he did it to "protect the family".
In an interview to air on Channel Seven's Sunday Night, Williams' only child, Dhakota, said the man who became known as the baby-faced killer was a loving father.
She said she accepted that he was involved in the murder of at least four men but said this did not change her view of him.
"He did it for us," she said.
Williams was a key figure in Melbourne's brutal underworld war of the 1990s and immortalised in the popular TV series 'Underbelly'.
Over a period of 12 years in Melbourne, 36 crime figures were executed in revenge attacks as rival groups battled for control of the drug trade.
Dhakota was just a toddler when Williams was finally jailed in 2004 for his part in the murder of four of them.
He was bashed to death by a fellow inmate in Melbourne's Barwon prison in April 2010 as he was about to make a deal with police to give evidence against corrupt officers.
His daughter, now 15, said her father did what he did to protect the family and she remembers vividly the day he died.
She said she did not see him as a killer.
"I don't see him like that," she said.
"That's obviously what (people) are going to think because that's how he's been put out there and made to look.
"But he's not, he wasn't like that.
"If you spoke to him and got to know him, you'd think he's not that sort of person and you can tell he did it for his family ‘cause he was all for us, all for us family."
Speaking alongside her half-sister and William's step-daughter, Brianane, Dhakota said she was part of a "normal family".
"We know our dad as our dad, not what he's described as in the newspapers... so we know him as fun and loving and caring for us, and always made us happy," she said.
Williams' ex-wife, Roberta, admitted she had been seduced by the lifestyle and money which came with being at the top of Melbourne's drug trade.
Dhakota's christening party cost $150,000, including $20,000 for Vanessa Amarosi to perform, $7000 for Roberts'a dress and $4000 for Dhakota's. Briad Cadd was also flown in to sing Little Ray of Sunshine.
But Roberta Williams said that life was behind her and all she wanted now was to protect her children.
The interviews came as hundreds of letters -- written by Williams on his prison computer -- were uncovered.
The documents, which had been locked away for six years and were the subject of a fierce court battle between Roberta Williams and the Victorian Government, will also be revealed on Sunday Night.
They include loving messages from Williams to his daughter and step-daughter, notes to fellow criminals and letters where he seeks to justify the killings.
They also suggest that he might have been involved in more murders.
The documents, which were password protected, have been unlocked with the discovery of his password - his daughter's name: "Dhakota_".
Watch the full story on Sunday Night July 24 at 7PM
