Seven West Media paid $100,000 for Carl Williams’ prison diaries and the participation of his former wife, Roberta, in a Sunday Night special that cast the slain drug lord and multiple murderer as a “soft and gentle” man.
The segment that ran on Seven’s flagship current affairs program last July featured family members eulogising Carl amid claims he ordered killings only to protect his family, rather than to eliminate rivals in Melbourne’s lucrative drug trade.
The deal with Roberta Williams provided the network with full access to Carl’s prison journals, which the program billed as Carl’s “voice from the grave”, as we…
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