At the time of writing:
Carl Williams was murdered in April 2010 by another inmate wielding a piece of exercise bike. Victoria Police merged the probe into the unsolved Hodsons’ killing with that of Carl’s death in prison. Prisoner Matthew Johnson pleaded self-defence but in September 2011 a jury convicted him of Williams’s murder.
The gangland war had sputtered from outrageous to pathetic. At the time of writing, the most recent fatalities of gangland figures were Carl’s jailhouse death, the sad, lonely suicide of his mum and George’s estranged wife, Barbara Ann, and the shooting of peripheral figure Des ‘Tuppence’ Moran at the behest of his sister-in-law Judy.
Judy Moran was convicted of ordering the murder of her brother-in-law ‘Tuppence’.
On Sydney Road two hundred yuppies were set to move into the bluestone jail that beat Ronald Ryan, Christopher Flannery and Chopper Read. The intimidating structure that breathes Melbourne criminal history was converted into an apartment precinct – ‘Pentridge piazza’, complete with cafe. Brunswick locals have so far kept Tony’s former five shopfronts along Sydney Road as just that. They had not been turned into a giant ‘Bent Penis’ or even straight high-rise developments.
Renate Mokbel was released early on a home-detention scheme. She was living in the Downs Street mansion but it was expected to be auctioned as a proceed of crime. She and Danielle managed to patch up any hard feelings with Danielle visiting her at the Brunswick home.
Zarah Garde-Wilson kept Caine’s sperm but it was a smaller-time crim’s babies she ended up having – a daughter, then later, twins, to a defendant called Lansley Simon with a string of priors, the most recent of which, spray-painting handbags at Versace’s Crown Casino store, seemed more like a political or artistic statement than a misdemeanour. She was caught at a jail with 100 needles and 125 syringes in her car boot after claiming they were for her boyfriend who used steroids; she was never charged.
Agent Jarrod Ragg, of the AFP, got an Australian Police Medal on Australia Day 2009.
Detective Jim Coghlan, of Purana, did not.
Victoria Police and the AFP remain the best of friends.
Kabalan Mokbel’s outstanding charges were dropped in a nolle prosequi (application by the prosecution to withdraw charges) shortly after Tony did his deal.
Horty Mokbel was accused of assaulting another prisoner but the case had not run at the time of writing.
Danielle McGuire continued to be unlucky in love. Her latest beau, Bandido sergeant-at-arms Toby Mitchell, was gunned down, though not fatally, in broad daylight in Brunswick in 2012.
Pillar of Hercules, at the time of writing, was still racing, just under less colourful new owners.
Steve from the Bonnie Doon shop had replaced his The Castle-influenced ‘Bonnie Doon – ahhh the serenity’ T-shirts with a Mokbel-influenced ‘Bonnie Doon – the perfect hideaway’ line of apparel.