Australia's Deadliest Prisoners

The men Australia's prisons could not hold: hitmen, enforcers and the most feared names inside.

  1. The General: Matthew Johnson, Prison Hitman · In HM Prison Barwon, Victoria's highest-security jail, the Melbourne gangland boss Carl Williams sat in a secure unit reading a newspaper. He was serving life for murder, and he was still making headlines. Matthew Johnso
  2. Deadly Duo: Ange Goussis and Keith Faure, Hit Men · In Melbourne's gangland war, two names stood out as professional hitmen. Evangelos "Ange" Goussis was a former kickboxing champion who became a feared enforcer and a convicted contract killer. Keith Faure was a career cr
  3. Terrence Blewitt v the Carlton Crew · A tip-off from an underworld source led Victoria's Piranha Task Force to a junkyard on Melbourne's northern fringe. Three metres down they found the skeleton of Terrence Blewitt. He was a violent armed robber who picked
  4. Alphonse Gangitano and Chopper Read's Violent Feud · Mark "Chopper" Read and Alphonse Gangitano were two of the most violent men in Melbourne's underworld, and for years they were at war with each other. This film sets out how that feud began, the night the two men were to
  5. Dane Sweetman: The Most Violent Nazi Prison Gang · On 20 April 1990, Adolf Hitler's birthday, a group of Melbourne skinheads gathered in a small house in Pascoe Vale South. They saw themselves as warriors in a coming race war. By the end of the night a man was dead, kill
  6. Nathan Jones: Robber, Prison Hardman, Redemption