Carl Williams ordered murder on behalf of former Victorian detective, court told
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Version 0 of 1. Gangland killer Carl Williams ordered the police informer Terence Hodson be killed on behalf of a former Victorian detective, Paul Dale, an inquest has been told. Hodson and his wife, Christine, were found shot dead at their Kew home in May 2004, shortly before Hodson was to give evidence in a criminal trial against Dale. A witness, who cannot be named, told an inquest into the Hodsons' deaths that Williams told him he had arranged for Hodson to be killed. “He [Williams] said, ‘I ordered the hit for Paul Dale’,” the witness told the Victorian coroners court on Wednesday. Dale and a contract killer, Rodney Charles Collins, were charged with the Hodsons' murders in 2009, but the charges were dropped in 2010 after Williams was killed in prison. Both men deny any involvement in the Hodsons' deaths. The witness told the inquest that Williams had paid Dale, who was then a drug squad detective, for information on police investigations. He said Williams was too “shy” to find a second police source. “Carl wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. He only had one source,” the witness said. The inquest was told that Williams once tried to source a rocket launcher so he could kill Jason Moran and blow up his house. Moran was gunned down in front of children at a football clinic in 2003 during Melbourne's gangland war. The inquest, before the state coroner, judge Ian Gray, continues. |