Barwon Prison News Today

Instead of hiding in the shadows, gangsters are flaunting their wealth. Changes to the law may see them trip over their extravagance, right into trouble..

A second man charged over the execution-style shooting of gangland figure Gavin Capable Preston has front...

Police arrested Rabii Abram Zahabe, 24, on unrelated charges when he was in Sydney s CBD on Wednesday.

Veniamin, known as Benji, was shot dead in the of back of a now defunct pizza shop, La Porchetta, by Melbourne gangland figure Mick Gatto on March 23, 2004 aged 28.

More than 2000 “shivs”, knuckle dusters and bludgeons have been found inside Victoria’s network of 12 prisons over the past five years – a rate of about one weapon a day.

In the days before drug kingpin Tony Mokbel vanished mid-trial, fleeing to Greece, his lawyer Nicola Gobbo told police to keep a close eye on him – and at the same time secretly encouraged him to escape.

Underworld killer Carl Williams warned Tony Mokbel not to trust his barrister-turned-informant Nicola Gobbo. Mokbel was arrested at an Athens coffee shop in Glifatha June 2007, and said that his lawyer Nicola Gobbo advised him to flee overseas.

When Tony Mokbel was returned to Australia from Greece he ignored a plea from the gangland killer not to trust the supergrass barrister.

Jailed crime lord Fat Tony Mokbel has spilled the beans on how detectives crushed his illicit empire at the close of the Underbelly War. 

For the first time in more than a decade, former drug kingpin Tony Mokbel has spoken in public, at a trial for his appeal after the Lawyer X scandal.