Career criminal facing deportation back to NZ

Joseph Williams. Photo / Supplied

Former mobster Joseph Williams has more crimes to his name than he has children - and that's a lot, given that his partner is pregnant with their 10th child.

Now, the Australian Government has had enough of him, and is seeking to deport the one-man crimewave back to New Zealand.

Williams, aged 35, a former Mongrel Mob member, has won an appeal against the attempt to remove him, saying his life is in danger from former gang associates.

But Australian Immigration Minister Chris Bowen is understood to be seeking advice on overturning the decision.

Williams, who also used the name Kahotea Jayson Whata, has been convicted of 14 offences since fleeing to Queensland six years ago. He told the Administrative Appeals Tribunal last month he could not return home because Porirua Mongrel Mob gangsters wanted him dead.

The fear came after he confronted members about a rivalry drive-by shooting which injured one of his children in 2004.

He was expelled from the gang and fled to Australia where his terminally ill mother, Joy Williams, lives.

She told the Herald on Sunday she was terrified her son would be killed if he was deported.

"If he goes over there and he dies what do we tell his kids? Whatever he does he doesn't deserve to die."