SLAIN gangland killer Carl Williams was beaten so badly paramedics trying to save him were unable to recognise one of Victoria's best-known faces.

A jail source told the Herald Sun yesterday that prison authorities hadn't told the five ambulance officers who their stricken patient was. "Carl was beaten to such a pulp that he was unrecognisable. The ambos never even knew who it was they were treating," the source said. The Herald Sun has discovered Williams was attacked at 12.48pm on Monday, and jail authorities didn't call Ambulance Victoria until 1.21pm. Williams, 39, who had been...