The former wife of murdered gangland boss Carl Williams has been excused from completing community work for old criminal offending because of ill health.
Roberta Williams fronted Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday to plead guilty to breaching a community corrections order for not paying her fines in time and not completing the unpaid community work required of her.
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'Maybe two' more murders for Carl Williams
Roberta Williams believes her ex-husband may be responsible for more murders, telling Seven's Sunday Night "names have come up on his computer".
Defence counsel Emma Turnbull said Williams had been unable to complete the hours because of recent ill health and hospital visits, and asked that magistrate Joanne Metcalf close the court so Williams could give "intimate" evidence about her medical problems.
Williams coughed several times through the hearing as her lawyer addressed the court.
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The court was closed for several minutes while Williams gave evidence.
When the court reopened, Ms Metcalf said she was satisfied Williams could not perform the community work and imposed a total fine of more than $3600 for a driving offence and obtaining a financial advantage by deception, offending from 2004 and 2010 respectively.
Ms Turnbull earlier said Williams had tried to pay the fines a couple of years ago but by that stage they had been passed onto the sheriff's office.
Then when a sheriff's officer visited her at home she did not have the money to pay, the court heard.
Williams, Ms Turnbull said, was in a "difficult financial position" having been declared bankrupt last year and still with a legal battle on her hands over the estate of George Williams, her late former father-in-law.
Roberta Williams has been in a feud with George Williams' partner, Kathleen Bourke, about getting a share to his Broadmeadows home.
Ms Turnbull told the court she had not expected Roberta Williams to attend court on Thursday, but "she felt well enough to get here" because she wanted the matter finalised.