Barrister-turned-informer Nicola Gobbo tells 7.30 she fears Victoria Police will kill her or leak information that could lead to her death.
"Victoria Police most likely knew all of that. They'd done all their homework and knew exactly how to play me."She said detectives came to visit her as she lay in a high-dependency hospital unit unable to speak."I mean what do you say to that? That's cold.
"One of the pressures at that time, the gangland war period, was police executing search warrants on solicitors' offices, checking money in trust accounts. So I made the assumption that, as a number of lawyers did, that our phones were being unlawfully monitored and that of course … things can be taken out of context. So I think that police, they certainly gave people such as myself the impression that … they had stuff that they would use [against me]," Ms Gobbo said.
Ms Gobbo said she had not had sexual relationships with clients but declined to go into detail, citing her need to first speak to the royal commission.The Lawyer X scandal has rocked the justice system in Victoria. What did the top cops know? Four Corners investigates.
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