Mounting deaths in Melbourne’s gangland wars heaped pressure on detectives, court told
Nicola Gobbo was a young and vulnerable barrister “looking for a way out” of dealing with gangland clients, such as Tony Mokbel, when police saw an opportunity, her lawyers claim.to sign the bar roll suddenly found herself “neck deep” in the underworld and feared for her personal safety and wellbeing.
The killings kept coming and they were not getting solved, so detectives became desperate, and caution and practice protocols went by the wayside, he said. She said officers made promises to Gobbo that could not be kept, including that they would protect her and that her identity would never be revealed.
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