Even when his job was to make sure police were behaving properly, the man now leading Victoria Police did not think to question Nicola Gobbo's use as a source because it was sanctioned by senior officers, the royal commission has heard. Key points: Graham Ashton told the inquiry he "took some comfort" in the fact the "highest levels" of police …
Every day at Victoria's Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants, more than 20 lawyers squeeze around a table that runs the length of the hearing room. Victoria Police controls the flow of information, a point Assistant Commissioner Neil Paterson made when he fronted the commission, when he informed a lawyer they would only get the information they asked …
Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Jeff Pope has denied having a sexual relationship with Nicola Gobbo, the woman at the centre of a legal scandal miring the state's justice system and also known as Lawyer X. Key points: Ms Gobbo told two police officers she'd had an on-and-off again sexual relationship with Mr Pope for months She made the claims …
There were suggestions Nicola Gobbo, the former barrister and police informer known as Lawyer X, was having a sexual relationship with one of the police officers who first registered her as a police informer, the royal commission has heard. Key points: Ms Gobbo's lawyer asked Trevor Ashton if he knew his colleague claimed to have been intimate with Ms Gobbo …