After the first season of the ABC's true-crime podcast Trace, which investigated the unsolved murder of Melbourne woman Maria James, reporter Rachael Brown was looking around for a subject for season two. "But in my heart, I was thinking it's never going to happen because I'd already tried for other ABC programs and hadn't heard back," she says. Finally, after …
A convicted killer and former client of barrister turned informer Nicola Gobbo said many underworld players wish her harm but he's not one of them. Key points: A former client of Nicola Gobbo says she should be more fearful of vengeful police officers than the criminal underworld Ms Gobbo questions whether some prosecutors were told she was an informer Former …
Drug Lord Tony Mokbel and ecstasy trafficker Rob Karam have moved a giant leap forward in their bids for freedom after Victoria Police's mismanagement of Lawyer X saw convicted killer Faruk Orman released. In May, Court of Appeal president Chris Maxwell said Victoria police must focus its investigations on Mokbel, Karam and Cvetanovski because their appeal cases bore directly on …
Former defence barrister Nicola Gobbo can now be revealed as Lawyer X, the police informer at the centre of a 15-year legal scandal that risks overturning the convictions of dangerous underworld criminals. Key points: Nicola Gobbo was a prominent barrister who represented gangland figures including Carl Williams and Tony Mokbel She was registered as a police informer between 1995 and …
