Damning secret reports into Informer 3838's use as a gangland informer found that the force failed to obtain legal advice before they used her, and instead relied on her to “self-regulate” her ethics and told her to obtain intelligence about her clients.
She was also told to obtain intelligence about her clients for use in investigations, and she provided legal and tactical advice to police about pending criminal proceedings against her clients, the Kellam report found. Mr Comrie found the risk assessment protocols were grossly inadequate and no controls were developed or implemented, Mr Paterson stated.
She had a stroke and then heart surgery in 2004 before she returned to work as a barrister. She provided information to Purana detective Stuart Bateson about a barrister and solicitor who were passing messages between Williams, who was in prison, and people outside including Mokbel.Ms Gobbo told Detective Bateson that one lawyer was living in an apartment owned by Mokbel and he had arranged finance for their car, Mr Paterson's statement says.