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- #276
Yes it is a huge scandal and there is little doubt several of the heaviest Victorian drug dealers and contract killers will be freed and eligible for compensation. You simply cannot have a situation in our legal system where defendants are engaging and instructing a lawyer who is secretly informing privileged information to the Police/prosecution.
The roots of this go right back to the Walsh Street Police killings when the Victorian Wallopers very underhandedly bugged the police cells they provided for coke head Lawyer Andrew Fraser to speak with his client Anthony Farell and were listening in as Fraser told Farrell in no uncertain terms to shut his mouth , full stop.
It was unheard of at the time,largely ignored , and explained away as the" means justifying the end " to solve the brutal slayings of two young officers
Decades later we have progressed to this absolute farce which was entertained as a means to ending Melbournes underworld war/contract killing spree.
We don't know yet under the circumstances the information was supplied. People are speculating what happened.
Apparently only a few were clients of the barrister that were informed on at what point we don't know. It narrows it down.
Although in the process, a murderous gangland war was ceased. What a horrible predicament.
Otherwise, potentially the people making appeals not yet granted may have been assassinated.
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