Melbourne gangland getaway driver Faruk Orman will be immediately released from jail because of a “substantial miscarriage of justice” caused by his double-agent lawyer Nicola Gobbo, also known as Lawyer X.
Victoria’s court of appeal ordered Orman be released without delay after a hearing in Melbourne on Friday found he should be acquitted due to Gobbo’s actions while she was representing him.
She is alleged to have encouraged a key witness, whose evidence was central to securing Orman’s conviction, to talk to police.
It’s the first conviction to be overturned in the wake of the Lawyer X scandal, uncovered when police were forced to reveal that Gobbo had been acting as their informant.