Mick Gatto loses defamation case over Lawyer X article
By Naomi Hatcher|01 March 2021
Victoria’s Supreme Court has sided with the ABC in defamation proceedings brought by underworld figure Mick Gatto who alleged the national broadcaster had alluded that he was a murderer who threatened to kill police informant Nicola Gobbo.
The 2019 article reported an allegation that Mick Gatto had threatened to harm former barrister and police source Nicola Gobbo after he learnt she was providing privileged information to investigators, and detailed reports that he was a “hit man, murderer and someone who had plotted or arranged the murder of others”.