A royal commission has heard allegations two police officers threatened and intimidated gangland lawyer Nicola Gobbo during a 1998 meeting to gain information about her boss.
A February 2, 1998 diary entry by Ms Gobbo — in which she detailed a meeting with two police officers — was tabled at the hearing today.
In the entry, Ms Gobbo notes the officers said her boss (who could not be named for legal reasons) was a "crook" who "should be in jail".
They allegedly asked her if she was "aware of anything" and whether she was "involved in anything".
The diary entry says the officers told her that her "name is mentioned on tapes" and "mud sticks, get a raincoat".
Ms Gobbo's diary entry says the officers were "aware of my priors" and were "happy to protect me for my assistance".
The commission heard one of the officers at the meeting was Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Bowden.
The other officer cannot be named but was given the pseudonym Kruger.
Kruger told the Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants, which is examining if it was appropriate for police to use Ms Gobbo as a source, his own diary suggested the meeting took place, but he could not recall it.
"Do you agree if Ms Gobbo was told those things in Feb of 1998, that would have been an extraordinary thing to occur," Megan Tittensor, the counsel assisting the commission asked.
Kruger replied "Yeah I do."
"It would be threatening conduct towards a junior solicitor," she said.
"I don't know, is that threatening conduct? I don't know. I don't recall that conversation," Kruger said.
"Do you honestly expect the commission to accept that you have got no memory of such conduct by you and your superior," Ms Tittensor asked.
"I have to because that's the only answer I can give. Sorry," Kruger replied.
Counsel for Nicola Gobbo, Peter Collinson QC, put it to Kruger that if Ms Gobbo's record of the conversation was accurate, what was said to her was "deeply intimidatory".
"Yeah it would be," Kruger said.
The hearing will resume on Thursday.
