The Lawyer X royal commission is a $100m handball and Victoria Police still has questions to answer

Victoria Police has a trust problem.

The McMurdo royal commission has finally reported what has been glaringly obvious for years: Victoria Police was willing to bend the rules and use a criminal barrister against her infamous clients to secure gangland convictions.

An independent investigator will soon be appointed to probe whether frontline police and the upper echelons, some still serving, have broken the law over the Nicola Gobbo informing scandal.

The charismatic barrister made police an offer too good to resist — inside access into her world of criminal clients, crucial information about murders, huge drug deals and labs.

The tantalising mail from Nicola Gobbo came at a time when police had dropped the ball on gathering criminal…