By Shive Prema For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 13:55 BST, 28 June 2019 | Updated: 23:48 BST, 28 June 2019
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A hitman who handed over Carl Williams to police after helping to kill a man on his behalf could have been encouraged by Lawyer X.
Former barrister Nicola Gobbo, 46, claimed to play a 'pivotal role' in turning the hitman to police at the Lawyer X royal commission in Melbourne on Friday.
Gobbo was a registered police informer from 2005 to 2009 who had represented Williams and two of his hitmen, a driver and shooter, who killed Michael Marshall.
One of the hitmen spelt out Williams' initials in a police interview hours after driving his accomplice to shoot dead Marshall outside his South Yarra home in 2003.
Marshall was gunned down in front of his five-year-old son while police heard the shooting unfold through a bug in the getaway car.
Michael Marshall's murder and the
