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Rachael Ward and Callum Godde

'Waste of time': Lawyer X investigator's threat to quit

A royal commission found Nicola Gobbo's dual role could have affected more than 1000 convictions. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

It is so unlikely anyone will be charged over the Lawyer X scandal that a top investigator has threatened to quit if his own probe into the affair is not shut down.

Special investigator Geoffrey Nettle said the continuation of his probe into the use of barrister Nicola Gobbo as a police source during Victoria's gangland war would be a "waste of time" because of constant rejections by Director of Public Prosecutions Kerri Judd.

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