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If there was an ambush it was the next morning and it was not Watson’s. The exhausted barrister was looking to hand off to his junior the final day of hearings before an Easter break but, at about 9.15am, he received an email. Di Girolamo’s lawyers had found a very polite thank-you note in O’Farrell’s handwriting that confirmed O’Farrell had taken delivery of the wine. Watson says his reaction was one of “total shock”. O’Farrell had failed to declare the gift in his register of pecuniary interests and, wittingly or unwittingly, misled ICAC about it. It was clear that as “an honourable man” he would have to consider resigning. “I screamed at the top of my lungs “f---ing hell” . . . I then got in the lift, went up and saw the Commissioner [Megan Latham].” Watson then told O’Farrell’s lawyer, who asked Watson to delay the start of the hearing so that the premier could resign in his own time Dr Watson
