Brittany Higgins has launched an attack against the attitudes of the police who investigated her rape claim against Bruce Lehrmann.
Brittany Higgins has launched an attack against the attitudes of the police who investigated her rape claim against her former colleague Bruce Lehrmann, claiming they were disgraced by their own conduct rather than the accusations of former director of public prosecutions Shane Drumgold, SC.
“They cast judgements about the merits of my advocacy and regularly reiterated the reasons why they thought that I shouldn’t proceed with pressing charges.” The trial was aborted in October due to juror misconduct and a retrial was abandoned over concerns about Higgins’ mental health, with the charge dropped. Lehrmann maintains his innocence and isThe case’s lead investigator, ACT Policing Detective Superintendent Scott Moller, told the inquiry he had warned Higgins against doing media interviews as it could damage the trial.
The Moller report, which was tendered to the inquiry, contained police opinions that Higgins was an evasive and manipulative witness, which Drumgold had likened to police judging a complainant for wearing a mini-skirt.She also said they wrongly handed her private counselling notes to the defence team, which police admitted to and said should never have been done. Inquiry chair Walter Sofronoff said this was not done intentionally.
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