Anti-corruption watchdog investigating claims federal police pressured Higgins not to proceed with alleged rape case
In the email, Ratcliffe confirmed the “potential leaking of documents and photos by AFP members to the media” is also being formally investigated by a separate team.Lehrmann vehemently maintains his innocence. He pleaded not guilty to one charge of sexual intercourse without consent, denying that any sexual activity had occurred.
His trial was abandoned in October last year after a juror was found to have brought outside evidence into the jury room. Prosecutors decided not to proceed with a retrial as it would pose an “unacceptable risk” to Higgins’s health.It comes afterin December that Drumgold complained that police officers engaged in “a very clear campaign to pressure” him not to prosecute Lehrmann.
This prompted the ACT government to launch an inquiry into the investigation of the case, led by former judge Walter Sofronoff KC. ACLEI will be folded into the national anti-corruption commission when it is created later this year.
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