Tension, distrust between ACT police and prosecution in Lehrmann trial

The rape investigation into former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann was underpinned from the beginning by tension between ACT Police and Director of Public Prosecutions, a high-powered inquiry has heard, as it prepares to scrutinise the conduct of the authorities during the abandoned trial.

“From the outset, engagement between the DPP and ACT police in this matter was beset by tension,” Longbottom said. “It is only concerned with the way in which each of the criminal justice agencies involved fulfilled their duties in the investigation and prosecution of those allegations, as well as in the course of providing support to Ms Higgins in that proceeding,” she said.

Drumgold’s conduct is also under the spotlight, with the inquiry to determine whether he adhered to his duties in starting and then discontinuing criminal proceedings against Lehrmann.

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