‘I’m resigning if he’s found guilty’: Detective said Lehrmann was innocent, lawyer says

Steven Whybrow, SC, who defended Lehrmann against an allegation he sexually assaulted his colleague Brittany Higgins in March 2019, alleged in a statement tendered to an inquiry into the abandoned case that investigating officer Detective Inspector Marcus Boorman told him in a Canberra backstreet he would resign if the jury returned a guilty verdict.

“I had never before had a conversation with a police officer who had indicated that they were going to resign because they had been ordered to prosecute someone they considered was innocent.” Lehrmann pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting Higgins in the parliamentary office of former Coalition Minister Linda Reynolds, for whom the pair both worked, after a night drinking with colleagues.

“I am concerned that Mr Drumgold, SC, did not act as an objective minister for justice. This was a matter that, from the outset, was compromised by adverse media publicity,” Whybrow said.

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