Leaked recordings of a meeting involving Brittany Higgins and Lisa Wilkinson have been referred to police to investigate whether a contempt of court has been committed.
Recordings of a five-hour meeting involving Brittany Higgins and journalist Lisa Wilkinson that were leaked to the media have been referred to police to investigate whether a contempt of court has been committed by passing on sensitive documents originally meant for the Bruce Lehrmann criminal trial.
Lehrmann pleaded not guilty to raping Higgins in the office of then-defence minister Linda Reynolds in the early hours of March 23, 2019, in a trial that was aborted in October last year due to juror misconduct, with the proceedings being ultimately discontinued in December. ACT Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury said the inquiry would report to the territory government by July 31.“The government will respond accordingly once it has had time to consider the recommendations,” he said.the day the latter went public with her allegation on February 15, 2021, produced material to the court that was never used in the trial, but has since been distributed to the media by unidentified sources.
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