Brittany Higgins notified one of many ABC’s most revered journalists that she deliberate to make a proper criticism towards the federal police, based on leaked WhatsApp messages.
In a collection of messages between Higgins and ABC 7.30’s Laura Tingle, obtained by Day by day Mail Australia, Higgins accused the Australian Federal Police of going towards protocol and releasing her psychological well being data and different personal info to the authorized staff of Bruce Lehrmann, the previous Liberal staffer she had accused of raping her in March 2019.
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In 2021, Higgins publicly accused Lehrmann of rape, a cost he has all the time denied. Lehrmann’s trial was deserted in October final 12 months after juror misconduct and no findings have been made towards him.
Final week Australian Federal Police appearing Assistant Commissioner Joanne Cameron advised an inquiry, led by Walter Sofronoff, KC, that federal police detective Superintendent Scott Moller believed it was “clear” that Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold had tipped off Tingle that the criticism was about to be lodged.
However the leaked textual content messages contradict Moller’s supposition, though Higgins’ messages counsel that Drumgold had assisted her in making the criticism towards police.
Higgins wrote to Tingle that she deliberate to make a proper criticism concerning the AFP for serving the “full breif [sic] of proof to the defence” and for together with “all my psychological well being data, session notes from the Canberra Rape Disaster Centre and full movies of my EIC [evidence in chief] interviews”.
“That is clearly an enormous breach of privateness, illegal and fairly anxious,” she wrote.
Tingle responded sympathetically, saying the scenario was “f—ing outrageous” and promising to maintain the data “firmly within the vault”.
Weeks later Tingle and Higgins have been involved once more concerning the formal criticism and within the lead-up to a narrative she printed on April 27 concerning the criticism, the ABC journalist contacted the police for remark, which prompted Moller to suspect Drumgold of the leak.
