Bruce Lehrmann Appears on Second Rape Charge

Published on June 18, 2024

Former Liberal Party political staffer Bruce Lehrmann, found by a civil court judge to have raped Brittany Higgins, today faced a committal hearing in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court on two rape charges related to a different woman in October 2021. A criminal trial in 2022 for the rape was later aborted and the charge against him dropped. Mr. Lehrmann appealed the finding in a defamation trial, which was unsuccessful. Little is known about the details of the current charges, and the complainant gave evidence for about an hour in a closed court today from a remote location via video link. Magistrate Mark Howden also granted an application that Mr. Lehrmann be obscured from the woman’s view while she testified....

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