Brittany Higgins feared information about alleged rape could flow to Peter Dutton, court hears

Higgins tells court she shared audio files before deleting them from her phone because she was worried about what the police might do with the contents

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Brittany Higgins has told a court she deleted material from her phone prior to submitting it to police because she had simply wanted to purge" the horrible parts of my life", including images of her former boss, Linda Reynolds, and was concerned about the flow of information to the then home affairs minister Peter Dutton.

The cross-examination of Higgins continued on Friday, when defence barrister Steven Whybrow pressed her on the deletion of material from her phone in 2021, as she prepared to reinstate a police complaint against her former colleague and political staffer Bruce Lehrmann.

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