Walter Sofronoff cancels Queensland Media Club event discussing ‘presumption of innocence’

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Walter Sofronoff, the head of the ACT inquiry into the handling of the Bruce Lehrmann prosecution, has pulled out of a Queensland Media Club event at which he was to discuss the presumption of innocence".

Sofronoff, who was criticised by the ACT chief minister, Andrew Barr, for handing his report to a columnist from The Australian before the government, was slated to appear at an event on 25 August hosted by Hedley Thomas, the newspaper's national chief correspondent.

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