Police who investigated Bruce Lehrmann sue Shane Drumgold for $1.42m over critical comments

Five AFP officers say complaints in a November 2022 letter brought them into public disrepute, odium, ridicule and contempt'

Five federal police officers are suing the Australian Capital Territory government and Shane Drumgold for $1.42m over the former director of public prosecutions' complaint about the handling of Bruce Lehrmann's prosecution.

In December 2022 Guardian Australia revealed that Drumgold had written to the ACT detective superintendent Scott Moller shortly after the trial's collapse, saying he held concerns that police were politically influenced and had aligned themselves with the defence.

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