‘I’ll send you the transcript’: emails and texts between head of Lehrmann inquiry and News Corp columnist revealed

Message chain shows Walter Sofronoff sent transcripts and strictly confidential' information to Janet Albrechtsen

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A trove of text messages and emails between Walter Sofronoff and the Australian newspaper columnist Janet Albrechtsen while he headed a review into Bruce Lehrmann's aborted criminal trial have been revealed.

The chain of communications, released by the ACT supreme court on Wednesday, revealed Sofronoff had sent transcripts of inquiry conversations and other strictly confidential" information to Albrechtsen. The Australian columnist sent Sofronoff a meme that likened him to The Wolf, a fixer character in Quentin Tarantino's movie Pulp Fiction. The pair exchanged frequent phone calls, regularly shared documents and phone numbers and lunched together, the documents revealed.

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