Police did not believe evidence was sufficient to take Bruce Lehrmann to trial, inquiry hears
by Ben Doherty from World news | The Guardian on (#6BV2H)
AFP's Scott Moller says he charged Lehrmann on advice of DPP despite investigators not thinking Brittany Higgins's allegations reached threshold for prosecution
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The police officer who investigated an allegation Bruce Lehrmann raped a colleague in Parliament House has told an inquiry he did not believe there was sufficient evidence to take Lehrmann to trial, but charged him on the advice of the director of public prosecutions.
The AFP's Det Supt Scott Moller oversaw the ACT police's investigation into Brittany Higgins's allegation Lehrmann raped her in the Parliament House office of the then Coalition minister Linda Reynolds in 2019.
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