Happy hump day! The inquiry into the Bruce Lehrmann case continues to unearth surprising details. Today’s revelation? That the ACT is the least likely jurisdiction in Australia to lay charges in alleged sexual assault cases – six times lower than the national average.
ACT police’s Det Supt Scott Moller, however, rejects the assertion that this influenced the handling of Brittany Higgins’s allegation that she was raped at Parliament House. “The team that work on sex assault cases are a dedicated, professional group of investigators,” he told an inquiry today.
