Brittany Higgins has told a court she deleted material from her phone prior to submitting it to police because she had simply wanted to “purge” the “horrible parts of my life”, including images of her former boss, Linda Reynolds, and was concerned about the flow of information to the then home affairs minister Peter Dutton.
The cross-examination of Higgins continued on Friday, when defence barrister Steven Whybrow pressed her on the deletion of material from her phone in 2021, as she prepared to reinstate a police complaint against her former colleague and political staffer Bruce Lehrmann.
