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Former Queensland solicitor-general Walter Sofronoff to lead inquiry into trial of Bruce Lehrmann for alleged rape of Brittany Higgins

A board of inquiry into the conduct of police and prosecutors in the case against former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann, will be led by Walter Sofronoff, who was formerly Queensland's solicitor-general and headed up the state's court of appeal.

The inquiry was announced last year after the ACT's Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shane Drumgold, claimed that police pressured him to abandon the rape trial.

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