How Bruce Lehrmann’s media interviews cost him his anonymity in Toowoomba rape case

Bruce Lehrmann promised to ‘light some fires’ when he gave TV interview in June. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

“Let’s light some fires,” said Bruce Lehrmann in June, during the first of his two-part “bombshell” interviews on Channel Seven’s flagship Spotlight program.

“Everything needs to be out there, in the open, so people can assess this for what it is.”