Photo on The Australian front page ‘risks interfering’ with Lehrmann probe, head of inquiry says

The head of the inquiry into the ACT police investigation of the Bruce Lehrmann allegations said he could not see the ‘proper purpose’ for The Australian’s page one photograph of Shane Drumgold. Photograph: Paul Miller/AAP

The head of the inquiry into the ACT police investigation of rape allegations against Bruce Lehrmann condemned reporting by the Australian as pointless and a risk to “interfering with the course of [the] inquiry”.

In a significantly delayed opening to Monday’s hearings, former Queensland solicitor general Walter Sofronoff KC said the publication of a photo taken of the ACT director of public prosecutions, Shane Drumgold, as he stood in the driveway of his Canberra home appeared entirely unjustified.