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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Doherty

Police did not believe evidence was sufficient to take Bruce Lehrmann to trial, inquiry hears

Scott Moller
Scott Moller told the inquiry there was ‘a significant amount of pressure’ on police to lay charges against Bruce Lehrmann. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

A senior ACT officer who oversaw the police investigation into an allegation Bruce Lehrmann raped a colleague in Parliament House has told an inquiry he did not believe there was sufficient evidence to take Lehrmann to trial, but charged him on the advice of the director of public prosecutions.

The AFP’s Det Supt Scott Moller had oversight of the ACT police’s investigation into Brittany Higgins’s allegation Lehrmann raped her in the Parliament House office of the then Coalition minister Linda Reynolds in 2019.

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