A senior police officer has said she would consider advising her superiors that a standard practice in interviewing sexual assault complainants may be "fraught with significant problems" after admitting one of her interviews could have "hamstrung" parts of a trial.
Australian Federal Police leading senior constable Lucy Evans made a number of damaging admissions during cross examination in an ACT Supreme Court trial on Thursday.
The judge alone trial, beginning on Monday, has heard that a man allegedly committed historical indecent acts on his adopted sister in 1971-75.
