AFP reviewing whether police leaked material from Bruce Lehrmann’s criminal trial

Commissioner Reece Kershaw asked at National Press Club about the leaking of personal text messages from the phone of Brittany Higgins

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The Australian federal police are conducting an internal review to determine whether any officers leaked material or otherwise breached professional standards in handling evidence obtained for the criminal investigation and rape trial of the former ministerial adviser Bruce Lehrmann.

The AFP commissioner, Reece Kershaw, told the National Press Club on Wednesday that an examination of those processes was under way.

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