Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyer was ‘pissed off’ by claims senator coached questioning of Brittany Higgins, inquiry told

Suggestion that Linda Reynolds coached cross-examination was an ‘appalling mischaracterisation’, inquiry hears

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Bruce Lehrmann’s defence lawyer, Steven Whybrow, was “pissed off” by suggestions that his cross-examination of Brittany Higgins during Lehrmann’s trial had been coached by Liberal senator Linda Reynolds, an inquiry has heard.

Whybrow is the second witness to give evidence to an independent inquiry into how the justice system handled Higgins’s rape allegations.

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