Lehrmann seeks to halt Toowoomba rape case and claims police ‘illegally obtained’ his lawyers’ phone calls

Former Liberal staffer accused of raping a woman after meeting her at a strip club in Queensland in 2021

Bruce Lehrmann has sought to halt a rape case against him, claiming that police “illegally obtained” his lawyers’ phone calls.

Lehrmann, 30, is accused of raping a woman twice during the morning of 10 October, 2021 after they met at a strip club the previous night in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane.

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