Australia: Brittany Higgins and the disappearing recordings

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'New documents have revealed Brittany Higgins' explanation for why the date of a key photograph of a bruise on her leg did not match the timeline of her rape claims against Bruce Lehrmann.

The papers, released by an ACT government Board of Inquiry into the police and prosecution handling of the case, also reveal Ms Higgins spoke to her then-boyfriend David Sharaz about deleting several files from her phone, which police warned her 'looks deceitful'.

Ms Higgins said those files were the audio of conversations she had recorded 'for personal records' and she 'didn't know if this was ok'.

Ms Higgins had shared with police a photograph showing an apparent large bruise on her thigh, which she said was caused by Lehrmann pinning her down as he allegedly raped her in the office of their defence minister boss Linda Reynolds.

In a legally binding statutory declaration made five days before her explosive interview with Lisa Wilkinson on The Project, Ms Higgins said the picture had been taken on April 3, 2019, 11 days after the alleged attack on March 23.

But digital forensic experts said there was no evidence of it existing on her phone until just a few weeks before the rape allegations went to air in February 2021, almost two years later, and there was no previous mention of it in her text messages.'