Tag: Injustice in Justice

Shane Drumgold, despite his alleged sins, is an unlikely master villain – Pearls and Irritations

ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold arrives at the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal (ACAT) in Canberra, Monday, May 8, 2023. Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas

In the Sofronoff inquiry, Counsel Assisting, Ms Erin Longbottom went straight for the jugular of Shane Drumgold, prosecutor in the Bruce Lehrmann rape trial. She made mincemeat of him. By the end of her display of complete dominance, he was a shattered wreck. He had withdrawn his suggestions of political interference, softened his criticism of police resistance to a prosecution, and admitted that some statements he had made to the presiding judge were not well-phrased. Report summaries of the Sofronoff inquiry into the ACT Justice system suggest Drumgold was entirely to blame. This is tosh, the more so for being completely over the top.

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