Having watched much of the Bruce Lehrmann versus Channel 10 case in the public gallery of the Federal Court, I am compelled to note that observations made by the Telegraph’s insightful James Morrow deserve strenuous reinforcing. (“One winner from a case that injured all others, DT”, 17/4). The legion of witnesses paraded into the line of fire of the forensically trap-setting silks were more often than not dissected and left flailing. Yet, to me, two witnesses surely stood out. Firstly, Brittany Higgins’s dad. And secondly, former defence minister Linda Reynolds’s chief of staff Fiona Brown, whom, as Mr Morrow writes in his article, suffered huge damage when in 2021 she was portrayed as an unfeeling political goon who tried to silence Higgins to protect her bosses. Now, she has proved to be honest, insightful, caring of Higgins’s welfare and most undeserving of the accusation that she was part of a cover-up. One must hope that a woman of her palpable decency and calibre is quickly re-employed by the Liberal Party. She is truly the only holder of the beacon of propriety emerging from Judge Lee’s courtroom. Alan Sexton, North Parramatta 18April2024
