Bruce Lehrmann’s legal team is seeking to have an independent forensic IT expert examine the complainant’s phone in his Queensland rape case, amid claims a police hard drive was destroyed and key words were missing.

Lehrmann was committed to stand trial in 2024 over allegations he raped a woman on a drug-fuelled night in 2021 at a nightclub in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane.

He is expected to fight the charges.

Bruce Lehrmann outside the Magistrates Court in Toowoomba in a previous appearance. Credit: Dan Peled / The Sydney Morning Herald

Lehrmann’s legal team earlier this year made an application to have the case thrown out of court.

Defence lawyer Zali Burrows previously told the court a police hard drive that contained a full brief of evidence, copies of witness statements, phone

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