High-profile man accused of rape: prosecutors sifting through ‘thousands of pages’ of alleged victim’s phone data

Lawyer for the accused did not reveal in Toowoomba court if he still plans to seek a suppression order ahead of Queensland law change

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A committal hearing for a high-profile man accused of two charges of rape in Toowoomba has been adjourned for six weeks as prosecutors trawl through phone records of the alleged victim.

The man is accused of two counts of raping a woman in the regional Queensland city west of Brisbane in 2021 in a case that has been inching through committal hearings in the Toowoomba magistrates court since January.

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