Police wrap up a nine-month investigation into the alleged sexual assault of former Labor MP Brittany Lauga at a Yeppoon pub last year.
Former Queensland Labor MP Brittany Lauga alleged she was drugged and sexually assaulted during a night out in Yeppoon last year.Queensland police have wrapped up a nine-month investigation into the alleged sexual assault of former Queensland Labor MP Brittany Lauga and have laid no charges.
In a statement at the time, she said she had been to hospital and tests had confirmed the presence of drugs in her system, which she had not taken herself. The former MP also alleged she was approached by other women who had experienced similar incidents during nights out in Yeppoon around the same time.The Queensland Parliamentary Service closed Ms Lauga's electorate office in the weeks following her police report about the matter, after her staff were allegedly harassed and threatened." are two hardworking and passionate women public servants, employed to provide support," Ms Lauga said at the time.
Her parliamentary colleagues, including the then-premier Steven Miles, supported her decision to speak publicly about the alleged assault.
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