Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has called for a forensic expert to examine the phone of a woman he is accused of raping due to claimed discrepancies in prosecution evidence.

Lehrmann, 30, has been committed to face trial in Queensland district court on two counts of rape but has filed an application to permanently halt the matter.

A second download of the alleged victim’s phone produced a report that did not match the first, Lehmann’s solicitor Zali Burrows told Judge Dennis Lynch on Monday.

“Between the first extraction and the second extraction there are some key words missing that were on the statement of facts,” Burrows said.

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The second extraction of data from the alleged victim’s phone was required as the first copy was lost when a detecti

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