{"id":238373,"date":"2025-09-19T07:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238373\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T07:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:24:11","slug":"bruce-lehrmann-likely-to-face-four-day-hearing-in-tasmania-over-motor-vehicle-stealing-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238373\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Lehrmann likely to face four-day hearing in Tasmania over motor vehicle stealing charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann is likely to face a four-day hearing over a motor vehicle stealing charge in Tasmania, which he has pleaded not guilty to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Mr Lehrmann, 30, appeared by phone in the Hobart Magistrates Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He has been charged with stealing a Toyota Prado from Mountain River, in the Huon Valley, on November 20 last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The court was told the hearing will likely take four days, during which 12 witnesses will be called, including petrol station staff and five police officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Complainant Gail Oates, her husband and her son are also listed as witnesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Defence counsel Zali Burrows told the court she will subpoena a media interview given by Ms Oates to Nine News in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Ms Burrows said they intend to compare any discrepancies between this interview and a statutory declaration from Ms Oates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The matter was adjourned to October 31, when a hearing date is likely to be set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann is likely to face a four-day hearing over a motor vehicle stealing charge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":238374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,127708,2332,29418,281,3166,3228,127709,50,74003,3155],"class_list":["post-238373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-australia","tag-bruce-lehrmann","tag-car","tag-charge","tag-court","tag-hobart","tag-law","tag-legal-matter","tag-news","tag-stealing","tag-tasmania"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115229770561645180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}