Unfortunately, Justice Lee determined the exact opposite of your statement.
He separated the rape and the alleged cover up. The alleged cover up claims only surfaced two years after the rape.
Justice Lee found that Linda Reynolds was actually trying to get Fina Brown to force Higgins to go to the police, not stop her. He also found that what she claimed and sign as true on her claim to the government were false statements.
Now when did all of these claims surface, seems to be around the same time as DS arrived on the scene.
