Ten wins case as judge finds Lehrmann raped Higgins
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Lehrmann raped Higgins, Federal Court finds
Bruce Lehrmann knowingly raped an unresponsive Brittany Higgins on a couch in a Parliament House office in March 2019, Justice Michael Lee has found.
The decision means Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson have won their year-long defamation case. Justice Lee upheld their defence that the rape of Ms Higgins at the heart of an episode of The Project that aired in February 2021 was true.
“I consider it more likely than not, in those early hours after a long night of conviviality and drinking, and having successfully brought Ms Higgins back to a secluded place, Mr Lehrmann was hell-bent on having sex with a woman he found sexually attractive,” Justice Lee said.
“In his pursuit of gratification, he did not care one way or another.”
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