Brittany Higgins and her partner mocked Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds after she took sick leave from parliament amid intense scrutiny over her handling of her former staffer’s alleged rape, a Perth court has heard.
On the final day of a five-week defamation trial in the WA Supreme Court, lawyers for Senator Reynolds aired a series of several private messages between Ms Higgins and her partner David Sharaz, while also describing the former Liberal staffer’s version of events following her alleged rape as “complete rubbish”.
