‘Untenable’: Barrister on Higgins’ claim
Bruce Lehrmann’s barrister said the prosecution case that his client raped Brittany Higgins is ‘untenable’.
Bruce Lehrmann’s barrister said the prosecution case that his client raped Brittany Higgins is ‘untenable’.
Bruce Lehrmann’s barrister said the prosecution case that his client raped Brittany Higgins is ‘untenable’.
A senator has been pressed about why she texted Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyer as Brittany Higgins gave evidence under cross-examination.
Bruce Lehrmann has always denied raping his former colleague, Brittany Higgins, now a jury has heard his side of the story including how the allegations “rocked his world” and left him on the verge of taking his own life.
The security guard who first found Brittany Higgins in Parliament House after she was allegedly raped has told a jury of the moment she entered the darkened office, it can be revealed, as the Bruce Lehrmann trial emerges from a suppression order.
Then-PM Scott Morrison’s office knew of the alleged rape of former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins less than two weeks after the incident, a court has heard.
Bruce Lehrmann, in his response to a “dear Bruce” termination letter, denied he had gone to Parliament House for “official purposes”. But that’s what he told police.
Brittany Higgins “looked broken” and it seemed “a light had turned off” in her after alleged rape, her mum, former boyfriend and flatmate have told a jury.
As the trial emerges from a suppression order, new evidence in the rape trial of Bruce Lehrmann can be revealed after his accuser, Brittany Higgins finished her appearance in the witness box on Friday.
Bruce Lehrmann told police a very different version of what happened in Parliament House between himself and the woman accusing him of rape, Brittany Higgins.
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