‘Purpose was to drink’: What Lehrmann told his bosses
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.
Bruce Lehrmann has pleaded not guilty to sexual intercourse with Brittany Higgins without her consent and being reckless to her consent. Mr Lehrmann denies having sex with Ms Higgins in the early hours of March 23, 2019, in a ministerial office in Parliament House.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brittany Higgins has told a jury she taped a phone call with Senator Michaelia Cash about her rape complaint, alleging it was the “weirdest call” of her life while being crossexamined by Bruce Lehrmann’s barrister.
The legal team prosecuting Bruce Lehrmann is headed by a “has been boxer”, who rose from housing commission in Sydney’s west to the peak of the justice system.
Brittany Higgins told police in an interview played in court her memory of the night she was allegedly assaulted was “patchy” due to her level of intoxication.
Brittany Higgins has come face to face with Bruce Lehrmann for the first time in a Canberra courtroom.
CCTV footage of Brittany Higgins skolling a vodka drink has been shown to the jury in Bruce Lehrmann’s rape trial. See the text messages to Higgins’ ex-boyfriend after her alleged assault.
A book deal worth $325,000 was allegedly brokered for Brittany Higgins by Sydney columnist and author Peter FizSimons, who offered to act as her agent, a jury has been told.
A jury has been told Brittany Higgins is ‘unavailable’ to take the stand on Monday in the trial against her alleged rapist.
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