- Higgins said Lehrmann left after the supposed attack however she “was unable to get up off the sofa” and dropped.
- Lehrmann has consistently denied he assaulted Higgins.
- She woke promptly in the first part of the day in Reynolds’ office with light getting through the blinds, she told the court and was debilitated in the latrine.
Brittany Higgins has told the Government Court she opened up to the world about a charge she had been assaulted in Parliament House by a partner since she would have rather not been “complicit” in that frame of mind up, after she separated in tears giving proof about the evening of the supposed attack.
The previous government Liberal political staff member gave proof on Wednesday for Ten as it protects a criticism suit brought against the organization and columnist Lisa Wilkinson by her previous partner Bruce Lehrmann, who guarantees a February 2021 meeting with Higgins claimed he was at legitimate fault for assault.
Brittany Higgins About Rape Allegation
Higgins, who gave proof the supposed attack occurred in Walk 2019, expressed that by 2021, following reports on related subjects, she felt that she “was unable to be quiet about it any longer”.
By this stage Higgins had likewise made plans to reactivate a police objection that she had recently chosen not to seek after, the court heard.
Higgins expressed that at a gathering on April 1, 2019, after the supposed assault on Walk 23, Reynolds requested that she keep the workplace informed assuming that she at last chose to go to the police.
Higgins said she was “pretty damaged” because the gathering occurred in a similar room as the supposed attack, and she was “totally disassociated; I was a wreck”.
Higgins told the court she was “extremely, intoxicated” in the early long periods of Saturday, Walk 23, 2019, when she joined Lehrmann in an Uber following a Friday night out drinking with partners in Canberra.
Higgins said she sat tight for Lehrmann in the workplace for what felt like quite a while. Her next memory was awakening in Reynolds’ ecclesiastical suite, she said.
Higgins claimed during her proof that Lehrmann endeavored to kiss her prior days she charged he assaulted her in Parliament House and took her telephone “jokingly” when they initially met on Walk 2, 2019, to prevent her from leaving a Canberra bar. He has denied those episodes happened.
Lehrmann’s Demonstration criminal preliminary for rape was cut short in October last year because of attendant wrongdoing and the charge was subsequently dropped out and out amid worries about Higgins’ emotional wellness.
