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Bruce Lehrmann was indifferent to whether a drunk Brittany Higgins consented or not before he raped her on a senator’s couch at Parliament House, a judge has found. The findings were delivered by Justice Michael Lee on Monday as he handed down judgement in Lehrmann’s defamation case against Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson. “Mr Lehrmann raped Ms Higgins,” he said of the infamous night.
The judge said Higgins had been loose with the truth regarding allegations made to Ten in 2021 that members of the then-Coalition government had sought to silence her in reporting the alleged rape. “’The cover-up allegation was objectively short on facts but long on speculation,” he said. But Justice Lee found that any incorrect statements made to the police in 2019 were not inconsistent with remarks being made by a “genuine victim of sexual assault”.
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