Brittany Higgins Bruce Lehrmann

The former Liberal staffer told police in a recorded interview it was “possible” he could have acted intimately with Higgins during a night out with ...

“She was almost unfamiliar in her emotional state, she was almost unfamiliar in her character, she was just so frozen in what had happened to her … Asked whether Lehrmann mentioned it was for work purposes, Chamberlain replied, “no, he just said the purpose was to drink”. “He commented that she was good-looking,” Hamer said. Irvine also said Higgins had disclosed the allegation to her during the same week. there was nothing in my mind that said to me that I need to be looking after her”. Fairweather told the jury, Lehrmann “was on the phone, he wasn’t paying attention. I was just sort of ensuring that she got to the office to do what she needed to do at the very least ... Asked by police how intoxicated he believed Higgins was, he said she was “probably about the same”. “It was actually a very good night,” Lehrmann said of the evening. “Absolutely not, because I was in a relationship,” he said. Asked whether Higgins mentioned why she was going back to parliament, Lehrmann replied: “no, it shocked me [about] the timing that she had to do that ... A non-publication order that applied to other evidence in her absence was lifted on Friday.

The court has heard from more than 20 witnesses in the past four days, including Parliament House security guards, cleaners, political staffers, and, ...

“I’d wound up everything, I was ready to go. I attended to some Question Time folders.” He told officers he needed to pick up his apartment keys. In an emergency, call 000. “I've opened the door… it would have been like f****** a log.’” Once inside the ministerial suite, Mr Lehrmann said he turned to the left to his desk and Brittany Higgins turned right into the ministerial office. The accused told officers it was “common for people to go back to Parliament at all hours of the night” for both socialising and work. Fiona Brown told the court Mr Lehmann told her he “came back to the office [that night] to drink some whiskey.” Ms Anderson testified she witnessed Ms Higgins and Mr Lehrmann walk into Parliament in the early hours and was asked to do a welfare check, after Mr Lehrman left, as her colleague told her “something strange was happening.” When she opened the door of the ministerial suite, she said “Ms Higgins was laying on her back completely naked.” He told the court his boss told him “to look for something like a party, like condoms.” He emptied the rubbish, but said he found no evidence.

Brittany Higgins' final day in court was emotionally charged and tearful but her voice was unwavering as she singled out her alleged rapist, Bruce Lehrmann, ...

I don’t know what more to say,” Ms Higgins told the court. “But yes, I was trying to maintain calm because he had a higher station in the office than me. Mr Whybrow focused, through the week, on the moments Ms Higgins told friends and police she was going to medical centres and doctors in the wake of the alleged assault. “He was in there, he was physically violating me, he was in my body,” Ms Higgins said, finishing her answer with “I know”. I don’t know, I was scared.” “Because up until then I was holding it in, holding it in, holding it in, pretending like everything was fine and it wasn’t,” Ms Higgins told the court as her voice rose and she pointed a finger toward Lehrmann.