AusPol / 19 October 2022
Wrapping up the Lehrmann trial
The summing-up process has started, and the 2 sides of former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann’s rape trial have very different versions of what happened on the night of 22 March 2019… ACT prosecutor Shane Drumgold said Lehrmann’s former colleague Brittany Higgins’ claim of assault was credible and pointed to inconsistencies in his account of why he wanted to go to Parliament House after a night out drinking. He told security he was collecting documents but told police he was collecting keys and told his boss he had returned to drink whiskey. What he wanted was to get Higgins there “to get the drunk and vulnerable complainant alone in a room,” Drumgold said. Lehrmann’s lawyer Steven Whybrow started their closing statement, saying he wanted to do it “in the kindest way” to Higgins. “We can’t be satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that she knows what happened” and that there was “no sex. It didn’t happen,” Whybrow said. His closing submission will conclude today.
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