Bruce Lehrmann trial: jury told they are not ‘answerable to public opinion’ as deliberations begin

ACT chief justice Lucy McCallum sums up case and directs jurors to ignore significant media interest in trial over alleged rape of Brittany Higgins

The jury has begun deliberating in the trial of Bruce Lehrmann, who is accused of raping fellow political staffer and colleague Brittany Higgins in parliament house in the early hours of 23 March 2019.

Chief justice Lucy McCallum summed up the case and concluded her directions to the jury on Wednesday afternoon, instructing them on how they should approach their task of weighing up the almost three weeks of evidence heard in the ACT supreme court.