Brittany Higgins takes stand in Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial as lawyer warns her evidence will be ‘graphic and distressing’
by Amanda Meade from World news | The Guardian on (#6GQ50)
Court also told Seven Network paid Lehrmann's rent for 12 months to compensate him for two interviews with the Spotlight program
Brittany Higgins has taken the stand in Bruce Lehrmann's defamation trial against Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson at the start of evidence the defence says will be graphic and distressing".
Network Ten's barrister, Matt Collins KC, said Higgins will tell the court about being allegedly sexually assaulted by Lehrmann in senator Linda Reynolds' office in 2019 after a night when she had consumed at least 12 vodkas and was more drunk than she had ever been in her life".
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