Former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins has described feeling “trapped, not human” while her colleague Bruce Lehrmann was allegedly raping her on the couch in former Coalition minister Linda Reynolds’ parliamentary office.
Higgins also told police that as soon as she told Reynolds’ chief of staff, Fiona Brown, four days later, “that’s when the gears shifted, and it became less about me and more political”.Alex Ellinghausen
Asked by a detective how she felt, Higgins replied, “trapped, not human”, adding, “it didn’t feel like it was about me at all”. She recalled that after Lehrmann got up, he looked at Higgins, “and it was a strange moment of just eye contact” before Lehrmann departed.She described the atmosphere in the office on Monday as “very tense”, and that Lehrmann, who occupied a position senior to her, bought her coffee while she was trying to overcompensate by being overly nice to him.
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