Lehrmann told the Federal Court in Sydney he wanted to 'fight back against the media' after the interviews with Higgins were published in February 2021.
The man previously accused of raping Brittany Higgins has taken the stand in court for the first time, saying he was “outraged”,"angry" and “upset" by media interviews she had done.
"I was a mixture of being upset and angry and I wanted to fight back against the media," Mr Lehrmann said. Ms Higgins - who at the time of the alleged incident, had been working for then Defence minister Linda Reynolds alongside Mr Lehrmann - had initially made a complaint with the AFP in April 2019, but asked police to halt the investigation later that month, two days before former prime minister Scott Morrison called the federal election.
Ms Higgins claimed Mr Lehrmann raped her in Parliament House, in Ms Reynolds' Parliament House office in the early hours of March 23, 2019z The court heard Mr Lehrmann, now a law student, made contact with Mr Korn on the day the interviews ran in 2021 after learning a journalist from The Australian newspaper had contacted his then employer British American Tobacco.
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