A text message exchange between Brittany Higgins and a friend have been shown in court on day two of the trial of Bruce Lehrmann, who is accused of raping her inside a minister's office at Parliament House. FULL STORY: 9News
A jury has heard Higgins "politely rebuffed" his advance and the pair never spoke about the moment again.
In the messages, she wrote that she feared she had lost her job in Linda Reynolds' office and admits the night she "ended up in the ministerial office it didn't play out how I made it".These text messages between Brittany Higgins and a friend discuss the alleged assault.Earlier, the court heard that in a police interview from May 2021, Higgins said Lehrmann "made a pass" at her while the pair were waiting for their respective rides home.
Higgins alleged the incident happened after a staff dinner at The Kingston Hotel, a restaurant near parliament, but said she didn't think too much about it.The jury also heard Higgins thought the rape accusation would not be believed because of the workplace disparity between herself and Lehrmann. On the night of the alleged incident in March 2019, the pair had been out drinking with colleagues and returned to Parliament House on the way home in the early hours of the morning.Former Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann arrives at the ACT Supreme Court on October 5.
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