Former Auburn deputy mayor denies sending text messages and says he was set up as part of a ‘plan of attack’
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In a recorded police interview played in court, the 36-year-old former Auburn deputy mayor earlier accused the woman of sending fake text messages from his phone and concocting the assault allegations as a result of delusions she experienced. While being interviewed in January 2021, Mehajer told Sr Const James McGahon the woman was diagnosed with psychosis and schizophrenia, suffered from PTSD, was fascinated with blood and had a habit of lying.“I don’t want to put her through cross-examination but you will see in the next few months that she is misleading,” he had told police.
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