A timeline of the former Liberal staffer’s case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson
In 2021, the Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins made an explosive allegation, claiming she had been raped two years earlier on a minister’s couch in Parliament House.
The media outlets did not name the alleged rapist, but Higgins’ colleague Bruce Lehrmann later claimed he was identifiable and sued news.com.au, Network Ten and its presenter Lisa Wilkinson for defamation.Lehrmann maintains his innocence, and at his criminal trial in 2022 pleaded not guilty to one charge of sexual intercourse without consent, denying that any sexual activity had occurred.
Higgins and Lehrmann are called into separate meetings with Brown and interviewed about the security breach. Lehrmann leaves the office shortly afterwards.Higgins meets with Australian federal police at Belconnen police station and says she was raped, but drops the complaint a week later.Exhibit 19 in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation case: a floor plan of Linda Reynolds’ ministerial suite with the applicant’s markings.
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