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Brittany Higgins has damaged her silence with a strong assertion after a choose dominated that she was raped by Bruce Lehrmann.
The previous Liberal Social gathering media advisor, who relocated to France together with her fiancé David Sharaz in December took to X on Saturday afternoon to difficulty a prolonged assertion.
She was 24 when she was raped by her then-colleague at Parliament Home in 2019.
In a shocking twist, Ms Higgins additionally expressed sympathy for the toll the saga has had on her former boss, Senator Linda Reynolds.
‘I used to be raped. No judgement was ever going to alter this fact,’ Ms Higgins started.
‘I lived with the disgrace, humiliation, and concern of what telling my story would imply for my life and profession, like so many different sufferer survivors.
‘I used to be scared I would not be believed or supported.
‘The poisonous tradition in Parliament Home was not one thing I simply imagined.
‘For many years, girls working in Parliament Home haven’t been heard. There was no secure area for them to talk up or elevate severe complaints.
‘I felt compelled to inform my story.’
Ms Higgins identified that hundreds of workers in federal ministers’ workplaces from all sides of politics took half within the Jenkins Evaluation.
‘Their tales, like mine have shone a lightweight on the situations which have fed such a poisonous tradition and have willfully ignored for too lengthy,’ she continued.
Ms Higgins added that her well being, reminiscence and relationships have been impacted by what occurred in 2019.
‘I used to be devastated {that a} rapist was given a nationwide platform to take care of his lies about what occurred,’ she wrote.
Ms Higgins thanked Justice Lee for his ‘trauma knowledgeable’ method to the case.
She additionally acknowledged the ache and harm of her former bosses- Senator Linda Reynolds and former chief of workers Fiona Brown.
Justice Michael Lee dominated on Monday that Bruce Lehrmann had raped Ms Higgins, on the steadiness of possibilities, saying he been ‘hellbent’ on having intercourse together with his former colleague.
Brittany Higgins (pictured together with her companion David Sharaz) has damaged her silence with a strong assertion after a choose dominated that she was raped by Bruce Lehrmann
The 28-year-old stood when the Justice Lee adjourned the matter, saved his head down, and charged from the court docket on the first alternative.
Lehrmann was flanked by his authorized workforce as he left NSW’s Federal Courtroom and made efforts to keep away from a ready throng of reporters and cameramen.
He remained stoney-faced and silent as he was adopted down the road with one cameraman seen falling over onto the pavement amid the chaos.
Moments earlier, Lee discovered that Lehrmann was ‘detached’ as to whether drunk Ms Higgins consented or not earlier than he raped her on a senator’s sofa at Parliament Home in March 2019.
The findings had been delivered on Monday as Justice Lee handed down his judgment in Lehrmann’s defamation case towards Community Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson.
‘Mr Lehrmann raped Ms Higgins,’ he mentioned of the notorious night time in March 2019.
Whereas there was no proof Lehrmann knew that Ms Higgins didn’t consent to the sexual exercise, he was recklessly detached to her rights and was ‘hellbent’ on having intercourse, the choose mentioned.
Earlier on Monday, Justice Lee slammed Lehrmann as being an unreliable, dishonest witness.
‘Mr Lehrmann has no compunction from departing from the reality if he thought it was expedient,’ the choose mentioned.
‘I’m glad that in necessary respects, he advised deliberate lies.’
The 28-year-old was suing Community Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson for defamation over a February 2021 report on The Venture wherein Brittany Higgins claimed he raped her in a Parliament Home workplace nearly two years prior.
Justice Michael Lee on Tuesday dominated that Lerhmann had raped Brittany Higgins, saying he been ‘hellbent’ on having intercourse together with his former colleague
The findings had been delivered on Monday as Justice Lee handed down his judgment in Lehrmann’s defamation case towards Community Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson
Justice Lee described each Lehrmann and Ms Higgins as ‘unreliable historians’ when recounting what occurred on that fateful night time.
The choose mentioned Ms Higgins had been unfastened with the reality relating to allegations made to Ten in 2021 that members of the Coalition authorities on the time had sought to silence her in reporting the alleged rape.
‘The duvet-up allegation was objectively brief on information however lengthy on hypothesis,’ he mentioned.
However Justice Lee discovered that any incorrect statements made to the police in 2019 weren’t inconsistent with remarks being made by a ‘real sufferer of sexual assault’.
Justice Lee mentioned that Lehrmann was recognized by Ten’s report, regardless of denials from the community.
The ex-Liberal staffer claims his repute was ruined and is in search of vital damages.
Ten has defended its reporting, saying claims within the interview had been true and within the public curiosity as they concerned alleged sexual abuse in Parliament Home.
Justice Lee thought of whether or not or not, on the steadiness of possibilities, the alleged sexual assault occurred within the workplace of their then-boss, Senator Linda Reynolds.
Mr Lehrmann at all times denied the sexual assault allegation and a legal case was dropped in 2022, with no findings made towards him.
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