The retrial of former political staffer Bruce Lehrmann over the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins has been aborted and the charges dropped, because of serious concerns about Higgins’ mental health.
“The evidence makes it clear that this is not limited to the harm and rather applies whether or not the complainant is required to enter the witness box.” “The last couple of years have been difficult and unrelenting. While it’s disappointing the trial has ended this way, Brittany’s health and safety must always come first.
“I was required to tell the truth under oath for over a week in the witness stand; I was cross-examined at length. He [Lehrmann] was afforded the choice of staying silent in court, head down in a notebook, completely detached,” Higgins told reporters.“I was required to surrender my telephones, my passwords, messages, photos and my data to him. He was not required to produce his telephone, his passwords, messages, photos or his data.
In a dramatic moment during the first trial, Higgins pointed at Lehrmann from the witness box to say “nothing was fine after what you did to me, nothing”. Morrison apologised to Higgins in the House of Representatives on February 8 “for the terrible things that took place here”. Responding to the first recommendation of the review into parliamentary workplace culture, he said that parliament should have been a place of safety but “turned out to be a nightmare”.
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