Former Liberal party staffer Bruce Lehrmann will stand trial on two counts of rape, alleged to have occurred in his home town of Toowoomba.Former Liberal party staffer Bruce Lehrmann will stand trial on two counts of rape, alleged to have occurred in his home town of Toowoomba.The 29-year-old faces two counts of rape, alleged to have occurred in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, in October 2021.
It was agreed that Lehrmann and the complainant, who cannot legally be named, met at a strip club after both had been drinking alcohol and the complainant had taken cocaine. The pair went on to take cocaine together and, in the early hours of the morning, took a taxi to a Toowoomba home, occupied by a schoolmate of Lehrmann, where the pair engaged in consensual sex.
She alleges she pulled her body away and told him to “stop what you are doing” but that he instead climbed back on top of her saying, “it’s OK, it’s OK,” continuing the unwanted sex before ejaculating inside her. The court was told she made her formal complaint the day after seeing news coverage of the allegations by Brittany Higgins that Lehrmann raped her in parliament house and realising he was the same man who she knew only as Bruce who she alleges raped her the month prior in Toowoomba.
Hoare argued that “even in the absence of memory the complainant is capable of consenting, but just not remembering, those circumstances surrounding the act”, a proposition he said was supported by “internal contradictors” in statements made by the complaint.
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