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To additional his level, Drumgold is itemizing all of the cases of Higgins sharing her allegation, together with along with her then-chief-of-staff Fiona Brown and boss, then-defence industries minister Linda Reynolds.
The prosecutor instructed the jury Higgins disclosed the alleged assault within the early hours of March 23, 2019 to Brown throughout a gathering the next Tuesday about her and Lehrmann’s after-hours entry to Parliament Home.
Brown beforehand gave proof Higgins instructed her throughout a gathering on the Thursday that she remembered Lehrmann being on high of her.
As his closing deal with continued, Drumgold mentioned Reynolds, who met with Higgins on Monday, April 1, 2019, “was clearly making an attempt to painting the assembly as a few safety breach”.
Reynolds gave proof on Monday that she’d acquired a bit of extra data after Higgins instructed her of getting wearing a distressed state, and he or she instructed Higgins she wasn’t a counsellor and it was finest if she talked to the AFP.
Drumgold mentioned no matter what the senator needed to acknowledge, she clearly had entry to data that one thing of a sexual nature occurred.
He mentioned Higgins had additionally instructed her then-boyfriend, Ben Dillaway, she didn’t suppose what had occurred to her “was consensual in any respect”.
Drumgold mentioned she had additionally disclosed one thing had occurred to her to colleagues Nikita Irvine, and Chris Payne, who had instructed the jury, “I mentioned, ‘did he rape you?’ She mentioned, ‘I couldn’t have consented, it will have been like f—ing a log’.”