Mr Lehrmann had pleaded not guilty to a charge of sexual intercourse without consent. He was accused of raping Ms Higgins in Minister Linda Reynolds’ office in Parliament House on 23 March 2019 and sat through 12 days of an ACT Supreme Court trial that started in October 2022....
Chief Justice Lucy McCallum later told the 16 jurors Mr Lehrmann’s position was there hadn’t been any sex between him and Ms Higgins and the chief justice thought the central issue to the trial was whether sex had happened at all. Bruce Lehrmann arrives at cour...