Brittany Higgins’ guide was tentatively titled #NotJustADaughter
Bruce Lehrmann has launched a rare assault on Brittany Higgins‘ leaked memoir, slamming it as a piece of ‘fantasy’.
Mr Lehrmann issued the scathing assertion on Monday evening in response to questions on Ms Higgins’ draft guide, tentatively titled #NotJustADaughter.
The raw manuscript, obtained exclusively by Daily Mail Australia, detailed a range of observations and remarks about former MPs, talked about raging Christmas events, the privileges afforded to staffers, and alcohol-fuelled Query Time rituals.
Talking in regards to the months after she went public along with her allegations towards Mr Lehrmann, Ms Higgins also compared herself to monks who suicided by fire during the Vietnam war – noting: ‘I felt like I had lit myself on fireplace. It was a protest of public self-immolation.’
In his assertion on Monday – first reported by Sky Information Australia – Mr Lehrmann stated: ‘I’ve by no means been one for fiction or fantasy novels, I’ll follow non-fiction and books primarily based the truth is.’
‘I can suggest Margaret Cunneen SC’s biography, The Boxing Butterfly’ – he added, referring to a guide by a prime defence barrister and former NSW crown prosecutor.
Every day Mail Australia just isn’t suggesting Ms Higgins made false claims in her draft, merely that Mr Lehrmann denies her claims.
Ms Higgins has all the time maintained her allegations that Mr Lehrmann raped her in former defence minister Linda Reynolds’ Parliament Home workplace in March 2019. Equally, Mr Lehrmann has all the time denied the allegations.
Bruce Lehrmann (pictured) slammed Brittany Higgins leaked guide in an announcement on Monday
His assertion on Monday additionally addressed rumours about his political ambitions, after he up to date his Instagram bio earlier in July to say he was a ‘potential legacy Liberal MP for Wentworth’.
The replace was a swipe at a remark Ms Higgins made throughout a dialog with Lisa Wilkinson in January 2021 – she stated he was a ‘legacy’ Liberal staffer who would ‘finally run for a seat’.
She named the seat of Wentworth as a risk, which is in Sydney’s jap suburbs.
Mr Lehrmann stated on Monday: ‘Whereas I hail from nation NSW I’m flattered and amused with the prospect.’
‘Politics 101 isn’t rule something in or out, that’s why the Prime Minister all the way down to backbench MPs can backflip ten occasions over and get away with it.
Whereas not named within the Lisa Wilkinson interview with Brittany Higgins (pictured collectively), Mr Lehrmann argues his id would have been identified in political circles
‘But when the nice individuals of Wentworth need assistance cleansing up from a protracted and unlucky interval having Malcolm Turnbull and a Teal candidate signify them, then I’m shut by.’
Mr Lehrmann’s trial was aborted in October 2022 on account of jury misconduct and prosecutors later dropped the fees amid considerations in regards to the influence a second trial may have on Ms Higgins’ psychological well being.
He was not named throughout The Challenge interview with Ms Higgins, however launched a defamation go well with over the interview towards the community and Wilkinson in March.
He claims he was defamed as a result of former colleagues and other people in parliamentary circles have been capable of determine him because the alleged rapist.
The previous political staffer can also be suing the ABC for airing an deal with Ms Higgins made to the Nationwide Press Membership.
That case is scheduled for listening to in November.
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