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Brittany Higgins has advised a court docket she made secret recordings of conversations with former Coalition minister Michaelia Money and her chief-of-staff Daniel Strive about her sexual assault allegations and distributed them “to as many individuals as doable” for safe-keeping, together with a journalist.
Higgins labored for Money after the 2019 election, having beforehand labored for Linda Reynolds, and alleges one other staffer Bruce Lehrmann raped her in Reynold’s workplace early on March 23, 2019, after a drunken evening out. Lehrmann has pleaded not responsible to a cost of sexual assault and denies having intercourse with Higgins.
Brittany Higgins arriving on the ACT Supreme Courtroom in Canberra on Thursday for the third day of the prison trial.Credit score:Alex Ellinghausen
Beneath questioning from Lehrmann’s barrister Steven Whybrow on the third day of the trial within the ACT Supreme Courtroom, Higgins mentioned she had made the recordings of Money and Strive within the lead-up to her story going public, sending one copy to journalist Samantha Maiden and one other to Emma Webster, of the First Folks’s Meeting of Victoria.
“It was for safekeeping … I used to be attempting to offer them to as many individuals as doable,” Higgins mentioned. “It’s my phrase towards a cupboard minister and the disparity between these two powers is ridiculous.”
