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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Antoun Issa

Afternoon Update: Lehrmann denies trying to get Higgins drunk; Israel-Hamas truce begins; and calls for domestic violence inquiry

Bruce Lehrmann
Bruce Lehrmann faced cross-examination today in day three of his defamation trial. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

Good afternoon. Bruce Lehrmann faced cross examination today in day three of his defamation trial against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson.

The network’s barrister, Matt Collins KC, played extensive CCTV footage of Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins socialising at a bar on the night she alleged he raped her at Parliament House. Lehrmann has always denied the rape allegation and pleaded not guilty in a criminal trial that was later aborted.

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