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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Amanda Meade

Brittany Higgins questions whether she was drugged on night of alleged rape in new court submission

Brittany Higgins
Brittany Higgins has made a final submission to the federal court as part of Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

Brittany Higgins has told the federal court the suggestion by an AFP officer that she might have been drugged on the night she was allegedly raped should have been raised in the defamation trial.

Higgins filed a seven-page submission to the court on Tuesday after being invited by Justice Michael Lee last week to make final submissions concerning her credit before the judgment in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson is handed down on Monday.

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