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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Amanda Meade

Brittany Higgins wore dress she was allegedly raped in to Liberal function weeks later to ‘reclaim it’, court hears

Brittany Higgins leaving court
Brittany Higgins leaves the federal court on Friday after a second day in the witness box for the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

Brittany Higgins has told a court she wore the white dress she was allegedly raped in six weeks later to a Liberal function in an attempt to “reclaim it” and “disassociate it from the rape”.

But what was once her “favourite” pencil dress that she “used to wear all the time” was not reclaimed and was never worn again, Higgins told the federal court on Friday.

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