Summary
Here’s a rundown of what we heard in the afternoon session:
Bruce Lehrmann was asked about when he first understood he was being accused of raping Brittany Higgins. He denied knowing he was the alleged rapist when he read a news.com.au article by Samantha Maiden, but he knew Higgins had implicated him after a reporter from The Australian contacted him.
Lehrmann also described receiving an anonymous email accusing him of doing something that was going to be embarrassing to him. He told justice Michael Lee that when he read the email, he thought someone was trying to impersonate him, and didn’t take too much notice of the email contents.
And for a full recap of what we heard in the morning, click here.
We’ll be back tomorrow morning with more coverage of the defamation trial against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson.
Our full wrap of today’s defamation trial proceedings is below:
Updated
The court has now adjourned for the day.
